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Publications of Blythe A. Williams    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Book Sections/Chapters

  1. Covert, H., and Williams, B.A., Recently recovered North American Eocene omomyids and adapids and their bearing on debates about anthropoid origins, in Anthropoid Origins: the fossil evidence, edited by J. Fleagle and R. Kay (1994), pp. 29-54, Plenum Press, New York
  2. Kay, R.F. and Williams, B.A., Dental evidence for anthropoid origins, in Anthropoid Origins: the fossil evidence, edited by J. Fleagle and R. Kay (1994), pp. 361-446, Plenum Press, New York
  3. Kay, R.F., Williams, B.A., and Anaya, F., The adaptations of Branisella boliviana, the earliest South American monkey, in Reconstructing behavior in the fossil record, edited by M. Plavcan, R. Kay, W. Jungers, and C. van Shaik Schaik (2001), pp. 339-370, Plenum, New York
  4. Kay, R.F., Williams, B.A., Ross, C.R., Takai, M, and Shigehara, N., Anthropoid Origins: a phylogenetic analysis, in Anthropoid Origins: New Visions, edited by C.F. Ross and R.F. Kay (2004), pp. 91-135, Kluwer/Plenum, New York

Refereed Publications

  1. Covert, HH; Williams, BA, The anterior lower dentition of Washakius insignis and adapid-anthropoidean affinities, Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 21 no. 6 (1991), pp. 463-467, Elsevier BV [science], [doi]
  2. Williams, BA; Kay, RF, The taxon anthropoidea and the crown clade concept, Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, vol. 3 no. 6 (January, 1994), pp. 188-190, WILEY [doi]
  3. Williams, BA; Covert, HH, New early eocene anaptomorphine primate (Omomyidae) from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, with comments on the phylogeny and paleobiology of anaptomorphines., American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 93 no. 3 (March, 1994), pp. 323-340 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Williams, BA, William H. Kimbel and Lawrence B. Martin (Eds.): Species, species concepts, and primate evolution, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 15 no. 1 (March, 1995), pp. 212-213 [doi]
  5. Kay, RF; Ross, CF; Williams, BA, Rethinking anthropoid origins, Science, vol. 275 no. 5301 (1997), pp. 797-804, ISSN 0036-8075 [9012340]  [abs]
  6. Robinson, P; Williams, BA, Dental morphology of the early Eocene Hyopsodontid, Haplomylus, from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Contributions to Geology, vol. 31 no. 2 (1997)
  7. Kay, RF; Ross, C; Williams, BA, Anthropoid origins., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 275 no. 5301 (February, 1997), pp. 797-804, ISSN 0036-8075 [9012340], [doi]  [abs]
  8. Bloch, JI; Fisher, DC; Gingerich, PD; Gunnell, GF; Simons, EL; Uhen, MD, Cladistic analysis and anthropoid origins., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 278 no. 5346 (December, 1997), pp. 2134-2136, AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, ISSN 0036-8075 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  9. Sánchez-Villagra, MR; Williams, BA, Levels of homoplasy in the evolution of the mammalian skeleton, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 5 no. 2 (January, 1998), pp. 113-126, ISSN 1064-7554 [doi]  [abs]
  10. Ross, C; Williams, B; Kay, RF, Phylogenetic analysis of anthropoid relationships., Journal of human evolution, vol. 35 no. 3 (September, 1998), pp. 221-306, ISSN 0047-2484 [doi]  [abs]
  11. Kay, RF; Vizcaino, S; Tauber, AA; Bargo, MS; Williams, BA; Luna, C; Colbert, MW, Three newly discovered skulls of Homunculus patagonicus support its position as a stem platyrrhine and establish its diurnal arboreal folivorous habits., AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (January, 2005), pp. 127-127, WILEY-LISS, ISSN 0002-9483 [Gateway.cgi]
