Publications of Douglas M. Boyer

Book Sections/Chapters

  1. Silcox, MT; Sargis, EJ; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM, Primate origins and supraordinal relationships: Morphological evidence, in Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Second Edition (January, 2015), pp. 1053-1081, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 9783642399787
  2. Boyer, DM; Bloch, JI, Evaluating the mitten-gliding hypothesis for paromomyidae and micromomyidae (mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) using comparative functional morphology of new paleogene Skeletons, in Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (January, 2008), pp. 233-284, Springer Netherlands, ISBN 9781402069963

Journal Articles

  1. Maiolino, SA; Chester, SGB; Boyer, DM; Bloch, JI, Functional morphology of plesiadapiform distal phalanges and implications for the evolution of arboreality in Paleogene euarchontans, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 30 no. 4 (December, 2023), pp. 1107-1153
  2. Boulinguez-Ambroise, G; Dunham, N; Phelps, T; Mazonas, T; Nguyen, P; Bradley-Cronkwright, M; Boyer, DM; Yapuncich, GS; Zeininger, A; Schmitt, D; Young, JW, Jumping performance in tree squirrels: Insights into primate evolution., J Hum Evol, vol. 180 (July, 2023), pp. 103386
  3. Mulligan, CJ; Boyer, DM; Turner, TR; Delson, E; Leonard, WR, Data sharing in biological anthropology, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, vol. 178 no. S74 (August, 2022), pp. 26-53
  4. Fulwood, EL; Shan, S; Winchester, JM; Gao, T; Kirveslahti, H; Daubechies, I; Boyer, DM, Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape, Paleobiology, vol. 47 no. 4 (November, 2021), pp. 612-631
  5. Rolfe, S; Pieper, S; Porto, A; Diamond, K; Winchester, J; Shan, S; Kirveslahti, H; Boyer, D; Summers, A; Maga, AM, SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 12 no. 10 (October, 2021), pp. 1816-1825
  6. Vitek, NS; Morse, PE; Boyer, DM; Strait, SG; Bloch, JI, Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Paleobiology, vol. 47 no. 3 (August, 2021), pp. 464-486
  7. Frank, LR; Rowe, TB; Boyer, DM; Witmer, LM; Galinsky, VL, Unveiling the third dimension in morphometry with automated quantitative volumetric computations., Scientific Reports, vol. 11 no. 1 (July, 2021), pp. 14438
  8. Boyer, DM; Schaeffer, LM; Beard, KC, New dentaries of Chiromyoides (Primatomorpha, Plesiadapidae) and a reassessment of the “mammalian woodpecker” ecological niche, Geobios, vol. 66-67 (July, 2021), pp. 77-102
  9. Wang, B; Sudijono, T; Kirveslahti, H; Gao, T; Boyer, DM; Mukherjee, S; Crawford, L, A statistical pipeline for identifying physical features that differentiate classes of 3D shapes, The Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 15 no. 2 (June, 2021), pp. 638-661
  10. Fulwood, EL; Shan, S; Winchester, JM; Kirveslahti, H; Ravier, R; Kovalsky, S; Daubechies, I; Boyer, DM, Insights from macroevolutionary modelling and ancestral state reconstruction into the radiation and historical dietary ecology of Lemuriformes (Primates, Mammalia)., Bmc Ecology and Evolution, vol. 21 no. 1 (April, 2021), pp. 60
  11. Boyer, DM; Jahnke, LM; Mulligan, CJ; Turner, T; 2019 Workshop on Data Sharing in Biological Anthropology,, Response to letters to the editor concerning AJPA commentary on "data sharing in biological anthropology: Guiding principles and best practices"., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 172 no. 3 (July, 2020), pp. 344-346
  12. Marigó, J; Minwer-Barakat, R; Moyà-Solà, S; Boyer, DM, First navicular remains of a European adapiform (Anchomomys frontanyensis) from the Middle Eocene of the Eastern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain): implications for early primate locomotor behavior and navicular evolution., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 139 (February, 2020), pp. 102708
  13. Yapuncich, GS; Feng, HJ; Dunn, RH; Seiffert, ER; Boyer, DM, Vertical support use and primate origins., Scientific Reports, vol. 9 no. 1 (August, 2019), pp. 12341
