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According to Wikipedia, Ralph Leslie Holloway, Jr. is a physical anthropologist at Columbia University and research associate with the American Museum of Natural History. Since obtaining his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, Holloway has served as a professor of anthropology at Columbia. Holloway's interests lie in craniology, producing endocasts, primate behavior, biology of gender, sexual dimorphism in the corpus callosum, and other topics.

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Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum. (1982) (711)
Asymmetry of chimpanzee planum temporale: humanlike pattern of Wernicke's brain language area homolog. (1998) (439)
Culture: A Human Domain (1969) (283)
Brain endocast asymmetry in pongids and hominids: some preliminary findings on the paleontology of cerebral dominance. (1982) (273)
The Human Fossil Record (2004) (240)
Dendritic branching: some preliminary results of training and complexity in rat visual cortex. (1966) (211)
Brain shrinkage in chronic alcoholics: a pathological study. (1985) (204)
Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum: an extension and replication study. (1986) (203)
Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans (2015) (179)
Human paleontological evidence relevant to language behavior. (1983) (176)
On the phylogenetic position of the pre-Neandertal specimen from Reilingen, Germany. (1998) (167)
The evolution of the primate brain: some aspects of quantitative relations. (1968) (161)
Cognitive Imitation in Rhesus Macaques (2004) (160)
Revisiting the South African Taung australopithecine endocast: The position of the lunate sulcus as determined by the stereoplotting technique (1981) (145)
The Skull Of Australopithecus Afarensis (2004) (141)
Cranial Capacity, Neural Reorganization, and Hominid Evolution: A Search for More Suitable Parameters (1966) (140)
Variability of Broca's area homologue in African great apes: implications for language evolution. (2003) (137)
The casts of fossil hominid brains. (1974) (137)
Within-species brain-body weight variability: a reexamination of the Danish data and other primate species. (1980) (131)
Cerebral brain endocast pattern of Australopithecus afarensis hominid (1983) (129)
PALEONEUROLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE ORIGINS (1976) (114)
Culture, symbols, and human brain evolution: A synthesis (1981) (114)
Volumetric and asymmetry determinations on recent hominid endocasts: Spy I and II, Djebel Ihroud I, and the Sale Homo erectus specimens, with some notes on Neanderthal brain size. (1981) (110)
A bivariate approach to the widening of the frontal lobes in the genus Homo. (2010) (108)
Sexual dimorphism of the human corpus callosum from three independent samples: relative size of the corpus callosum. (1993) (103)
Brain endocasts - the paleoneurological evidence (2004) (101)
Evolution of the brainstem orofacial motor system in primates: a comparative study of trigeminal, facial, and hypoglossal nuclei. (2005) (97)
Cortical Orofacial Motor Representation in Old World Monkeys, Great Apes, and Humans (2004) (89)
Indonesian "Solo" (Ngandong) endocranial reconstructions: some preliminary observations and comparisons with Neandertal and Homo erectus groups. (1980) (87)
The Failure of the Gyrification Index (GI) to Account for Volumetric Reorganization in the Evolution of the Human Brain (1992) (86)
Sex differences in the fetal human corpus callosum. (1986) (82)
The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias (2011) (80)
OTHER: The Natural History of Aggression: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the British Museum (Natural History), London, from 21 to 22 October 1963. J. D. Carthy and F. J. Ebling, The Nature of Human Conflict. Elton B. McNeil (1966) (77)
Endocast of Sambungmacan 3 (Sm 3): A new Homo erectus from Indonesia (2001) (76)
Evolution of Specialized Pyramidal Neurons in Primate Visual and Motor Cortex (2003) (73)
Toward a synthetic theory of human brain evolution (1996) (73)
The Indonesian Homo erectus Brain Endocasts Revisited (1981) (71)
Variations and asymmetries in regional brain surface in the genus Homo. (2012) (71)
The Taung endocast and the lunate sulcus: a rejection of the hypothesis of its anterior position. (1984) (69)
The Human Brain Evolving: A Personal Retrospective (2008) (69)
Anatomical brain asymmetries in New World and Old World monkeys: stages of temporal lobe development in primate evolution. (1988) (68)
New australopithecine endocast, SK 1585, from Swartkrans, South Africa (1972) (67)
The endocast of the Omo L338y‐6 Juvenile Hominid: gracile or robust Australopithecus? (1981) (66)
Chapter IV – Brain Size, Allometry, and Reorganization: Toward a Synthesis (1979) (64)