  12. Williams, BA, Comparing levels of homoplasy in the primate skeleton., Journal of human evolution, vol. 52 no. 5 (May, 2007), pp. 480-489, ISSN 0047-2484 [17391731], [doi]  [abs]
  13. Bajpai, S; Kay, RF; Williams, BA; Das, DP; Kapur, VV; Tiwari, BN, The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105 no. 32 (August, 2008), pp. 11093-11098, ISSN 0027-8424 [doi]  [abs]
  14. Williams, BA; Kirk, EC, New Uintan primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene., Journal of human evolution, vol. 55 no. 6 (December, 2008), pp. 927-941, ISSN 0047-2484 [18835008], [doi]  [abs]
  15. Kirk, EC; Williams, BA, Phylogenetic relationships of late Uintan primates from the Devil's Graveyard Formation, Texas., AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 138 (January, 2009), pp. 165-166, WILEY-LISS, ISSN 0002-9483 [Gateway.cgi]
  16. Simons, EL; Ankel-Simons, F; Chatrath, PS; Kay, RS; Williams, B; Fleagle, JG; Gebo, DL; Beard, CK; Dawson, M; Tattersall, I; Rose, KD, Outrage at high price paid for a fossil., Nature, vol. 460 no. 7254 (July, 2009), pp. 456, ISSN 0028-0836 [doi]
  17. Williams, BA; Kay, RF; Kirk, EC, New Perspectives on Anthropoid Origins, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, vol. 107 no. 11 (2010), pp. 4794-4804 [full], [doi]  [abs]
  18. Williams, BA; Kay, RF; Kirk, EC, New perspectives on anthropoid origins., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107 no. 11 (March, 2010), pp. 4797-4804 [20212104], [doi]  [abs]
  19. Williams, BA; Kay, RF; Kirk, EC; Ross, CF, Darwinius masillae is a strepsirrhine--a reply to Franzen et al. (2009)., Journal of human evolution, vol. 59 no. 5 (November, 2010), pp. 567-573, ISSN 0047-2484 [science], [doi]
  20. Kirk, EC; Williams, BA, New adapiform primate of Old World affinities from the Devil's Graveyard Formation of Texas., Journal of human evolution, vol. 61 no. 2 (August, 2011), pp. 156-168, ISSN 0047-2484 [S0047248411000832], [doi]  [abs]
  21. Williams, BA, Effects of climate change on primate evolution in the Cenozoic, Nature Education (2012)
  22. Williams, BA; Ross, CF; Frost, SR; Waddle, DM; Gabadirwe, M; Brook, GA, Fossil papio cranium from !Ncumtsa (Koanaka) Hills, western Ngamiland, Botswana., American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 149 no. 1 (September, 2012), pp. 1-17 (Chosen for the cover photo of AJPA for Fall, 2012.) [22639236], [doi]  [abs]
  23. Patnaik, R; Milankumar Sharma, K; Mohan, L; Williams, BA; Kay, RF; Chatrath, P, Additional Vertebrate Remains from the Early Miocene of Kutch, Gujarat, Special Publication of the Paleontological Society of India, vol. 5 (2014), pp. 335-351
  24. Bhandari, A; Kay, RF; Williams, BA; Tiwari, BN; Bajpai, S; Hieronymus, T, First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India., PloS one, vol. 13 no. 11 (January, 2018), pp. e0206314 [doi]  [abs]
  25. Kirk, EC; Williams, BA, Corrigendum to "New adapiform primate of Old World affinities from the Devil's Graveyard Formation of Texas" [J Hum Evol 61 (2011) 156-168]., Journal of human evolution, vol. 125 (December, 2018), pp. 1 [doi]  [abs]
  26. Bhandari, A; Kay, RF; Williams, BA; Tiwari, BN; Bajpai, S; Hieronymus, T, Correction: First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India., PloS one, vol. 14 no. 5 (January, 2019), pp. e0217960 [doi]  [abs]
  27. Valenta, K; Daegling, DJ; Nevo, O; Ledogar, J; Sarkar, D; Kalbitzer, U; Bortolamiol, S; Omeja, P; Chapman, CA; Ayasse, M; Kay, R; Williams, B, Fruit Selectivity in Anthropoid Primates: Size Matters, International Journal of Primatology, vol. 41 no. 3 (June, 2020), pp. 525-537 [doi]  [abs]