  14. Boyer, DM; Yapuncich, GS; Dunham, NT; McNamara, A; Shapiro, LJ; Hieronymus, TL; Young, JW, My branch is your branch: Talar morphology correlates with relative substrate size in platyrrhines at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador., J Hum Evol, vol. 133 (August, 2019), pp. 23-31
  15. Harrington, AR; Kuzawa, CW; Boyer, DM, Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 169 no. 1 (May, 2019), pp. 161-169
  16. Shan, S; Kovalsky, SZ; Winchester, JM; Boyer, DM; Daubechies, I, ariaDNE: A robustly implemented algorithm for Dirichlet energy of the normal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10 no. 4 (April, 2019), pp. 541-552
  17. Boyer, DM; Harrington, AR, New estimates of blood flow rates in the vertebral artery of euarchontans and their implications for encephalic blood flow scaling: A response to Seymour and Snelling (2018)., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 128 (March, 2019), pp. 93-98
  18. Morse, PE; Chester, SGB; Boyer, DM; Smith, T; Smith, R; Gigase, P; Bloch, JI, New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 128 (March, 2019), pp. 103-131
  19. Yapuncich, GS; Kemp, AD; Griffith, DM; Gladman, JT; Ehmke, E; Boyer, DM, A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center., Plos One, vol. 14 no. 11 (2019), pp. e0219411
  20. Boyer, DM; Maiolino, SA; Holroyd, PA; Morse, PE; Bloch, JI, Oldest evidence for grooming claws in euprimates., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 122 (September, 2018), pp. 1-22
  21. Gunnell, GF; Boyer, DM; Friscia, AR; Heritage, S; Manthi, FK; Miller, ER; Sallam, HM; Simmons, NB; Stevens, NJ; Seiffert, ER, Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye., Nature Communications, vol. 9 no. 1 (August, 2018), pp. 3193
  22. Gao, T; Yapuncich, GS; Daubechies, I; Mukherjee, S; Boyer, DM, Development and Assessment of Fully Automated and Globally Transitive Geometric Morphometric Methods, With Application to a Biological Comparative Dataset With High Interspecific Variation., Anat Rec (Hoboken), vol. 301 no. 4 (April, 2018), pp. 636-658
  23. Lyu, I; Perdomo, J; Yapuncich, GS; Paniagua, B; Boyer, DM; Styner, MA, Group-wise Shape Correspondence of Variable and Complex Objects., Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics, vol. 10574 (March, 2018), pp. 105742T, ISBN 9781510616370
  24. Seiffert, ER; Boyer, DM; Fleagle, JG; Gunnell, GF; Heesy, CP; Perry, JMG; Sallam, HM, New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt, Historical Biology, vol. 30 no. 1-2 (February, 2018), pp. 204-226, Informa UK Limited
  25. Boyer, DM; Harrington, AR, Scaling of bony canals for encephalic vessels in euarchontans: Implications for the role of the vertebral artery and brain metabolism., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 114 (January, 2018), pp. 85-101
  26. Boyer, DM; Toussaint, S; Godinot, M, Postcrania of the most primitive euprimate and implications for primate origins., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 111 (October, 2017), pp. 202-215
  27. Vitek, NS; Manz, CL; Gao, T; Bloch, JI; Strait, SG; Boyer, DM, Semi-supervised determination of pseudocryptic morphotypes using observer-free characterizations of anatomical alignment and shape., Ecology and Evolution, vol. 7 no. 14 (July, 2017), pp. 5041-5055
  28. Wallace, IJ; Winchester, JM; Su, A; Boyer, DM; Konow, N, Physical activity alters limb bone structure but not entheseal morphology., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 107 (June, 2017), pp. 14-18
  29. Yapuncich, GS; Seiffert, ER; Boyer, DM, Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 163 no. 2 (June, 2017), pp. 367-406
  30. Davies, TG; Rahman, IA; Lautenschlager, S; Cunningham, JA; Asher, RJ; Barrett, PM; Bates, KT; Bengtson, S; Benson, RBJ; Boyer, DM; Braga, J; Bright, JA; Claessens, LPAM; Cox, PG; Dong, X-P; Evans, AR; Falkingham, PL; Friedman, M; Garwood, RJ; Goswami, A; Hutchinson, JR; Jeffery, NS; Johanson, Z; Lebrun, R; Martínez-Pérez, C; Marugán-Lobón, J; O'Higgins, PM; Metscher, B; Orliac, M; Rowe, TB; Rücklin, M; Sánchez-Villagra, MR; Shubin, NH; Smith, SY; Starck, JM; Stringer, C; Summers, AP; Sutton, MD; Walsh, SA; Weisbecker, V; Witmer, LM; Wroe, S; Yin, Z; Rayfield, EJ; Donoghue, PCJ, Open data and digital morphology., Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 284 no. 1852 (April, 2017), pp. 20170194
