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Leslie C. Aiello

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Archeology

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#357

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Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Leslie Crum Aiello is an American paleoanthropologist and professor emeritus of University College London. She was the president of Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren donated Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research from 2005 to 2017. In 2014, Aiello was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She is currently president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

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Leslie C. Aiello's Published Works

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The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution (1995) (1880)
An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy (1992) (590)
Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language (1993) (557)
Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective (2014) (406)
Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion (2004) (289)
ENERGETICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS HOMO (2002) (255)
Energetic consequences of being a Homo erectus female (2002) (235)
Ontogeny of facial dimorphism and patterns of individual development within one human population. (2006) (195)
Discriminant function analyses in archaeology: are classification rates too good to be true? (2011) (172)
Functional morphology of the evolving hand and foot (1990) (143)
Female Dominance and Maternal Investment in Strepsirhine Primates (1990) (139)
Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy (2014) (132)
Cranial variables as predictors of hominine body mass. (1994) (125)
Early hominin limb proportions. (2002) (121)
The fossil evidence for modern human origins in Africa: a revised view (1993) (121)
Cranial suture closure and its implications for age estimation (1994) (114)
Allometry and the analysis of size and shape in human evolution (1992) (107)
The Origin and Diversification of Language (2017) (100)
Five years of Homo floresiensis. (2010) (98)
Neanderthal Thermoregulation and the Glacial Climate (2003) (87)
Brains and guts in human evolution: the expensive tissue hypothesis (1997) (75)
The palaeoecology of the Upper Ndolanya Beds at Laetoli, Tanzania. (2002) (70)
A comparison of the nariokotome Homo erectus with juveniles from a modern human population. (1999) (67)
Are microscopic ageing techniques more accurate than macroscopic ageing techniques (1993) (66)
Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas (2010) (61)
Morphological and taxonomic affinities of the Olduvai ulna (OH 36). (1999) (57)
Dental microwear ofGriphopithecus alpani (1999) (55)
Tooth wear, Neanderthal facial morphology and the anterior dental loading hypothesis. (2012) (54)
Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (2018) (50)
Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex: In defense of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis (2001) (48)
Taxonomic and functional implications of mandibular scaling in early hominins. (1998) (47)
FEMALE PROTO-SYMBOLIC STRATEGIES (1997) (45)
The natural history of deciduous tooth attrition in hominoids (1991) (40)
A Prisoner’s Dilemma Model of the Evolution of Paternal Care (2000) (40)
An Evolutionary Model for Feeding and Positional Behaviour (1984) (39)
Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form (2011) (38)
On Diet, Energy Metabolism, and Brain Size in Human Evolution (1996) (35)
In Defense of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: Ontogeny, Maternal Care and Organ Size (2001) (33)
Terrestriality, bipedalism and the origin of language (1996) (33)
Technical note: A new method for measuring long bone curvature using 3D landmarks and semi-landmarks. (2010) (33)
A technique for establishing the identity of ‘isolated’ fossil hominin limb bones (1998) (32)
Family fortunes (1995) (30)
Human Biology and the Origins of Homo (2012) (29)
The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions (2014) (29)
The foundations of human language (1998) (27)
Assessing exact randomization methods for determining the taxonomic significance of variability in the hominin fossil record (2000) (26)
Fetal and infant head circumference sexual dimorphism in primates. (2005) (26)
Dental microwear of Griphopithecus alpani. (1999) (25)
Palaeoanthropology: Our newest oldest ancestor? (2001) (24)
Studying extant species to model our past. (2010) (21)
Variable but singular (1994) (18)
Glottogenesis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens: The Evidence for and Implications of a Late Origin of Vocal Language [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (17)
Laser Scanning and Paleoanthropology (1998) (16)
Politics of the Urban Poor: Aesthetics, Ethics, Volatility, Precarity (2015) (15)
Laser Scanning and Palaeoanthropology: an example from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1998) (15)
Fossils, Feet and the Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion (2004) (14)
The australopithecines in review (2000) (10)
An Investigation Into the Degree of Hallux Abduction of the OH8 Foot (1999) (9)
The Wenner‐Gren Symposium Series (2010) (9)
The Evolution of Social Organisation (1999) (9)
The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas (2011) (8)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN – BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION AND THE POSTCRANIAL SKELETON (1990) (7)
