Journal articles and book sections

Manfreda E, Mitteroecker P, Schaefer K. (submitted) Functional morphology of the first cervical vertebra in humans and non-human primates. The Anatomical Record.

Fieder M, Prossinger H, Iber K, Schaefer K., Wallner B, Huber S (2006, accepted). Season-of-birth contributes to variation of university examination outcomes.

Schaefer K., Grammer K, Fink B, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL (2006, in press) Female appearance: facial and bodily attractiveness as shape. Psychology Science.

Jonke E, Prossinger H, Bookstein FL, Schaefer K., Bernhard M, Freudenthaler J (2006, in press) Secular trends in the facial skull from the 19th century to the present analyzed with geometric morphometrics. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

Schaefer K., Lauc T, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL (2006) Dental arch asymmetry in an isolated community. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129: 132-142.

Schaefer K., Fink B, Neave N, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2005) Visualizing facial shape regression upon 2nd to 4th digit ratio and testosterone. Collegium Antropologicum 29(2): 215-219.

Fink B, Grammer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Schaefer K., Bookstein FL, Manning J (2005) Second to forth digit ratio and face shape. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 272 (1574): 1995–2001.

Fieder M, Huber S, Bookstein FL, Iber K, Schaefer K., Winckler G, Wallner B (2005) Status and reproduction in humans: new evidence for the validity of evolutionary explanations on basis of a university sample. Ethology 111: 940–950.

Schaefer K., Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Szikossy I, Prossinger H, Weber G, Recheis W, Seidler H (2005) The frontal cranial profile of Le Moustier 1. In: H. Ullrich (ed .) The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1 — New Aspects, New Results. Berliner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin. pp 149–154.

Prossinger H, Seidler H, Teschler-Nicola M, Schaefer K., Weber GW, Recheis W, Szikossy I, zur Nedden D (2005) Neandertal versus modern frontal sinuses: Preliminary considerations of ontogenetic aspects of their morphologies and volumes. In: H. Ullrich (ed.) The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1 — New Aspects, New Results. Berliner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte.

Urbanek C, Faupl P, Hujer W, Ntaflos T, Richter W, Weber G, Schaefer K., Viola B, Gunz P, Neubauer S, Stadlmayr A, Kullmer O, Sandrock O, Nagel D, Conroy G, Falk D, Woldearegay K, Said H, Assefa G, Seidler H (2005) Geology, Paleontology and Paleoantropology of the Mount Galili Formation in the southern Afar Depression, Ethiopia – Preliminary results. Joannea Geologie und Paläontologie 6: 29-43.

Macchiarelli R, Bondioli L, Falk D, Faupl P, Illerhaus B, Kullmer O, Richter W, Said H, Sandrock O, Schaefer K., Urbanek C, Viola TB, Weber GW, Seidler H (2004) Early Pliocene hominid tooth from Galili, Somali Region, Ethiopia. Collegium Antropologicum 28 (2): 65-76.

Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Bookstein FL (2004) Craniofacial sexual dimorphism patterns and allometry among extant hominoids. Annals of Anatomy 186: 471–478.

Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Schaefer K., Bookstein F (2004) Comparison of cranial ontogenetic trajectories among hominoids. Journal of Human Evolution 46: 679-697.

Jonke E, Schaefer K., Freudenthaler JW, Prossinger H, Bookstein FL (2003) A cephalometric comparison of skulls from different time periods: the Bronze age, the 19th century and the present. Collegium Antropologicum 27/2: 789–801.

Bookstein FL, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Prossinger H, Schaefer K, Seidler H. (2003) Cranial integration in Homo : singular warps analysis of the mid-sagittal plane in ontogeny and evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 44: 167–187.

Bernhard M, Schaefer K., Seidler H (2002) Numerical description of selected endo- and ectocranial dimensions in Homo sapiens and the Homo heidelbergensis: Kabwe, Petralona, and Petralona. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 60 4:321–332.