  31. Silcox, MT; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM; Chester, SGB; López-Torres, S, The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms., Evolutionary Anthropology, vol. 26 no. 2 (April, 2017), pp. 74-94
  32. Pampush, JD; Winchester, JM; Morse, PE; Vining, AQ; Boyer, DM; Kay, RF, Introducing molaR: a New R Package for Quantitative Topographic Analysis of Teeth (and Other Topographic Surfaces), Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 23 no. 4 (December, 2016), pp. 397-412, Springer Nature
  33. Pampush, JD; Spradley, JP; Morse, PE; Harrington, AR; Allen, KL; Boyer, DM; Kay, RF, Wear and its effects on dental topography measures in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata)., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 161 no. 4 (December, 2016), pp. 705-721
  34. Fulwood, EL; Boyer, DM; Kay, RF, Stem members of Platyrrhini are distinct from catarrhines in at least one derived cranial feature., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 100 (November, 2016), pp. 16-24
  35. St Clair, EM; Boyer, DM, Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 161 no. 2 (October, 2016), pp. 237-258
  36. Harrington, AR; Silcox, MT; Yapuncich, GS; Boyer, DM; Bloch, JI, First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates., J Hum Evol, vol. 99 (October, 2016), pp. 52-78
  37. Boyer, DM; Kirk, EC; Silcox, MT; Gunnell, GF; Gilbert, CC; Yapuncich, GS; Allen, KL; Welch, E; Bloch, JI; Gonzales, LA; Kay, RF; Seiffert, ER, Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates., J Hum Evol, vol. 97 (August, 2016), pp. 123-144
  38. Prufrock, KA; López-Torres, S; Silcox, MT; Boyer, DM, Surfaces and spaces: Troubleshooting the study of dietary niche space overlap between North American stem primates and rodents, Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, vol. 4 no. 2 (June, 2016), pp. 024005-024005, IOP Publishing
  39. Prufrock, KA; Boyer, DM; Silcox, MT, The first major primate extinction: An evaluation of paleoecological dynamics of North American stem primates using a homology free measure of tooth shape., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 159 no. 4 (April, 2016), pp. 683-697
  40. Copes, LE; Lucas, LM; Thostenson, JO; Hoekstra, HE; Boyer, DM, A collection of non-human primate computed tomography scans housed in MorphoSource, a repository for 3D data., Scientific Data, vol. 3 (February, 2016), pp. 160001
  41. Marigó, J; Roig, I; Seiffert, ER; Moyà-Solà, S; Boyer, DM, Astragalar and calcaneal morphology of the middle Eocene primate Anchomomys frontanyensis (Anchomomyini): Implications for early primate evolution., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 91 (February, 2016), pp. 122-143
  42. Boyer, DM; Winchester, JM; Glynn, C; Puente, J, Detailed Anatomical Orientations for Certain Types of Morphometric Measurements Can Be Determined Automatically With Geometric Algorithms., Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007), vol. 298 no. 11 (November, 2015), pp. 1816-1823, ISSN 1932-8486
  43. Patel, BA; Wallace, IJ; Boyer, DM; Granatosky, MC; Larson, SG; Stern, JT, Distinct functional roles of primate grasping hands and feet during arboreal quadrupedal locomotion., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 88 (November, 2015), pp. 79-84
  44. Yapuncich, GS; Gladman, JT; Boyer, DM, Predicting euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 157 no. 3 (July, 2015), pp. 472-506, ISSN 0002-9483
  45. Boyer, DM; Yapuncich, GS; Butler, JE; Dunn, RH; Seiffert, ER, Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 157 no. 1 (May, 2015), pp. 134-177, ISSN 0002-9483
  46. Boyer, DM; Winchester, J; Kay, RF, Erratum: The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2015) 156 (166-178)), American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 157 no. 1 (May, 2015), pp. 178, WILEY
