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, 1-19. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.25027
Labra, Nicole, Mounier, Aurélien, Leprince, Yann, Rivière, Denis, Didier, Mélanie, Bardinet, Eric, Santin, Mathieu D., Mangin, Jean François, Filippo, Andréa, Albessard-Ball, Lou, Beaudet, Amélie, Broadfield, Douglas, Bruner, Emiliano, Carlson, Kristian J., Cofran, Zachary, Falk, Dean, Gilissen, Emmanuel, Gómez-Robles, Aida, Neubauer, Simon, Pearson, Alannah, Röding, Carolin, Zhang, Yameng and Balzeau, Antoine (2023). What do brain endocasts tell us? A comparative analysis of the accuracy of sulcal identification by experts and perspectives in palaeoanthropology. Journal of Anatomy, 244 (2), 274-296. doi: 10.1111/joa.13966
Pearson, Alannah and Polly, P. David (2023). Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30 (3), 683-694. doi: 10.1007/s10914-023-09664-6
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, 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