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Publications

Filter by type or topic using the categories on the right. A full list can also be found on Google Scholar; work from the group is on the CEA lab website.

Multisite analysis of infant corpse carrying in Pan reveals maternal attachment and death context as explanations of carrying duration

Reece Hammond, Thomas A. Püschel

In Biology Letters, 22 (9) 20260371 (2026)

Impacted Bones: Can Extant Primates Help Identify Tool Use in Early Hominins?

Rachel M. Hurwitz, Katarina Almeida-Warren, Susana Carvalho, Thomas A. Püschel

In Evolutionary Anthropology, 35 (3) e70042 (2026)

The distal humerus of Pliobates cataloniae (Primates: Pliopithecoidea): functional and locomotor inferences

Julia Arias-Martorell, Ambra Figueroa-Torrejón, Thomas A. Püschel, Georgina Raventós-Izard, Alessandro Urciuoli, Jesús Gamarra, Sergio Almécija, David M. Alba

In Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 33 (3) 36 (2026)

Competing models of hominin body size evolution

Jacob Gardner, Thomas A. Püschel, Suzy White, Manabu Sakamoto, Chris Venditti

In PNAS, 23 (27) e2521732123 (2026)

Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness

Thomas A. Püschel, Rachel M. Hurwitz, Chris Venditti

In PLoS Biology, 24 (4) e3003771 (2026)

Impacted Bones Can extant primates help identify tool-use in early hominins

Rachel Hurwitz, Katarina Almeida-Warren, Susana Carvalho, Thomas A. Püschel

In EcoEvoRxiv, (2026)

Diversified human dietary strategies and settlement patterns in the core of the Atacama Desert during the late Pleistocene-Holocene transition (∼12.8–11.2 ka)

Rafael Labarca, Paula C. Ugalde, José M. Capriles, Eugenia M. Gayo, Thomas A. Püschel, Francisco Caro, Gabriela Jarpa, Natalia Villavicencio, Claudio Latorre, Calogero M. Santoro

In Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 81

The Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Lomekwi faunas, West Turkana, Kenya systematics, paleoecology, and biochronology

Denis Geraads, René Bobe, Thomas A. Püschel, Carol V. Ward, J. Michael Plavcan, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi

In Quaternary International, Volume 754

Infant corpse carrying in Pan reflects maternal attachment and death context

Reece Hammond, Thomas A. Püschel

In bioRxiv, (2026)

The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates

Jorge Avaria-Llautureo, Thomas A. Püschel, Andrew Meade, Joanna Baker, Samuel Nicholson, Chris Venditti

In PNAS, 122 (32) e2423833122 (2025)

Female driven reduction of sexual dimorphism in hominins

Thomas A. Püschel, Jorge Avaria-Llautureo, Chris Venditti

In ecoevorxiv, (2025)

Phylogenetic meta-analysis implicates large brains and our unusual posture in human handedness

Thomas A. Püschel, Rachel M. Hurwitz, Chris Venditti

In BioRxiv, (2025)

A Dryopithecine Talus From Abocador de Can Mata (Valles-Penedes Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) Morphometric Affinities and Evolutionary Implications for Hominoid Locomotion

Oriol Monclus-Gonzalo, Shubham Pal, Thomas A. Püschel, Alessandro Urciuoli, Victor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almecija, David M. Alba

In AJBA, 186 (4) e70043 (2025)

The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates

Jorge Avaria-Llautureo, Thomas A. Püschel, Andrew Meade, Joanna Baker, Samuel Nicholson, Chris Venditti

In EcoevoRxiv, (2024)

Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization

Thomas A. Püschel, Samuel Nicholson, Joanna Baker, Robert Barton, Chris Venditti

In PNAS, 121 (49) e2409542121 (2024)

Climatic-environmental influences on hominin brain size over the last 5 million years

Samuel Nicholson, Thomas A. Püschel, Joanna Baker, Chris Venditti

In BioRxiv, (2024)

The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift

Rene Bobe, Vera Aldeias, Zeresenay Alemseged, Will Archer, Georges Aumaitre, Marion K Bamford, Dora Biro, Didier L Bourles, David R Braun, Cristian Capelli, Joao d’Oliveira Coelho, Jorg M Habermann, Jason J Head, Kornelius Kupczik, Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, Tina Luedecke, Amelia Macoa, Felipe I Martinez, Jacinto Mathe, Luis Meira Paulo, Clara Mendes, Maria Pinto, Thomas A. Püschel, Frederico Tata Regala, Mark Sier, Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Marc Stalmans, Susana Carvalho

In IScience (2023)