Bernhard M, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Seidler H (2001) Comparison of ectocranial and endocranial variation in Homo sapiens . In: M Schultz, K Atzwanger, G Bräuer, K Christiansen, J Forster, H Greil, W Henke, U Jaeger, C Niemitz, C Scheffler, W Schiefenhövel, I Schöder, I Wiechmann (eds) Homo—unsere Herkunft und Zukunft . Proceedings of the 4 th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Anthropologie (GfA). Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen. pp. 36–42.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (2001) Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Untersuchung zum sozialintegrativen Potential von Stadtplätzen. In: Chr. Suetterlin, FK Salter (eds.) Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Zu Person und Werk. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang. pp. 261–273.

Schaefer K., Seidler, H, Bookstein F, Prossinger H, Falk D, Conroy G (2001) Exo- and endocranial Morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and Modern Humans. In: D Falk and K Gibson (eds.) Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp 290–304.

Weber GW, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Gunz P, Mitteröcker P, Seidler H (2001) Virtual anthropology: the digital evolution in anthropological sciences. Journal of Physiological. Anthropology and Applied Human Sciences 20: 69–80.

Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Seidler H (2000) Covjek (Man), Croatian Encyclopedia. Vol. 2, Croatian Lexicographic Institute ‘Miroslav Krleza', Zagreb.

Lauc T, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Šlaj M (2000) Orofacial analysis on the adriatic islands 1: the island of Hvar as a model for odontogenetic researches. Coll Antropol S24: 63–69.

Prossinger H, Bookstein F, Schaefer K., Seidler H (2000). Re-emerging stress: Supraorbital torus morphology in the mid-sagittal plane? The Anatomical Record (New Anat.) 261: 170–172.

Schaefer K. (invited ed. 1999) Introduction. Coll Antropol 23 2: 329–332.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K, Wallner B, Grammer K (1999) Human evolutionary aspects and urban dwelling features. Collegium Antropologicum 23 2: 369-378.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1999) Xenophobie—aus verhaltensbiologischer Sicht. In: I Etzerdorfer, M Ley (eds.) Menschenangst — Die Angst vor dem Fremden. Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin. pp 33–49.

Schaefer K., Wallner B (1999) Gedanken zur Sexualität weiblicher Primaten. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien (MAGW) 129: 13–22.

Bookstein F, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Fieder M, Seidler H, Stringer C, Weber GW, Arsuaga JL, Slice D, Rohlf FJ, Recheis W, Mariam AJ, Marcus LF (1999) Comparing frontal cranial profiles in archaic and modern Homo by morphometric analysis. The Anatomical Record (New Anat.) 257: 217–224.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1999) Individuelle und kulturelle Vielfalt im Verhalten. In: I Etzerdorfer, M Ley (eds.) Menschenangst – Die Angst vor dem Fremden. Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin. pp 19–32.

Atzwanger K, Schaefer K. (1999) Evolutionary approaches to the perception of urban spaces. Evolution and Cognition 5 1: 1–6.

Recheis W, Weber GW, Schaefer K., Knapp R, Seidler H, zur Nedden D (1999) Virtual reality and anthropology. European Journal of Radiology 31: 88–96.

Recheis W, Weber G, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Knapp R, Seidler H, zur Nedden D (1999). New Methods and Techniques in Anthropology. Coll Antropol 23 2: 495 – 509.

Prossinger H, Seidler H, Weaver DS, Schaefer K., Fieder M, Weber GW (1999) The Iceman under Pressure (Part I): A Description of Skull Deformations due to 5100 Years of Glacial Action. Coll Antropol 23 2: 345–367.

Recheis W, Macchiarelli R, Seidler H, Weaver DS, Schaefer K., Bondioli L, Weber GW, zur Nedden D (1999) Re-evaluation of the endocranial volume of the Guattari 1 Neandertal specimen (Monte Circeo). Coll Antropol 23 2: 397–404.

Schaefer K., Grammer K (1998) Vivienda urbana y compartimiento humano. Revista Trabajo Social , Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico 20: 53–57.