Book Reviews

  1. Williams, B.A. and Kay, R., Cladistics, Computers, and Character Analysis. Review of MacClade Version 3, Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology, vol. 3 (1995), pp. 32-36

Papers Presented/Symposia/Abstracts

  1. H.H. Covert, B.A. (Williams) Carlson, The Adapidae-Omomyidae paradox revisited, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 75 (1988), pp. 199
  2. P. Robinson, B.A. (Williams) Carlson, Dental morphology of the early Eocene Hyopsodontid, Haplomylus, from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 9 (1989), pp. 36A
  3. H. H. Covert, M. Hamrick, B.A. (Williams) Carlson, New erinaceomorph insectivores from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (1989)
  4. H. H. Covert, B.A. (Williams) Carlson, Early Eocene anaptomorphine primates from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 78 (1989), pp. 207
  5. B.A. Williams, A new early Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 10 (1990), pp. 49A
  6. B.A. Williams, An unusual new early Eocene (Lower Graybull) primate fauna from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 81 (1990), pp. 317
  7. B.A. Williams, D.Ayers-Darling, H.H. Covert, New specimens of Arapahovius gazini from early Eocene deposits of the Washakie Basin,Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 12 (1991), pp. 184
  8. H.H. Covert, B.A. Williams, Newly recovered North American Eocene omomyids and adapids and their bearing on debates about anthropoid origins (1992) (Conference on Anthropoid Origins held at Duke University, Durham, N.C. Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and L.S.B. Leakey Foundations.)
  9. R. F. Kay, B.A. Williams, Dental evidence for anthropoid origins (1992) (Conference on Anthropoid Origins held at Duke University, Durham, N.C. Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and L.S.B. Leakey Foundations.)
  10. B.A. Williams, R.F. Kay, Phylogenetic analysis of Eocene primates suggests Omomyidae is not a monophyletic group, XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Strasbourg, France (1992), pp. 286 (Symposium on North American Paleogene primate evolution organized by Dr. Marc Godinot, University of Montpellier, France.)
  11. B.A. Williams, H.H. Covert, Primate diversity in the early Eocene of the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Strasbourg, France (1992), pp. 287 (Symposium on North American Paleogene primate evolution organized by Dr. Marc Godinot, University of Montpellier, France.)
  12. R.F.Kay, B.A. Williams, Dental evidence for anthropoid origins, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 14 (1992), pp. 98
  13. B.A. Williams, H.H. Covert, A new species of Anemorhysis from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 14 (1992), pp. 173
  14. H.H. Covert, B.A. Williams, New specimens of Anemorhysis pearcei from early Eocene deposits of the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 12 (1992), pp. 62
  15. B.A. Williams, Sandcouleean omomyids from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1993), pp. 208
  16. D. Hobbs, B.A. Williams, H.H. Covert, Middle Wasatchian primatomorphs from the Washakie Basin of Wyoming, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1993), pp. 109
  17. B.A. Williams, Phylogeny of the Primate Family Omomyidae: A cladistic analysis "backboned" with stratigraphy, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 13 (1994), pp. 207-208
  18. B.A. Williams, Incisor morphology of omomyid primates: implications for phylogeny and adaptation, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 18 (1994), pp. 207-208
  19. R. F. Kay, B.A. Williams, Recent finds of monkeys from the Oligocene/ Miocene of Salla, Bolivia, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 20 (1995), pp. 124
  20. B.A. Williams, Omomyid Primate Evolution (1996) (State University of New York, Stony Brook, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences Lecture SeriesState University of New York, Stony Brook, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences Lecture Series.)
  21. M. Sanchez-Villagra, B.A. Williams, Levels of homoplasy in the evolution of the mammalian skeleton, Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (1997)