Is prefrontal white matter enlargement a human evolutionary specialization? (2005) (64)
Posterior lunate sulcus in Australopithecus africanus: was Dart right? (2004) (63)
Australopithecine Endocast (Taung Specimen, 1924): A New Volume Determination (1970) (62)
Cranial capacity and neuron number: a critique and proposal. (1966) (60)
Morphology and histology of chimpanzee primary visual striate cortex indicate that brain reorganization predated brain expansion in early hominid evolution. (2003) (60)
Brief communication: how much larger is the relative volume of area 10 of the prefrontal cortex in humans? (2002) (58)
Endocranial volumes of early African hominids, and the role of the brain in human mosaic evolution (1973) (57)
On Depiction and Language (1989) (56)
Endocast morphology of Hadar hominid AL 162–28 (1986) (55)
The Evolution of the Advanced Hominid Brain [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (54)
A Bivariate Approach to the Variation of the Parietal Curvature in the Genus Homo (2011) (54)
Tools and Teeth: Some Speculations Regarding Canine Reduction1 (1967) (53)
Early Hominid Endocasts: Volumes, Morphology, and Significance for Hominid Evolution (1975) (53)
THE OLDOWAN : CASE STUDIES INTO THE EARLIEST STONE AGE (2012) (52)
Endocast morphology of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa (2018) (52)
The Relativity of Relative Brain Measures and Hominid Mosaic Evolution (1982) (51)
Exploring the dorsal surface of hominoid brain endocasts by stereoplotter and discriminant analysis. (1981) (50)
Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. Harry J. Jerison. Academic Press, New York, 1973. xiv, 482 pp., illus. $25 (1974) (50)
New Endocranial Values for the East African Early Hominids (1973) (50)
The Relevance of Endocasts for Studying Primate Brain Evolution (1978) (50)
A neurochemical hypothesis for the origin of hominids (2018) (48)
Anatomical brain asymmetry in monkeys: frontal, temporoparietal, and limbic cortex in Macaca. (1989) (47)
Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution (2017) (43)
New Endocranial Values for the Australopithecines (1970) (43)
First description of the Cro-Magnon 1 endocast and study of brain variation and evolution in anatomically modern Homo sapiens (2013) (42)
Primate aggression, territoriality, and xenophobia : a comparative perspective (1974) (41)
Variations in size, shape and asymmetries of the third frontal convolution in hominids: paleoneurological implications for hominin evolution and the origin of language. (2014) (38)
Evolution of the Brain, in Humans – Paleoneurology (2009) (38)
Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia (2020) (37)
Brain structure variation in great apes, with attention to the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) (2004) (36)
Planum parietale of chimpanzees and orangutans: a comparative resonance of human-like planum temporale asymmetry. (2005) (34)
OH-65: The earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record. (2016) (32)
A paleoneurological survey of Homo erectus endocranial metrics. (2015) (32)
Neuroanatomical Basis of Facial Expression in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans (2003) (32)
Cortical Orofacial Motor Representation in Old World Monkeys, Great Apes, and Humans (2004) (30)
Validation of plaster endocast morphology through 3D CT image analysis. (2007) (30)
Craniofacial Morphology of Pan paniscus (1977) (28)
Craniometric ratios of microcephaly and LB1, Homo floresiensis, using MRI and endocasts (2011) (26)
Head to head with Boas: Did he err on the plasticity of head form? (2002) (26)
The Evolution of the Hominid Brain (2013) (25)
The O.H. 7 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) hominid partial brain endocast revisited. (1980) (23)
Correction: The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias (2011) (21)
Brain, Evolution of (2001) (20)
Some additional morphological and metrical observations on Pan brain casts and their relevance to the Taung endocast. (1988) (20)
Virtual Assessment of the Endocranial Morphology of the Early Modern European Fossil Calvaria From Cioclovina, Romania (2011) (19)
Structural reduction through the "probable mutation effect". A critique with questions regarding human evolution. (1966) (19)
Corpus callosum in sexually dimorphic and nondimorphic primates. (1992) (18)
Krapina and Saccopastore: Endocranial Morphology in the Pre-Wrmian Europeans (2006) (17)
Does allometry mask important brain structure residuals relevant to species-specific behavioral evolution? (2001) (17)
Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex: Revisiting australopithecine visual striate cortex: newer data from chimpanzee and human brains suggest it could have been reduced during australopithecine times (2001) (17)