Schaefer K., Grammer K (1996) Wohlbefinden in Wohnanlagen—Eine humanethologische Feldstudie. In: D Röller (ed.) Stadt und Mensch zwischen Chaos und Ordnung, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. pp 161–170.

Oral and poster presentations

Schaefer K., Gunz P, Fenes C, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2006) Can Khoi San cranial morphology be explained by paedomorphism? Oral presentation at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Anchorage, Alaska.

Schaefer K. (2006) Einsichten und Ausblicke: Die menschliche Gesichtsform aus dem Blickwinkel der Evolutionären Anthropologie. Zoologisch-Anthropologisches Kolloquium, Universität Göttingen, Germany.

Schaefer K., Fink B, Grammer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Neave N, Bookstein FL, Seidler H, Manning JT (2005) The "phrenology" of testosterone: studies in the endocrinology and psychology of facial form. 74th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Schaefer K., Seidler H (2005) Studies in the biology and psychology of human facial form. 3rd International Conference on Science, Cultural and Natural Heritage. Mekelle, Ethiopia.

Schaefer K. (2005) Sexualdimorphismus bei Homo sapiens: Ursachen und Konsequenzen. Vortragsreihe: Rätsel der Menschwerdung at Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Fink B, Schaefer K., Grammer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Neave N, Bookstein FL, Seidler H, & Manning JT (2005). Second to fourth digit ratio and face shape. 21th Conference of the British Psychological Society, Mar 30th-Apr 2nd, Manchester, UK.

Schaefer K. , Mitteroecker P , Gunz P , Bernhard M , Seidler H , Bookstein FL (2004).
(Non) allometric craniofacial sexual dimorphism in hominoids. 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tampa, Florida, USA.

Schaefer K. (2004) Woher kommt der Mensch? Inner Wheel Meeting Bremen Hansa. Bremen, Germany.

Schaefer K. (2004) Shape Analysis of Hominid Variation. Anthropologisches Kolloquium, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Schaefer K. (2004) Shape analysis of hominid diversity – Insights and challenges. Habilitation talk. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.

Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Seidler H (2003) Cranial sexual dimorphism, allometry and mating system among hominoids. 1st International Workshop on Evolutionary Changes in the Craniofacial Morphology of Primates. Greifswald, Germany.

Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL, Grammer K (2003) Female attractiveness—Physical appearance as shape. 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tempe, AZ, USA.

Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Lauc T, Grammer K (2002) A more detailed look at fluctuating asymmetry in anthropology. 13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association. Zagreb, Croatia.

Schaefer K., Lauc T, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P (2002) Does dental arch asymmetry in adriatic island populations reflect developmental instability? 71st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Buffalo, NY, USA.

Schaefer K., Seidler H (2002) Shape and size of the frontal bone in modern and archaic humans. 4th Phillip V. Tobias Lectures on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Bodo Skull. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Schaefer K., Seidler H, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Prossinger H, Weber GW (2001) Frontal cranial profiles of archaic and modern subadult and adult humans. 70th Annual Meeting of the American. Association of Physical Anthropologists. Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Schaefer K., Seidler H, Prossinger H, Weber GW (2000) Exo- and endocranial morphometrics and the implications for mid-Pleistocene crania descriptions, 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Schaefer K. (1999) Morphological aspects of the cranial vault in Homo: A CT-based analysis. IV th International Congress of Aleš Hrdlicka "World Anthropology on the Turn of the Centuries". Prague-Humpolec, Czech Republic.

Schaefer K., Recheis W, Macchiarelli R, Seidler H, Weaver DS, Bondioli L, Weber GW, zur Nedden D (1999) Re-evaluation of the endocranial volume of Guattari 1. International Conference ‘The Krapina Neandertals and Human Evolution in Central Europe'. Zagreb/Krapina, Croatia.

