Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Sarah Elton's Outputs (65)

Walking on trees (2007)
Journal Article
O'Higgins, P., & Elton, S. (2007). Walking on trees. Science, 316(5829), 1292-1294. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1143571

Observations of modern orangutans suggest that human bipedalism may have evolved in the trees rather than on the ground.

Muzzle size, paranasal swelling size and body mass in Mandrillus leucophaeus (2006)
Journal Article
Elton, S., & Morgan, B. (2006). Muzzle size, paranasal swelling size and body mass in Mandrillus leucophaeus. Primates, 47(2), 151-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-005-0164-6

The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus), a forest-living Old World monkey, is highly sexually dimorphic, with males exhibiting extreme secondary sexual characteristics, including growth of paranasal swellings on the muzzle. In this study, the size of the... Read More about Muzzle size, paranasal swelling size and body mass in Mandrillus leucophaeus.

Forty years on and still going strong: the use of hominin-cercopithecid comparisons in palaeoanthropology (2006)
Journal Article
Elton, S. (2006). Forty years on and still going strong: the use of hominin-cercopithecid comparisons in palaeoanthropology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00279.x

Hominin-cercopithecid comparisons have been used in palaeoanthropology for over forty years. Fossil cercopithecids can be used as a ‘control group’ to contextualize the adaptations and evolutionary trends of hominins. Observations made on modern cerc... Read More about Forty years on and still going strong: the use of hominin-cercopithecid comparisons in palaeoanthropology.