New high-resolution computed tomography data of the Taung partial cranium and endocast and their bearing on metopism and hominin brain evolution (2014) (16)
EVOLUTION OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR (1978) (16)
On Falk's 1989 accusations regarding Holloway's study of the Taung endocast: a reply. (1991) (15)
Tomographic analysis of the Daka calvaria (2009) (14)
The Pleistocene Epoch and the Evolution of Man [and Comments and Reply] (1968) (14)
A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China. (2011) (14)
On the Making of Endocasts: The New and the Old in Paleoneurology (2018) (13)
The endocast of the one-million-year-old human cranium from Buia (UA 31), Danakil Eritrea. (2016) (13)
Frontal Brain Expansion During Development Using MRI and Endocasts: Relation to Microcephaly and Homo floresiensis (2013) (12)
SOME QUESTIONS ON PARAMETERS OF NEURAL EVOLUTION IN PRIMATES (1969) (12)
THE EASTERN OLDUVAI BASIN DURING LOWERMOST BED II TIMES (2012) (11)
The Evolving Brain (1973) (10)
Technical note: the midline and endocranial volume of the Taung endocast. (2011) (10)
Cranial Capacity of the Hominine from Olduvai Bed I (1965) (10)
Relationship of squamosal suture to asterion in pongids (Pan): relevance to early hominid brain evolution. (1992) (10)
More on Culture as a Human Domain (1971) (9)
Endocranial Morphology of A.L. 444-2 (2004) (9)
Brain Fossils: Endocasts (2009) (9)
Language and tool making are similar cognitive processes (2012) (9)
Missing Omo L338y‐6 occipital‐marginal sinus drainage pattern: Ground sectioning, computer tomography scanning, and the original fossil fail to show it (2002) (8)
A note on sagittal cresting. (1962) (8)
The O.H.7 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) parietal fragments and their reconstruction: a reply to Wolpoff. (1983) (7)
Evolution of the Brain: In Humans – Specializations in a Comparative Perspective (2009) (7)
In the mind's eye: Multidisciplinary approaches to the evolution of human cognition (2003) (6)
African Genesis: The issue of brain reorganisation in Australopithecus and early hominids: Dart had it right (2012) (5)
Evidence for POT expansion in early Homo : A pretty theory with ugly (or no) paleoneurological facts (1995) (5)
Another primate brain fiction: Brain (cortex) weight and homogeneity (1993) (4)
The Parietal Lobe in Early Hominid Evolution: Newer Evidence from Chimpanzee Brains (2001) (4)
Methods and Materials of Endocast Analysis (2005) (4)
Hominid Brain Volume (1999) (4)
Reply to Falk and Clarke on Taung virtual endocast midline and volume. (2012) (4)
Metopism and early human brain evolution (2013) (3)
A comparative study of the endocasts of OH 5 and SK 1585: Implications for the paleoneurology of eastern and southern African Paranthropus. (2021) (3)
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence. By Carl Sagan. Random House, New York. 1977. 263 pp., figures, glossary, bibliography, index. $8.95 (cloth) (1979) (3)
Homo naledi posterior endocasts and their significance for understanding brain reorganization (2017) (3)
In the trenches with the corpus callosum: Some redux of redux (2017) (3)
Falk's radiator hypothesis (1990) (3)
Cranial Capacity of the Olduvai Bed I Hominine (1966) (3)
The role of human social behavior in the evolution of the brain (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 43, 1973). (1975) (3)
Evolution of Brain and Behavior@@@Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates.@@@Evolution, Brain and Behavior: Persistent Problems. (1978) (2)
Erratum: Missing Omo L338y-6 occipital-marginal sinus drainage pattern: Ground sectioning, computer tomography scanning, and the original fossil fail to show it (Anatomical Record (2002) 266 (249-257)) (2002) (2)
Stereoplotting Hominid Brain Endocasts : Some Preliminary Results (1980) (2)
Chapter 17 – Brain Evolution (2015) (2)
The New and Old in Hominid Brain Evolution: Why Paleoneurology Needs the Lunate Sulcus (2015) (2)
Relative size of the human corpus callosum redux: Statistical smoke and mirrors? (1998) (2)
Was a manual gesturing stage really necessary? (2003) (2)
Brain function and Broca's Cap: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies (2016) (2)
Brain Evolution and Endocasts: Introduction (2005) (2)
Culture: A Human Domain (1992) (2)
Endocasts of Early Hominids (2005) (2)
The human brain in figures and tables: A quantitative handbook. By S. M. Blinkov and I. I. Glezer. Basic Books, New York. 482 pp. and 305 tables. 1968. $25.00 (1968) (2)
The New and the Old in Hominid Brain Evolution, Part II: Why Paleoneurology Needs A Chimpanzee Brain Atlas (2015) (1)
Hominid Endocasts: Some General Notes (2005) (1)
Elliot Smith, G. (2018) (1)
Homo naledi’s frontal lobe: Modern in form, ancestral in size (2017) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior. Philip Lieberman. (1992) (1)