Schaefer K., Seidler H, Scholze T, Prossinger H, Fieder M (1999) Morphometric approaches to the shape of the frontal bone vault. 3 rd Philipp V. Tobias Lectures: Evolution of the Human Brain. Vienna, Austria.

Schaefer K., Seidler H, Scholze T, Fieder M, Prossinger H, Weber G, Recheis W (1999) Position and morphology of the forebrain in genus Homo: Implications due to differently chosen planar sections. IIIrd Conference of the International Biometry Society. Rome, Italy.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1998) Behavioural responses to urban environments relating to their habitat quality indicating features. Dual Congress. Sun City, South Africa.

Schaefer K., Seidler H, Fieder M, Prossinger H (1998) State of Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology. Vienna Morphometric Workshop, 2nd Zumtobel Lectures. Vienna, Austria.

Schaefer K. (1997) Xenophobie—aus soziobiologischer Sicht. 1st workshop 'Das Phaenomen Xenophobie als transdisziplinärer Ansatz'. Zentrum für Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Studien der Universität Wien. Vienna, Austria.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1997) Social cohesion and physical incivilities in urban habitats. XXV. International Ethological Conference. Vienna, Austria.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1996) Phylogenetic constraints on behavior in public places. 8th Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Schaefer K., Grammer K (1994) Urban living and human behavior. 12th International Congress for Human Ethology. Toronto, Canada.

Schaefer K., Grammer K (1994) Kommunikation und Wohlbefinden in Wohnanlagen. Semiotisches Symposium: Menschen in der Stadt—zwischen Ordnung und Chaos. Oldenburg, Germany.

Schaefer K., Grammer K (1994) Die Lebendigkeit von Plätzen. Stadtwerkstatt: Die Lebendigkeit von Plätzen—öffentlicher Raum und seine Nutzung. Vienna, Austria.

Peer reviewed abstracts

Lauc T, Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Ferreri S, Bookstein FL (2006, accepted) Geometric morphometric analyses of dental arch asymmetry in a genetically isolated Adriatic community. Proceedings of the 82nd Congress of the European Orthodontic Society, Vienna, Austria.

Schaefer K., Gunz P, Fenes C, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2006) Can Khoi San cranial morphology be explained by paedomorphism? Am J Phys Anthropol 129 S42: 158.

Manfreda E, Mitteroecker P, Schaefer K. (2006) Functional and evolutionary anatomy of the primate atlas: a geometric morphometric approach. Am J Phys Anthropol 129 S42: 124.

Schaefer K., Fink B, Grammer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Neave, N, Bookstein FL, Seidler H, Manning JT (2005) The "phrenology" of testosterone: studies in the endocrinology and psychology of facial form. Am J Phys Anthropol 126, S40: 182.

Jonke E, Prossinger H, Bookstein FL, Schaefer K., Bernhard M, Freudenthaler JW (2005) Secular trends in the male facial skull from the 19th century to the present analysed with geometric morphometrics. Am J Phys Anthropol 126, S40: 124.

Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Seidler H, Bookstein FL (2004) (Non)allometric craniofacial sexual dimorphism in hominoids. Am J Phys Anthropol 123 S38: 173.

Bookstein FL, Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Seidler H (2004) The geometry of anthropometrics: A new typology of landmarks. Am J Phys Anthropol 123 S38: 66.

Viola TB, Urbanek C, Schaefer K., Weber GW, Kullmer O, Sandrock O, Said H, Seidler H (2004) GIS and Palaeoanthropological Surveys—Experiences. Am J Phys Anthropol 123 S38: 201.

Slice DE, Unteregger C, Schaefer K., Bookstein FL (2004) Digitizing is not a task for research assistants, or modeling the precision of landmark location data. Am J Phys Anthropol 123 S38: 183.

Latkoczy C, Teschler-Nicola M, Schaefer K., Viola TB, Seidler H, Weber GW, Derevianko AP, Prohaska T, Schultheis G, Stingeder G, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P. (2004) Trace element, strontium isotopic ratio, and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of Pleistocene human teeth from the Altai. Am J Phys Anthropol 123 S38: 132.

