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Salvador Moyà-Solà is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Psychology, with a notable focus on Paleontology and Social Psychology as subfields of study.

The scientist's work engages deeply with topics related to evolution and paleontology studies, primate behavior and ecology, and Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology. Additional areas of research include bat biology and ecology studies, amphibian and reptile biology, morphological variations and asymmetry, as well as animal vocal communication and behavior.

Salvador Moyà-Solà has contributed to multiple publications in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Historical Biology
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist display a focus on evolutionary biology and the morphology of primates and other species. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Fossil apes and human evolution," 2021, Science
  • "The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans," 2020, eLife
  • "Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the late Miocene apes Hispanopithecus and Rudapithecus based on vestibular morphology," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "A comparative analysis of the vestibular apparatus in Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: Phylogenetic implications," 2021, Journal of Human Evolution

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Salvador Moyà-Solà's academic production. Frequent co-authors include:

  • David M. Alba
  • Clément Zanolli
  • Sergio Almécija
  • Alessandro Urciuoli
  • Josep Fortuny

The diversity of co-authors reflects interdisciplinary cooperation across evolutionary studies, paleontology, and human evolutionary biology. Moyà-Solà's contributions add to topics involving evolutionary morphology, phylogenetics, and primate ecological behavior.

Best Publications

  • Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain.

    Salvador Moyà-Solà;Meike Köhler;David M. Alba;Isaac Casanovas-Vilar

  • Updated chronology for the Miocene hominoid radiation in Western Eurasia

    Isaac Casanovas-Vilar;David M. Alba;Miguel Garcés;Josep M. Robles

  • First partial face and upper dentition of the Middle Miocene hominoid Dryopithecus fontani from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, NE Spain): taxonomic and phylogenetic implications.

    Salvador Moyà-Solà;Meike Köhler;David M. Alba;Isaac Casanovas-Vilar

  • The Vallparadís section (Terrassa, Iberian Peninsula) and the latest Villafranchian faunas of Europe

    J. Madurell-Malapeira;R. Minwer-Barakat;D.M. Alba;M. Garcés

  • Evidence of hominid-like precision grip capability in the hand of the Miocene ape Oreopithecus

    Salvador Moyà-Solà;Meike Köhler;Lorenzo Rook

  • Mammal extinctions in the Vallesian (Upper Miocene)

    J. Agusti;S. Moya-Sola

  • Can Llobateres: the pattern and timing of the Vallesian hominoid radiation reconsidered

    J. Agustı́;M. Köhler;S. Moyà-Solà;L. Cabrera

  • Los vertebrados fósiles del Abocador de Can Mata (els Hostalets de Pierola, l’Anoia, Cataluña), una sucesión de localidades del Aragoniense superior (MN6 y MN7+8) de la cuenca del Vallès-Penedès. Campañas 2002-2003, 2004 y 2005

    D. M. Alba;S. Moyà-Solà;I. Casanovas-Vilar;J. Galindo

  • Response to Comment on "Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a New Middle Miocene Great Ape from Spain"

    S. Moyà-Solà;M. Köhler;D. M. Alba;I. Casanovas-Vilar

  • New Miocene hominoid specimens from Can Llobateres (Vallès Penedès, Spain) and their geological and paleoecological context

    David R. Begun;Salvador Moyá-Sola;M. Kohler

  • Biochronological, taphonomical, and paleoenvironmental background of the fossil great ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Primates, Hominidae)

    Isaac Casanovas-Vilar;David M. Alba;Salvador Moyà-Solà;Jordi Galindo

  • The Miocene mammal record of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia)

    Isaac Casanovas-Vilar;Anneke Madern;Anneke Madern;David M. Alba;Lluís Cabrera

  • Pleistocene rodents from the Torrent de Vallparadís section (Terrassa, northeastern Spain) and biochronological implications

    Raef Minwer-Barakat;Joan Madurell-Malapeira;David M. Alba;Josep Aurell-Garrido

  • Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the late Miocene of Spain.

    Meike Köhler;Salvador Moyà-Solà;David M. Alba

  • Approach to the Spanish continental Neogene synthesis and paleoclimatic interpretation

    Nieves López Martínez;Jordi Agustí;L. Cabrera;J. P. Calvo Sorando

  • The primate fossil record in the Iberian Peninsula

    J. Marigó;I. Susanna;R. Minwer-Barakat;J. Madurell-Malapeira

  • The European Far West: Miocene mammal isolation, diversity and turnover in the Iberian Peninsula

    Isaac Casanovas‐Vilar;Israel García‐Paredes;David M. Alba;David M. Alba;Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende

  • Spanish Neogene Mammal succession and its bearing on continental biochronology

    Jorge Agustí;Salvador Moyà-Solà

  • Enamel Thickness in the Middle Miocene Great Apes Anoiapithecus, Pierolapithecus and Dryopithecus

    D. M. Alba;J. Fortuny;S. Moyà-Solà

  • Were large carnivorans and great climatic shifts limiting factors for hominin dispersals? Evidence of the activity of Pachycrocuta brevirostris during the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution in the Vallparadís Section (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Iberian Peninsula)

    Joan Madurell-Malapeira;David M. Alba;María-Patrocinio Espigares;Víctor Vinuesa

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Alba
David M. Alba Autonomous University of Barcelona
Miguel Garcés
Miguel Garcés University of Barcelona
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Lluís Cabrera
Lluís Cabrera University of Barcelona
Jorge Morales
Jorge Morales Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
David R. Begun
David R. Begun University of Toronto
Doug M. Boyer
Doug M. Boyer Duke University
Jordi Agustí
Jordi Agustí Rovira i Virgili University
Maria Rita Palombo
Maria Rita Palombo Sapienza University of Rome
Paul Palmqvist
Paul Palmqvist University of Malaga

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