  22. B.A. Williams, D.M. Waddle, C.F. Ross, M. Gabadirwe, Discovery of new primate fossils from Bone Cave, Ngamiland, Botswana, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 26 (1998), pp. 233
  23. E.C. Kirk, B.A. Williams, Dental evidence for cheirogaleid affinities, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 26 (1998), pp. 139
  24. Kay, R.F., B.A. Williams, F. Anaya, Branisella boliviana, the earliest South American monkey: Documentation for an earlier adaptive radiation of platyrrhines?, Congreso Internacional Evolución Neotropical del Cenozoico (1999), pp. 25
  25. B.A. Williams, Reconstructing the dietary adaptations of omomyid primates using homoplasy (1999) (Workshop on Homoplasy in Primate and Human Evolution, held in Columbus, Ohio. Sponsored by the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.)
  26. B.A. Williams, Anthropoid Origins, using a cladistic analysis (1999) (Department of Phylogeny and Morphology, University of Kyoto Primate Research Institute Inuyama, Japan.)
  27. Perry, J; Wall, CE; Williams, BA, THE ANATOMY OF THE MASTICATORY MUSCLES IN TWO STREPSIRRHINE PRIMATES AND INFERENCE OF MUSCLE ATTACHMENT AREAS FROM OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL, JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, vol. 23 (January, 2003), pp. 86A-87A, TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
  28. B.A. Williams, E.C. Kirk, New Uintan Primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of richness during the Eocene, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26 (2006), pp. 139A
  29. E.C. Kirk, B.A. Williams, New specimens of Mytonius (Primates, Omomyoidea) from the Devil’s Graveyard Formation, Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 27 (2007), pp. 99A
  30. P.J. Lewis, B.A. Williams, A.M. Kennedy, Analysis of a small mammal fauna from the !Ncumsta Hills, western Ngamiland, Botswana, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 44 (2007), pp. 155
  31. E.C. Kirk, B.A. Williams, First Uintan specimens of Mahgarita (Primates, Adapiformes) from the Devil’s Graveyard Formation, Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 28 (2008), pp. 100A
  32. B.A. Williams, R.F.Kay, S. Bajpai, V.V. Kapur, D.P. Das, New Indian eosimiids: the oldest Asian record of anthropoids, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 28 (2008), pp. 160
  33. B.A. Williams, R.F. Kay, S. Bajpai, The oldest anthropoids: New specimens from the early Eocene of India, Proceedings of the XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society (2008)
  34. E.C. Kirk, B.A. Williams, Mescalerolemur horneri: A new adapiform primate from the Middle Eocene of West Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2011)
  35. J. P. Spradley, B.A. Williams, and R.F.Kay, Environmental variables affecting primate richness in the neotropics, American Journal of Physical Anthroplogy (2015)
  36. Spradley, JP; Williams, BA; Kay, RF, Environmental Variables Affecting Primate Species Richness in the Neotropics, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 156 (March, 2015), pp. 294-294, WILEY-BLACKWELL
  37. Kay, RF; Williams, BA, Are there any African Platyrrhines?, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 162 (April, 2017), pp. 239-240, WILEY
  38. Yapuncich, GS; Williams, BA; Boyer, DM, Phenetic Affinities of Teilhardina (Primates, Omomyidae) from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming Reveal the First Known Occurrences of Teilhardina brandti Outside the Bighorn Basin, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 162 (April, 2017), pp. 416-416, WILEY
  39. Pampush, JD; Morse, PE; Chester, SGB; Spradley, JP; Williams, BA; Glander, KE; Teaford, MF; Kay, RF, Dental Topography and Food Processing in Wild-Caught Costa Rican Alouatta, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 165 (April, 2018), pp. 198-198, WILEY
  40. Morse, PE; Stock, MK; Kay, RF; Williams, BA, Shearing ratios of Aycross anaptomorphine omomyids: Support for a middle Eocene refugium habitat, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 174 (2021), pp. 74-74
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