Schaefer K., Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL, Grammer K (2003) Female attractiveness-Physical appearance as shape. Am J Phys Anthropol 120 S36: 183.

Bookstein FL, Schaefer K. (2003) Decomposing directional asymmetry for bilateral landmark data: Applications to the adult human face and body. Am J Phys Anthropol 120 S36: 70.

Bernhard M, Schaefer K., Gunz P, Mitteröcker P, Prossinger H, Bookstein FL, Seidler H (2003) Cranial sexual dimorphism, allometry and mating systems among hominoids. Am J Phys Anthropol 120 S36: 65.

Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Schaefer K. (2003) Is the bonobo growth trajectory the ancestral one for the hominoidea ? Am J Phys Anthropol 120 S36: 152.

Bernhard M, Prossinger H, Gunz P, Mitteröcker P, Schaefer K., Seidler H (2002) A comparison of ectocranial shape morphology in hominoids using geometric morphomnetrics. Coll Antropol 26 Suppl: 22.

Schaefer K., Mitteröcker P, Lauc T, Grammer K. (2002) A more detailed look at fluctuating asymmetry in anthropology. Coll Antropol 26 Suppl: 182.

Schaefer K., Lauc T, Mitteröcker P, Gunz P (2002) Does dental arch asymmetry in adriatic island populations reflect developmental instability? Am J Phys Anthropol 117 S34: 135.

Seidler H, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Mitteröcker P, Gunz P, Weber GW, Bookstein FL (2002) Morphological integration 2: Developmetal interactions during ontogeny and phylogeny in the human cranium. Am J Phys Anthropol 117 S34: 138.

Bookstein FL, Gunz P, Hirsch I, Mitteröcker P, Prossinger H, Schaefer K., Unteregger C, Wimmer B, Seidler H (2002) Using singular warps to study morphological integration. Am J Phys Anthropol 117 S34: 46.

Schaefer K., Seidler H, Gunz P, Mitteröcker P, Prossinger H, Weber GW (2001) Frontal cranial profiles of archaic and modern subadult and adult humans. Am J Phys Anthropol 114 S32: 131.

Seidler H, Schaefer K., Prossinger H & Weber GW (2000) Exo- and endocranial morphometrics and the implications for mid-Pleistocene crania descriptions. Am J Phys Anthropo l 111 S30: 277.

Bernhard M, Schaefer K., Prossinger H, Seidler H (2000) Exocraniale und endocraniale Anthropometrie bei H. sapiens und H. heidelbergensis - Traditional versus Geometric Morphometrics. HOMO 51 Suppl: 5.

Wallner B, Schaefer K., Möstl E (1999) Gonadal steroid concentrations influenced by levonorgestrel: Implanted versus non-implanted females of macaca sylvanus. Am J Primatol 49 1: 111.

Seidler H , Weber GW, Recheis W, Schaefer K. & zur Nedden D (2000) Evolution of Cerebellum. Medical image techniques lead to phylogenetic interpretations of sensomotoric coordination and cognition. Europ Radiol 1/10. 2 Suppl: 254.

Atzwanger K, Schaefer K. (1998) Human habitat quality and interactonal behavior. HOMO 49 Suppl: 3.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1998) Behavioural responses to urban environments in relation to features which are indicators of habitat quality. In: MA Rath, H Soodyall, D Barkhan, KL Kuykendall, PV Tobias (Hrsg) Abstracts of Contributions to the Dual Congress 1998. Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, p: 79.

Schaefer K., Atzwanger K (1997) Social cohesion and physical incivilities in urban habitats. In: Taborski M, Taborski B (eds.) Advances in Ethology to 'Ethology' formerly Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 32 Suppl: 286.

Atzwanger K, Schaefer K., Sütterlin C, Kruck K (1997) Habitat quality and cooperation in humans. In: Taborski M, Taborski B (eds.) Advances in Ethology (Suppl.) 32 to 'Ethology' formerly Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie: 283.