Association Between Pain Coping and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression, and Work Absenteeism in People With Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Disorders A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Rodrigo Núñez-Cortés, Ander Espin, Sofía Pérez-Alenda, Rubén López-Bueno, Carlos Cruz-Montecinos, Karina Glies Vincents-Seeberg, Thomas A. Püschel, Joaquín Calatayud, Lars Louis Andersen

In Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 0, 1-11 (2023)

Modularity of the wrist in extant hominines

Ana Bucchi, Thomas A. Püschel, Carlos Lorenzo

In Anthropologischer Anzeiger, (2022)

Reply to Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data

Hans P. Püschel, Ornella C. Bertrand, Joseph E. O’Reilly, René Bobe, Thomas A. Püschel

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–3 (2022)

Drosophila Wing Integration and Modularity A Multi-Level Approach to Understand the History of Morphological Structures

Hugo Benítez, Thomas A. Püschel, Manuel J. Suazo

In Biology 11, 567 (2022)

Characterizing the body morphology of the first metacarpal in the Homininae using 3D geometric morphometrics

Jonathan Morley, Ana Bucchi, Carlos Lorenzo, Thomas A. Püschel

In American Journal of Biological Anthropology 1-12 (2022)

The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift

Rene Bobe, Vera Aldeias, Zeresenay Alemseged, Will Archer, Georges Aumaitre, Marion K Bamford, Dora Biro, Didier L Bourles, David R Braun, Cristian Capelli, Joao d’Oliveira Coelho, Jorg M Habermann, Jason J Head, Kornelius Kupczik, Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, Tina Luedecke, Amelia Macoa, Felipe I Martinez, Jacinto Mathe, Luis Meira Paulo, Clara Mendes, Maria Pinto, Thomas A. Püschel, Frederico Tata Regala, Mark Sier, Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Marc Stalmans, Susana Carvalho

In BioRiv (2021)

Effects of cognitive and mental health factors on the outcomes following carpal tunnel release A systematic review and meta-analysis

Rodrigo Núñez-Cortés, Carlos Cruz-Montecinos, Rodrigo Torres-Castro, Claudio Tapia, Thomas A. Püschel, Sofía Pérez-Alenda

In Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 0, 0 (2021)

Convex hull estimation of mammalian body segment parameters

Samuel J. Coatham, William I. Sellers, Thomas A. Püschel

In R. Soc. Open Sci 8, 210836 (2021)

Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution

Hans P. Püschel, Ornella C. Bertrand, Joseph E. O’Reilly, René Bobe, Thomas A. Püschel

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–12 (2021)

Finite element analysis of the proximal phalanx of the thumb in Hominoidea during simulated stone tool use

Ana Bucchi, Thomas A. Püschel, Carlos Lorenzo, Jordi Marcé-Nogué

In Comptes Rendus Palevol 19, 2 (2020)

Characterizing the body morphology of the first metacarpal in the Homininae using 3D geometric morphometrics

Jonathan Morley, Ana Bucchi, Carlos Lorenzo, Thomas A. Püschel

In bioRxiv, (2020)

Modularity of the Wrist in Extant Hominids

Ana Bucchi, Thomas A. Püschel, Antonio Profico, Carlos Lorenzo

In Preprints 2020040474, (2020)

Getting Its Feet on the Ground Elucidating Paralouatta’s Semi-Terrestriality Using the Virtual Morpho-Functional Toolbox

Thomas A. Püschel, Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Justin Gladman, Biren A. Patel, Sergio Almécija, William I. Sellers

In Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, (2020)

Broad-scale morpho-functional traits of the mandible suggest no hard food adaptation in the hominin lineage

Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Thomas A. Püschel, Alexander Daasch, Thomas M. Kaiser

In Scientific Reports 10, 6793 (2020)

The biomechanical importance of the scaphoid-centrale fusion during simulated knuckle-walking and its implications for human locomotor evolution

Thomas A. Püschel, Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Andrew T Chamberlain, Alaster Yoxall, William I Sellers

In Scientific Reports 10, 1–7 (2020)

Morphological consequences of artificial cranial deformation Modularity and integration

Thomas A. Püschel, Martin Friess, Germán Manríquez

In PlOS One 15, e0227362 (2020)

Inferring locomotor behaviours in Miocene New World monkeys using finite element analysis, geometric morphometrics and machine-learning classification techniques applied to talar morphology

Thomas A. Püschel, Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Justin Gladman, René Bobe, William I Sellers

In J. R. Soc. Interface 15, 20180520 (2018)

Fluctuating asymmetry indicates levels of disturbance between agricultural productions An example in Croatian population of Pterostichus melas melas (Coleoptera Carabidae)

Hugo Benítez, Darija Lemic, Thomas A. Püschel, Helena Virić Gašparić, Tomislav Kos, Božena Barić, RenataBažok, Ivana Pajač Živković

In Zoologischer Anzeiger 276, 42-49 (2018)