Human evolution: From forelimbs to two legs (2000) (6)
Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Contemporary Biomedicine (2013) (6)
Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age (2013) (6)
Engaged anthropology: diversity and dilemmas. Wenner-Gren symposium (2010) (5)
John Napier Memorial Symposium Primates in Evolution (1992) (4)
Joint shape: a criterion for establishing the identity of 'isolated' fossil hominid limb bones (1998) (4)
3D morphometrics and the evolution of bipedality (2003) (4)
CHAPTER SEVEN – THE MICROANATOMY AND DEVELOPMENT OF TEETH (1990) (3)
The Natural History Reader in Evolution. (1988) (3)
Thumbs up for our early ancestors. (1994) (3)
Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking (2010) (3)
Early hominin limb proportions: Is 'Lucy' significantly different from her 'children'? (2000) (2)
How many species at Pasalar? A study in molar morphology (2000) (2)
Fire and the Genus Homo (2017) (2)
The Wenner-Gren Foundation: Supporting Anthropology for 75 Years (2016) (2)
THE HOMINOID FOOT (1990) (2)
CHAPTER NINETEEN – BONES, MUSCLES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE LOWER LIMB (1990) (2)
Response to Deane and Kremer's comment: 3D, or not to 3D. (2011) (2)
The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks (2012) (2)
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE – THE HOMINOID FEMUR (1990) (2)
Human Biology and the Origins of Homo (2012) (2)
An integrated perspective on the origin and evolution of Homo (2016) (1)
CHAPTER TWENTY – THE HOMINOID PELVIS (1990) (1)
Reintegrating Anthropology: From Inside Out (2016) (1)
Discovering the Origins of Mankind (1982) (1)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN – THE HOMINOID THORAX AND VERTEBRAL COLUMN (1990) (1)
CHAPTER EIGHT – HOMINOID TOOTH MORPHOLOGY (1990) (1)
JHE 50th anniversary. (2022) (1)
The Ontogeny of Sexual Dimorphism in the Hyoid Bone (1999) (1)
Palaeoanthropology. Variable but singular. (1994) (1)
The health of physical anthropology in Britain (1978) (1)
CHAPTER TWELVE – THE CERVICAL SPINE AND SUPPORT OF THE HEAD (1990) (1)
New Media, New Publics? (2017) (1)
On analysis of shape and strength in the long bones of higher primates. (1981) (1)
Letter from the President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2011) (1)
HOAN Circular Newsletter No (2019) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE – THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE HOMINOID MANDIBLE AND CRANIUM (1990) (0)
CHAPTER SIX – THE MASTICATORY SYSTEM OF HOMINOIDS (2002) (0)
2 The evolution of social organization (1999) (0)
Reply to Krantz (1994) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – THE HOMINOID HAND (1990) (0)
Michael Herbert Day (1927–2018) (2018) (0)
Evolving humanity, emerging worlds (2013) (0)
Dietary Reconstructions of the Middle and Late Miocene Ungulate Communities in the Siwaliks (2007) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGY JOURNAL EDITORS’ DISCUSSION MEETING (2016) (0)
The Wenner-Gren Foundation and engaged anthropology (2015) (0)
Wenner-Gren Foundation News (2009) (0)
The expensive tissue hypothesis revisited (1998) (0)
Systematics of Humankind. Palma 2000: an international working group on systematics in human paleontology (2000) (0)
The Life and Death of the Secret (2015) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR – THE BONES OF THE SKULL (1990) (0)
Is red meat essential for humankind? Responses to Adrian Peace in this issue (2008) (0)
First Edition Foreword: The Development of Juvenile Osteology (2016) (0)
How to Write a Grant Proposal: An Introduction to Grants and Programs at the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation (2012) (0)
CHAPTER ELEVEN – THE FACIAL SKELETON OF HOMINOIDS (1990) (0)
IS RED MEAT ESSENTIAL FOR HUMANKIND (2008) (0)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO – THE HOMINOID KNEE JOINT AND LOWER LEG (1990) (0)
Walking through human evolution (2021) (0)
The Wenner‐Gren Foundation: Then and Now (2010) (0)
Stephen C. Cunnane, Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution, World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005 (368 pp., Hardback), US$38/£22, ISBN 981-256-191-9. (2006) (0)
Chapter 1.5.6. Neandertals (2007) (0)
Letter from the President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2011) (0)
CHAPTER THREE – THE MICROANATOMY OF MUSCLE AND BONE (1990) (0)
The Wenner-Gren Foundation: Then and Now Going Home: An Anthropological Memoir (2010) (0)
Announcement: Open Access for CA Supplementary Issues (2010) (0)
CHAPTER NINE – THE INTRACRANIAL REGION (1990) (0)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – THE ANATOMY OF THE VOCAL TRACT (1990) (0)
Wenner-Gren Foundation Funding for Archaeology (2017) (0)
CHAPTER ONE – AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSIFICATION, PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION AND THE FOSSIL RECORD (1990) (0)
CHAPTER TEN – THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN AND HOMINOID ENDOCASTS (1990) (0)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – THE HOMINOID ARM (1990) (0)
Erratum to ‘Early hominin limb proportions’(Journal of Human Evolution 43 (2002) 529–548) (2003) (0)
Wenner-Gren Foundation News: Important Program Changes (2009) (0)
Historical biogeography of the gibbons. (2000) (0)
Foreword: The Development of Juvenile Osteology (2000) (0)
CHAPTER TWO – ANATOMICAL NOMENCLATURE (1990) (0)

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