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| Daniel E LiebermanSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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The evolution and development of cranial form in HomosapiensDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:1134-9. 2002..The existence of these autapomorphies supports the hypothesis that AMHS is a distinct species from taxa of "archaic" Homo (e.g., Homo neanderthalensis)...
Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runnersDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 463:531-5. 2010....- Spatial packing, cranial base angulation, and craniofacial shape variation in the mammalian skull: testing a new model using miceDaniel E Lieberman
Departments of Anthropology and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Anat 212:720-35. 2008..The results illustrate the degree to which the cranial base is centrally embedded within the covariation structure of the craniofacial complex as a whole... - What we can learn about running from barefoot running: an evolutionary medical perspectiveDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Exerc Sport Sci Rev 40:63-72. 2012..Because humans evolved to run barefoot, a barefoot running style that minimizes impact peaks and provides increased proprioception and foot strength, is hypothesized to help avoid injury, regardless of whether one is wearing shoes... 
The evolution of marathon running : capabilities in humansDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology and Organismic, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Sports Med 37:288-90. 2007..Human endurance running performance capabilities compare favourably with those of other mammals and probably emerged sometime around 2 million years ago in order to help meat-eating hominids compete with other carnivores...- A geometric morphometric analysis of heterochrony in the cranium of chimpanzees and bonobosDaniel E Lieberman
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 52:647-62. 2007.... - The human gluteus maximus and its role in runningDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Exp Biol 209:2143-55. 2006.... - Testing hypotheses about tinkering in the fossil record: the case of the human skullDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 302:284-301. 2004..This kind of phenotype-to-genotype approach is a useful and important complement to more standard genotype-to-phenotype approaches, and may help to identify candidate genes involved in the origin of modern human craniofacial form... - Effects of food processing on masticatory strain and craniofacial growth in a retrognathic faceDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Hum Evol 46:655-77. 2004..The results support the hypothesis that food processing techniques have led to decreased facial growth in the mandibular and maxillary arches in recent human populations... - Optimization of bone growth and remodeling in response to loading in tapered mammalian limbsDaniel E Lieberman
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Exp Biol 206:3125-38. 2003..As animals age, periosteal modeling rates decline and Haversian remodeling rates increase, but moderate levels of mechanical loading stimulate neither process significantly... - Control and function of arm swing in human walking and runningHerman Pontzer
Department of Anthropology, Washington University, 119 McMillan Hall, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA
J Exp Biol 212:523-34. 2009.... - Effects of footwear and strike type on running economyDaniel P Perl
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 44:1335-43. 2012..This study tests if running economy differs in minimal shoes versus standard running shoes with cushioned elevated heels and arch supports and in forefoot versus rearfoot strike gaits... - Variation in estradiol level affects cortical bone growth in response to mechanical loading in sheepMaureen J Devlin
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Exp Biol 210:602-13. 2007..Efforts to model the relationship between environmental strain and bone morphology should include the effects of physiological variation in hormone levels... - Walking, running and the evolution of short toes in humansCampbell Rolian
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Exp Biol 212:713-21. 2009..The increased mechanical cost associated with long toes in running suggests that modern human forefoot proportions might have been selected for in the context of the evolution of endurance running... - The aging of Wolff's "law": ontogeny and responses to mechanical loading in cortical boneOsbjorn M Pearson
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87198 1086, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol . 2004..Efforts to infer function from shape in the human skeleton should be based on biomechanical and developmental models that are experimentally tested and validated... - Foot strike and injury rates in endurance runners: a retrospective studyAdam I Daoud
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 44:1325-34. 2012..This retrospective study tests if runners who habitually forefoot strike have different rates of injury than runners who habitually rearfoot strike... - The evolutionary developmental biology of tinkering: an introduction to the challengeDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Novartis Found Symp 284:1-19; discussion 110-5. 2007.... - Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal homininsKatherine K Whitcome
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 450:1075-8. 2007..Similarly dimorphic morphologies in fossil vertebrae of Australopithecus suggest that this adaptation to fetal load preceded the evolution of Homo... - A Wolff in sheep's clothing: trabecular bone adaptation in response to changes in joint loading orientationMeir M Barak
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
Bone 49:1141-51. 2011..Overall, these results demonstrate that trabecular bone dynamically adjusts and realigns itself in very precise relation to changes in peak loading direction, indicating that Wolff's law is not only accurate but also highly sensitive... - Predicting long bone loading from cross-sectional geometryDaniel E Lieberman
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Am J Phys Anthropol 123:156-71. 2004..In addition, cross-sectional properties do not necessarily provide reliable data on the orientations of loads to which bones are subjected... - The effect of humeral torsion on rotational range of motion in the shoulder and throwing performanceNeil Thomas Roach
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Anat 220:293-301. 2012.... - Mouse models and the evolutionary developmental biology of the skullBenedikt Hallgrimsson
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy and the McCaig Bone and Joint Insitute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada Department of Anthropology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA, 02138, USA
Integr Comp Biol 48:373-84. 2008..We illustrate this approach by applying the analysis of craniofacial variation in mouse mutant models to primate and human evolution... - The development of sex differences in digital formula from infancy in the Fels Longitudinal StudyMatthew H McIntyre
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:1473-9. 2005..Our results strongly encourage the further use of finger length ratios as markers of perinatal testosterone action...