Analyzing the sclerocarpy adaptations of the Pitheciidae mandible

Thomas A. Püschel, Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Thomas Kaiser, Robert Brocklehurst, William I Sellers

In American Journal of Primatology 159,325–341 (2016)

Morpho-functional analyses of the primate skeleton applying 3D geometric morphometrics, finite element analysis and phylogenetic comparative methods to assess ecomorphological questions in extant and extinct anthropoids

Thomas A. Püschel

In PhD thesis, The University of Manchester, (2017)

The intervals method a new approach to analyse finite element outputs using multivariate statistics

Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, Thomas A. Püschel, Josep Fortuny

In PeerJ 5,e3793 (2017)

The evolution of the platyrrhine talus A comparative analysis of the phenetic affinities of the Miocene platyrrhines with their modern relatives

Thomas A. Püschel, Justin Gladman, René Bobe, William I Sellers

In Journal of Human Evolution 111, 179–201 (2017)

A biomechanical approach to understand the ecomorphological relationship between primate mandibles and diet

Jordi Marcé-Nogué, Thomas A. Püschel, Thomas Kaiser

In Scientific Reports 7, 8364 (2017)

Taxonomic comments of a Glossotherium specimen from the Pleistocene of Central Chile

Hans P. Püschel, Thomas A. Püschel, Davud Rubilar-Rogers

In Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 66(2),223-262, (2017)

Artificial Cranial Modification in San Pedro de Atacama and the Loa Basin a Quantitative Approach to its Role as a Marker of Social Identity

Ana Bucchi, Thomas A. Püschel, Germán Manríquez

In Revista Chilena de Antropología 34, 19-30 (2016)

Standing on the Shoulders of Apes Analyzing the Form and Function of the Hominoid Scapula Using Geometric Morphometrics and Finite Element Analysis

Thomas A. Püschel, William I Sellers

In American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159,325–341 (2016)

Origen y evolución de la población chilena el punto de vista biológico.

German Manriquez, Thomas A. Püschel, Sergio Flores, Tomas Gonzalez, Mauricio Moraga, Francisco Rothhmammer

In Prehistoria en Chile Desde sus Primeros Habitantes hasta los Incas, Editorial Universitaria, 573-586 (2016)

Ecological morphology of the sugar beet weevil Croatian populations: Evaluating the role of environmental conditions on body shape

Darija Lemic, Hugo A. Benítez, Thomas A. Püschel, Helena Virić Gašparić, Mihaela Šatvar, Renata Bažok

In Zoologischer Anzeiger, 260 25-32 (2016)

Left–right asymmetry and morphological consequences of a host shift in the oligophagous Neotropical moth Macaria mirthae (Lepidoptera Geometridae)

Hugo Benítez, Héctor Vargas, Thomas A. Püschel

In Journal of Insect Conservation 19,589–598 (2015)

Analysing the Floral Elements of the Lost Tree of Easter Island a Morphometric Comparison between the Remaining Ex-Situ Lines of the Endemic Extinct Species Sophora toromiro

Thomas A. Püschel, Jaime Espejo, Maria Jose Sanzana, Hugo Benitez

In PLOS One 9(12), e115548, (2014)

Modelling Shape Variance Geometric Morphometric Applications in Evolutionary Biology

Hugo Benítez, Thomas A. Püschel

In International Journal of Morphology 32, 3(2014)

Ecomorphological Variation of the Wireworm Cephalic Capsule Studying the Interaction of Environment and Geometric Shape

Hugo Benitez, Thomas A. Püschel, Darija Lemic, Maja Čačija, Antonela Kozina, Renata Bažok

In PLOS One 9(7), e10205, (2014)

Morphological integration and modularity in Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae) hind wings

Hugo A.Benítez, Darija Lemic, Renata Bažok, Raffaella Bravi, Marina Buketa, Thomas A. Püschel

In Zoologischer Anzeiger 253,6,461-468(2014)

Femoral Functional Adaptation A Comparison Between Hunter Gatherers and Farmers Using Geometric Morphometrics

Thomas A. Püschel, Hugo Benítez

In International Journal of Morphology 32(2), 627-633 (2014)

Modularity and Morphological Integration in Human Skulls a Geometric Morphometric Approach

Thomas A. Püschel

In International Journal of Morphology 32(1),299-304 (2014)

Biomechanical modelling of Human Femora a comparison between Agriculturalists and Hunter-Gatherers using FEA, GMM and Beam Theory

Thomas A. Püschel

In MSc thesis, The University of York, Hull York Medical School, (2013)

Deformación Intencional del Cráneo en los Oasis de San Pedro de Atacama un Enfoque Morfométrico Geométrico

Thomas A. Püschel

In BSc thesis, Universidad de Chile, (2012)