  47. Goodenberger, KE; Boyer, DM; Orr, CM; Jacobs, RL; Femiani, JC; Patel, BA, Functional morphology of the hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability in extinct primates., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 156 no. 3 (March, 2015), pp. 327-348, ISSN 0002-9483
  48. Chester, SGB; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM; Clemens, WA, Oldest known euarchontan tarsals and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112 no. 5 (February, 2015), pp. 1487-1492, ISSN 0027-8424
  49. Boyer, DM; Puente, J; Gladman, JT; Glynn, C; Mukherjee, S; Yapuncich, GS; Daubechies, I, A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes., Anat Rec (Hoboken), vol. 298 no. 1 (January, 2015), pp. 249-276, ISSN 1932-8486
  50. Boyer, DM; Winchester, J; Kay, RF, The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 156 no. 1 (January, 2015), pp. 166-178, ISSN 0002-9483
  51. Seiffert, ER; Costeur, L; Boyer, DM, Primate tarsal bones from Egerkingen, Switzerland, attributable to the middle Eocene adapiform Caenopithecus lemuroides., Peerj, vol. 3 (January, 2015), pp. e1036
  52. Turner, K; Mukherjee, S; Boyer, DM, Persistent homology transform for modeling shapes and surfaces, Information and Inference, vol. 3 no. 4 (December, 2014), pp. 310-344
  53. Granatosky, MC; Miller, CE; Boyer, DM; Schmitt, D, Lumbar vertebral morphology of flying, gliding, and suspensory mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of the subfossil lemurs Palaeopropithecus and Babakotia., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 75 (October, 2014), pp. 40-52, ISSN 0047-2484
  54. Boyer, DM; Yapuncich, GS; Chester, SGB; Bloch, JI; Godinot, M, Erratum: Hands of Early Primates (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013) 152(33-78) DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22392), American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 153 no. 3 (March, 2014), pp. 512, WILEY, ISSN 0002-9483
  55. Yapuncich, GS; Boyer, DM, Interspecific scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within primates and their closest living relatives., Journal of Anatomy, vol. 224 no. 2 (February, 2014), pp. 150-172
  56. Fabre, AC; Cornette, R; Perrard, A; Boyer, DM; Prasad, GVR; Hooker, JJ; Goswami, A, A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology of Deccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of India, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 34 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 146-156, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0272-4634
  57. Winchester, JM; Boyer, DM; St Clair, EM; Gosselin-Ildari, AD; Cooke, SB; Ledogar, JA, Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 153 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 29-44, ISSN 0002-9483
  58. Boyer, DM; Yapuncich, GS; Chester, SGB; Bloch, JI; Godinot, M, Hands of early primates., edited by Trudy Turner, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 152 Suppl 57 no. s57 (December, 2013), pp. 33-78
  59. Baczynski, AA; McInerney, FA; Wing, SL; Kraus, MJ; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM; Secord, R; Morse, PE; Fricke, HC, Chemostratigraphic implications of spatial variation in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon isotope excursion, SE Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 14 no. 10 (October, 2013), pp. 4133-4152, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  60. Gladman, JT; Boyer, DM; Simons, EL; Seiffert, ER, A calcaneus attributable to the primitive late Eocene anthropoid Proteopithecus sylviae: phenetic affinities and phylogenetic implications., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 151 no. 3 (July, 2013), pp. 372-397, ISSN 0002-9483
  61. Boyer, DM; Seiffert, ER, Patterns of astragalar fibular facet orientation in extant and fossil primates and their evolutionary implications., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 151 no. 3 (July, 2013), pp. 420-447
