Publications
Journal Articles
Pearson, Alannah and Polly, P. David (2024). Temporal lobe evolution in Hominidae and the origin of human lobe proportions. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 185 (4) e25027. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.25027
Pearson, Alannah, Bruner, Emiliano and Polly, P. David (2023). Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180 (4), 768-776. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24712
Pearson, Alannah, Polly, P. David and Bruner, Emiliano (2021). Temporal lobe evolution in Javanese Homo erectus and African Homo ergaster: Inferences from the cranial base. Quaternary International, 603, 5-21. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.048
Hurst, Shawn, Holloway, Ralph, Pearson, Alannah and Bocko, Grace (2021). The significance of chimpanzee occipital asymmetry to hominin evolution. Symmetry, 13 (10) 1862, 10. doi: 10.3390/sym13101862
Pearson, Alannah, Polly, P. David and Bruner, Emiliano (2020). Is the middle cranial fossa a reliable predictor of temporal lobe volume in extant and fossil anthropoids?. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172 (4), 698-713. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24053
Pearson, Alannah, Groves, Colin and Cardini, Andrea (2015). The 'temporal effect' in hominids: Reinvestigating the nature of support for a chimp-human clade in bone morphology. Journal of Human Evolution, 88, 146-159. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.012