Publications
For Kirtlandia volume 56, Geology and Paleontology of Lemudong'o, Kenya, click here.
30. Hlusko LJ and Mahaney MC. In press. Baboon model for dental development. In: The Baboon in Biomedical Research, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Press, San Antonio, TX.
29. Frost SR, Haile-Selassie Y, and Hlusko LJ. In press. Chapter 6 Cercopithecidae. In: Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from Middle Awash, Ethiopia (Y. Haile-Selassie, G WoldeGabriel eds). University of California Press, Berkeley.
28. Rizk OT, Amugongo S, Mahaney MC, and Hlusko LJ. 2008. The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: History of the approach and prospects for the future. In: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology (J.D. Irish and G.C. Nelson, eds). Cambridge University Press. PEER REVIEWED. Available January 2008 (ISBN-13:9780521870610).
27. Hlusko LJ and Mahaney MC. 2007. Of mice and monkeys: Quantitative genetic analyses of size variation along the dental arcade. In: Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology (S. Bailey and J-J. Hublin, eds.). Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 237-245.
26. Hlusko LJ, Do N, Mahaney MC. 2007. Genetic correlations between mandibular molar cusp areas in baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:445-454.
25. Hlusko LJ and Mahaney MC. 2007. A multivariate comparison of dental variation in wild and captive populations of baboons (Papio hamadryas). Archives of Oral Biology 52:195-200.
24. Hlusko LJ. 2007. A new late Miocene species of Paracolobus and other Cercopithecoid (Mammalia: Primates) fossils from Lemudong’o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 53-66.
23. Hlusko LJ. 2007. Earliest evidence for Atherurus and Xenohystrix (Hystricidae, Rodentia) in Africa, from the late Miocene site of Lemudong’o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 86-91.
22. Hlusko LJ and Haile-Selassie Y. 2007. Nyanzochoerus syrticus (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the late Miocene of Lemudong’o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 152-157.
21. Hlusko LJ, Haile-Selassie Y, and DeGusta D. 2007. Late Miocene Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lemudong’o, Narok District, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 163-172.
20. Ambrose SH, Bell CJ, Bernor RL, Boisserie JR, Darwent CM, DeGusta D, Deino A, Garcia N, Haile-Selassie Y, Head JJ, Howell FC, Kyule MD, Manthi FK, Mathu EM, Nyamai CM, Pickford M, Saegusa H, Stidham TA, Williams MAJ, and Hlusko LJ. 2007. The Paleoecology and Paleogeographic Context of Lemudong’o Locality 1, a Late Miocene Terrestrial Fossil Site in Southern Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 38-52.
19. Ambrose SH, Kyule MD, and Hlusko LJ. 2007. History of paleontological research in the Narok District of Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 1-37.
18. Saegusa H and Hlusko LJ. 2007. New late Miocene elephantoid (Mammalia: Proboscidea) fossils from Lemudong’o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 140-147.
17. Pickford M and Hlusko LJ. 2007. Late Miocene procaviid hyracoids from Lemudong’o, Kenya. Kirtlandia 56: 106-111.
16. Hlusko LJ, Lease LR, Mahaney MC. 2006. The evolution of genetically correlated traits: tooth size and body size in baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131:420-427.
15. White TD, WoldeGabriel G, Asfaw B, Ambrose S, Beyene Y, Bernor RL, Boisserie JR, Currie B, Gilbert H, Haile-Selassie Y, Hart WK, Hlusko LJ, Howell FC, Kono RT, Louchart A, Lovejoy CO, Renne PR, Saegusa H, Vrba E, Wesselman H, and Suwa G. 2006. Asa Issie, Aramis, and the origin of Australopithecus. Nature 440:883-889.
14. Hlusko LJ. 2006. A New Large Pliocene Colobine Species (Mammalia: Primates) from Asa Issie, Ethiopia. Geobios 39:57-69.
13. Sherwood RJ, Hlusko LJ, Duren DL, Ench VC, and Walker A. 2005. The mandibular symphysis of large-bodied hominoids. Human Biology 77(6):735-759
12. Haile-Selassie Y, Hlusko LJ, and Howell FC. 2004. A new species of Plesiogulo (Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Late Miocene of Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 40:85-88.
11. Hlusko LJ, Maas ML, Mahaney MC. 2004. Statistical genetics of molar cusp patterning in pedigreed baboons: Implications for primate dental development and evolution. Molecular and Developmental Evolution (J. Exp. Zoolog.) 302B:268-283.
10. Hlusko LJ. 2004. Protostylid variation in Australopithecus. Journal of Human Evolution 46: 579-594.
9. Hlusko LJ. 2004. Perspective: Integrating the genotype and phenotype in hominid paleontology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101(9): 2653-2657 (invited).
8. Hlusko LJ, Suwa G, Kono R, and Mahaney MC. 2004. Genetics and the evolution of primate enamel thickness: A baboon model. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124:223-233.
7. Hlusko LJ. 2003. The oldest hominid habit? Experimental evidence for toothpicking with grass stalks. Current Anthropology 44(5): 738-741.
6. Hlusko LJ and Mahaney MC. 2003. Genetic contributions to expression of the baboon cingular remnant. Archives of Oral Biology 48: 663-672.
5. Ambrose SH, Hlusko LJ, Kyule D, Deino A, and Williams M. 2003. Lemudong'o: A new 6ma paleontological site near Narok, Kenya Rift Valley. Journal of Human Evolution 44:737-742.
4. Hlusko LJ. 2002. Identifying metameric variation in extant hominoid and fossil hominid molars. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 118(1): 86-97.
3. Hlusko LJ. 2002. Expression types for two cercopithecoid dental traits (Interconulus and Interconulid) and their variation in a modern baboon population. International Journal of Primatology 23(6): 1309-1318.
2. Hlusko LJ, Mahaney MC, and Weiss KM. 2002. A statistical genetic comparison of two techniques for assessing molar crown size in pedigreed baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117(2): 182-189.
1. Liu W, LJ Hlusko, and Zheng. 2001. Morphometric analysis of hominoid lower molars from Yuanmou of Yunnan Province, China. Primates 42(2): 123-134.
Book Reviews
Hlusko LJ. 2002. Book Review: Extinct Humans, by I. Tattersall and J.H. Schwartz. Quarterly Review of Biology 77(4): 446-447.
Hlusko LJ. 2003. Book Review: Colbert’s Evolution of the Vertebrates by E.H. Colbert, M. Morales, and E.C. Minkoff. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123:97.
Hlusko LJ. 2006. Book Review: The Human Fossil Record, Volume Four: Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (General Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin), and Overview by J.H. Schwartz and I. Tattersall. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131:148-149.
Hlusko LJ. 2008. Book Review. The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul, by A. Walker and P. Shipman. Current Anthropology 49(2):337-338.
Dissertation
Hlusko LJ. 2000. Identifying the genetic mechanisms of dental variation in cercopithecoid primates. PhD dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, UMI 9982340.
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