  62. Ledogar, JA; Winchester, JM; Clair, EM; Boyer, DM, Erratum: Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013) 150 (107-121)), American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 151 no. 1 (May, 2013), pp. 169, WILEY, ISSN 0002-9483
  63. Boyer, DM; Seiffert, ER; Gladman, JT; Bloch, JI, Evolution and allometry of calcaneal elongation in living and extinct primates., Plos One, vol. 8 no. 7 (January, 2013), pp. e67792
  64. Ledogar, JA; Winchester, JM; St Clair, EM; Boyer, DM, Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 150 no. 1 (January, 2013), pp. 107-121, ISSN 0002-9483
  65. Boyer, DM; Costeur, L; Lipman, Y, Earliest record of Platychoerops (Primates, Plesiadapidae), a new species from Mouras Quarry, Mont de Berru, France., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 149 no. 3 (November, 2012), pp. 329-346
  66. Patel, BA; Seiffert, ER; Boyer, DM; Jacobs, RL; St Clair, EM; Simons, EL, New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 63 no. 1 (July, 2012), pp. 99-120, ISSN 0047-2484
  67. King, SJ; Boyer, DM; Tecot, S; Strait, SG; Zohdy, S; Blanco, MB; Wright, PC; Jernvall, J, Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 148 no. 2 (June, 2012), pp. 228-237, ISSN 0002-9483
  68. Godfrey, LR; Winchester, JM; King, SJ; Boyer, DM; Jernvall, J, Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 148 no. 2 (June, 2012), pp. 215-227, ISSN 0002-9483
  69. Coleman, MN; Boyer, DM, Inner ear evolution in primates through the Cenozoic: implications for the evolution of hearing., Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007), vol. 295 no. 4 (April, 2012), pp. 615-631, ISSN 1932-8486
  70. Boyer, DM; Scott, CS; Fox, RC, New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 147 no. 4 (April, 2012), pp. 511-550, ISSN 0002-9483
  71. Secord, R; Bloch, JI; Chester, SGB; Boyer, DM; Wood, AR; Wing, SL; Kraus, MJ; McInerney, FA; Krigbaum, J, Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 335 no. 6071 (February, 2012), pp. 959-962, ISSN 0036-8075
  72. Maiolino, S; Boyer, DM; Bloch, JI; Gilbert, CC; Groenke, J, Evidence for a grooming claw in a North American adapiform primate: implications for anthropoid origins., Plos One, vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 2012), pp. e29135, ISSN 1932-6203
  73. Maiolino, S; Boyer, DM; Rosenberger, A, Morphological correlates of the grooming claw in distal phalanges of platyrrhines and other primates: a preliminary study., Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007), vol. 294 no. 12 (December, 2011), pp. 1975-1990, ISSN 1932-8486
  74. Silcox, MT; Dalmyn, CK; Hrenchuk, A; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM; Houde, P, Endocranial morphology of Labidolemur kayi (Apatemyidae, Apatotheria) and its relevance to the study of brain evolution in Euarchontoglires, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 31 no. 6 (November, 2011), pp. 1314-1325, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0272-4634
  75. Boyer, D; Lipman, Y; Clair, ES; Puente, J; Funkhouser, T; Patel, B; Jernvall, J; Daubechies, I, Algorithms to automatically quantify the geometric similarity of anatomical surfaces, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 108 no. 45 (November, 2011), pp. 18221-18226
  76. Rose, KD; Chester, SGB; Dunn, RH; Boyer, DM; Bloch, JI, New fossils of the oldest North American euprimate Teilhardina brandti (Omomyidae) from the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 146 no. 2 (October, 2011), pp. 281-305, ISSN 0002-9483
  77. Blatch, S; Boyer, DM; King, SJ; Bunn, JM; Jernvall, J; Wright, PC, Changes in orientation of attritional wear facets with implications for jaw motion in a mixed longitudinal sample of Propithecus edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 146 no. 1 (September, 2011), pp. 116-133, ISSN 1096-8644
  78. Goswami, A; Prasad, GVR; Upchurch, P; Boyer, DM; Seiffert, ER; Verma, O; Gheerbrant, E; Flynn, JJ, A radiation of arboreal basal eutherian mammals beginning in the Late Cretaceous of India., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108 no. 39 (September, 2011), pp. 16333-16338, ISSN 0027-8424