Introduction: Paleoneurology, Resurgent! (2015) (1)
A reply and critique of the Conroy and Smith (2007) prediction of fossil primate brain component sizes. (2007) (1)
The Significance of Chimpanzee Occipital Asymmetry to Hominin Evolution (2021) (1)
Correspondence: Referendum on Darkness in EI Dorado and Danger to Immunization Campaigns (2003) (1)
Correspondence: Holloway Denies Label (2000) (1)
14. Tomographic Analysis of the Daka Calvaria (2019) (1)
New Micro-CT Scan of the Imbedded Prefrontal of the Taung endocast (2015) (1)
Modern Human Variation in Brain Size: Implications for the Dmanisi Hominins and other Fossil Taxa (2017) (1)
New 3D automatic methods for the analysis of the endocranial shape and its relationship with ectocranial structures: assessment and preliminary experiments (2011) (1)
The Great APE Aging Project: A Resource for Comparative Study of Behavior, Cognition, Health, and Neurobiology (2002) (1)
Global patterns of human orbit size: Implications for Neandertals (2014) (1)
On Culture as a Human Domain (1970) (0)
: Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence . Harry J. Jerison. ; Human Behavior and Brain Function . Harvey J. Widroe. ; Violence and the Brain . Vernon H. Mark, Frank R. Ervin. (1976) (0)
The endocast from Dana Aoule North (DAN5/P1): A 1.5 million year-old human braincase from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. (2023) (0)
Imitation, Autism & Theory of Mind: A comparison of the copying abilities of autistic and normally developing 3 & 4 year-old children on 3 social learning conditions using the simultaneous chaining task (2003) (0)
Book Review:Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues Don Scarborough, Saul Sternberg (1999) (0)
More on Culture as a Human Domain (1973) (0)
A.L. 444-2: The Skull as a Whole (2004) (0)
I. Primate Taxonomy and Anatomy: The Human Brain. 1955. Produced by John T. Bobbitt (1978) (0)
TITLE : A paleoneurological survey of Homo erectus endocranial metrics 2 3 (2016) (0)
Is the Broca's cap asymmetric in Hominids? First quantification of the shape of the 3rd frontal convolution on endocasts (2016) (0)
Evolution of the genus Homo. By William Howells. 188 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. Addison‐Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1973. $2.95 (paper) (1975) (0)
Correspondence: Biological Anthropology at Columbia (2002) (0)
Keeping up with hominoid phylogeny. A Review of New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry, edited by R.L Ciochon and R.S. Corruccini. New York, Plenum Press, 1983, 888 pp., $95 (1984) (0)
PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2018) (0)
Evolution of the human brain (1996) (0)
LIMITED SERVICE TEST OF SMALL ARMS WEAPONS SYSTEMS (SAWS) FOR USE AS INDIVIDUAL WEAPONS BY ARMY AIRCRAFT CREW MEMBERS (1965) (0)
Appendix 2: Statistical Analyses of Endocranial Volumes by Taxa (2005) (0)
On the brain and human status (1975) (0)
E Evolution of the Brain , in Humans – (2009) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Evolutionary Anthropology: A Reader in Human Biology. Hermann K. Bleibtreu (1970) (0)
Professor Holloway replies (1976) (0)
The way to modern man. An Introduction to human evolution. By Fred T. Adams. 284 pp., 25 figs., index. Teachers College Press, New York. 1968. $7.50 (1970) (0)
Asymmetry of Broca’s cap using GIS (2016) (0)
Language and species, Derek Bickerton. University Chicago Press, Chicago (1991), 297 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-226-04610-9 (1992) (0)
Biological Anthropology: Comparative Primate Biology, Volume 4: Neurosciences. Horst D. Steklis and J. Erwin, eds (1989) (0)
Physical:The Principles of Cerebral Dominance: The Evolutionary Significance of the Radical Deduplication of the Human Brain. Charles W. Needham (1983) (0)
nature14134-s1: Manot Cave skull supplementary info (2015) (0)
The Australopithecine Brain: Controversies Perpetual (2017) (0)
Appendix 1: Endocranial Volumes of the Fossil Hominids (2005) (0)
The endocast of LES1, Homo naledi (2018) (0)
STERKFONTEIN CAVES, SOUTH AFRICA (2012) (0)
Asia, Eastern and Central (2005) (0)
Broca, Paul Pierre (2018) (0)
Physical Anthropology: Evolution des vertebres: De leur origine a l'Homme. GEORGES VANDEBROEK (1972) (0)
Paleoneurology. Veronika I. Kochetkova, with commentary by Harry J. Jerison (1980) (0)
Illustrated guide to the central nervous system. By Kazuaki Sugiura, Grant A. Robinson, and Douglas G. Stuart. 160 pp. St. Louis, MO: Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, Inc. 1989, $24.50 (paper) (1991) (0)
Human origins: An introduction to physical anthropology. By Thomas W. McKern, and Sharon McKern. 204 pp. Prentice Hall, N. J. 1969. $6.95 cloth; $3.95 paper (1971) (0)
Reply to Professor Washburn (1968) (0)

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