  79. Bunn, JM; Boyer, DM; Lipman, Y; St Clair, EM; Jernvall, J; Daubechies, I, Comparing Dirichlet normal surface energy of tooth crowns, a new technique of molar shape quantification for dietary inference, with previous methods in isolation and in combination., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 145 no. 2 (June, 2011), pp. 247-261
  80. Coleman, MN; Boyer, DM, Relationships between the expression of the stapedial artery and the size of the obturator foramen in euarchontans: Functional and phylogenetic implications, Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 60 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 106-116, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0047-2484
  81. Silcox, MT; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM; Houde, P, Cranial anatomy of paleocene and eocene labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the apatemyidae to other mammals, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 160 no. 4 (December, 2010), pp. 773-825, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0024-4082
  82. Boyer, DM; Seiffert, ER; Simons, EL, Astragalar morphology of Afradapis, a large adapiform primate from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 143 no. 3 (November, 2010), pp. 383-402, ISSN 0002-9483
  83. Chester, SGB; Bloch, JI; Secord, R; Boyer, DM, A New Small-Bodied Species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 17 no. 4 (July, 2010), pp. 227-243, Springer Nature, ISSN 1064-7554
  84. Boyer, DM; Evans, AR; Jernvall, J, Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, primates)., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 142 no. 2 (June, 2010), pp. 194-210, ISSN 0002-9483
  85. Seiffert, ER; Simons, EL; Boyer, DM; Perry, JMG; Ryan, TM; Sallam, HM, A fossil primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107 no. 21 (May, 2010), pp. 9712-9717, ISSN 0027-8424
  86. Boyer, DM; Prasad, GVR; Krause, DW; Godinot, M; Goswami, A; Verma, O; Flynn, JJ, New postcrania of Deccanolestes from the Late Cretaceous of India and their bearing on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of euarchontan mammals., Die Naturwissenschaften, vol. 97 no. 4 (April, 2010), pp. 365-377, ISSN 0028-1042
  87. Clair, EMS; Boyer, DM; Bloch, JI; Krause, DW, First records of a triisodontine mammal, goniacodon levisanus, in the late paleocene of the northern great plains, North America, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 30 no. 2 (March, 2010), pp. 604-608, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0272-4634
  88. Kingston, AK; Boyer, DM; Patel, BA; Larson, SG; Stern, JT, Hallucal grasping in Nycticebus coucang: further implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 58 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 33-42, ISSN 0047-2484
  89. Silcox, MT; Bloch, JI; Boyer, DM; Godinot, M; Ryan, TM; Spoor, F; Walker, A, Erratum to "Semicircular canal system in early primates"[J. H. Evol. 56 (2009) 315-327] (DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.10.007), Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 58 no. 3 (January, 2010), pp. 279-280, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0047-2484
  90. E. R. Seiffert, E. L. Simons, D. M. Boyer, J. M. Perry, T. Ryan, H. M. sallam, A primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 107 (2010), pp. 9712-9717
  91. M. T. Silcox, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, P. Houde, Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (2010)
  92. Jacobs, RL; Boyer, DM; Patel, BA, Comparative functional morphology of the primate peroneal process., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 57 no. 6 (December, 2009), pp. 721-731, ISSN 0047-2484
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  95. Boyer, DM, Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals., Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 55 no. 6 (December, 2008), pp. 1118-1137, ISSN 0047-2484
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