Publications
Peer-reviewed journal papers
Herler J, Maderbacher M, Mitteroecker P, Postl L, Sturmbauer C (2009) Sexual dimorphism and population divergence in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish genus Tropheus. Frontiers in Zoology 7:4 pdf
Mitteroecker P (2009) The developmental basis of variational modularity: Insights from quantitative genetics, morphometrics, and developmental biology. Evolutionary Biology 36(4), 377-385
Mitteroecker P, Huttegger S (2009) The Concept of Morphospaces in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology: Mathematics and Metaphors. Biological Theory 4(1), 54-67 pdf
Schaefer K, Mitteroecker P, Fink B, Bookstein FL (2009) Psychomorphospace — from biology to perception, and back: Towards an integrated quantification of facial form variation. Biological Theory 4(1), 98-106
Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2009) Examining modularity via partial correlations: A rejoinder to a comment by Paul Magwene. Systematic Biology 58(3):346-348
Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Neubauer S, Weber GW, Bookstein FL (2009) Principles for the Virtual Reconstruction of hominin crania. Journal of Human Evolution 57(1), 48-62
Mitteroecker P, Gunz P. (2009) Advances in geometric morphometrics. Evolutionary Biology 36(2), 235-247. pdf
Gunz P, Bookstein FL, Mitteroecker P, Stadlmayr A, Seidler H, Weber GW (2009) Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided population structure and a complex out-of-Africa scenario. PNAS 106(15), 6094–98
Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2009) The Ontogenetic
Trajectory of the Phenotypic Covariance Matrix, with Examples from
Craniofacial Shape in Rats and Humans. Evolution 63 (3), 727-737
Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2008) The Evolutionary Role of Modularity and Integration in the Hominoid Cranium. Evolution 62 (4), 943-958. pdf
Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2007) The Conceptual and Statistical Relationship between Modularity and Morphological Integration. Systematic Biology 56 (5), 818–836. pdf
Bulygina E, Mitteroecker P, Aiello LC (2006) Ontogeny of facial dimorphism and patterns of individual development within one human population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131 (3), 432-443. pdf
Manfreda E, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL, Schaefer K (2006) Functional morphology of the first cervical vertebra in humans and non-human primates. Anatomical Record, Part B: The New Anatomist 289 (5), 184-194. pdf
Schaefer K, Fink B, Grammer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL (2006) Female appearance: Facial and bodily attractiveness as shape. Psychology Science 48(2), 187–204
Schaefer K, Lauc T, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL (2006) Dental Arch Asymmetry in an Isolated Adriatic Community. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129 (1), 132–42. pdf
Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bookstein FL (2005) Heterochrony and geometric morphometrics: A comparison of cranial growth in Pan paniscus versus Pan troglodytes. Evolution & Development 7, 244–258. pdf
Fink B, Grammer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Schaefer K, Bookstein FL, Manning JT (2005) Second to fourth digit ratio and face shape. Proceedings of the Royal SocietyB 272 (1576), 1995–2001. link
Schaefer K, Fink B, Mitteroecker P, Neave N, Bookstein FL (2005) Visualizing facial shape regression upon 2nd to 4th digit ratio and testosterone. Collegium Antropologicum 29 (2), 415–419. pdf
Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Schaefer K, Bookstein FL (2004) Comparison of cranial ontogenetic trajectories among hominoids. Journal of Human Evolution, 46 (6), 679–698. pdf
Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Weber GW, Bookstein FL (2004) Regional dissociated heterochrony in multivariate analysis. Annals of Anatomy, 186 (5–6), 463–470.pdf
Schaefer K, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Bernhard M, Bookstein FL (2004) Craniofacial Dimorphism Patterns and Allometry among Hominoids. Annals of Anatomy, 186 (5–6), 471–478. pdf
Neubauer S, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Weber GW (2004). Three-dimensional digital imaging of the partial Australopithecus africanus endocranium MLD 37/38. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal, 55 (4), 271–278. pdf
Bookstein FL, Slice DE, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P (2004) Anthropology takes control of morphometrics. Collegium Antropologicum 28:121–32.
Grammer K, Fink B, Oberzaucher L, Atzmüller M, Blantar I, Mitteroecker P (2004). The Representation of Self Reported Affect in Body Posture and Body Posture Simulation. Collegium Antropologicum 28:159–174.
Bookstein F, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Prossinger H, Schaefer K, Seidler H (2003) Cranial integration in Homo reassessed: Morphometrics of the mid-sagittal plane in ontogeny and evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 44:167–187. link
Weber GW, Schaefer K, Prossinger H, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Seidler H (2001) Virtual anthropology: the digital evolution in anthropological sciences. Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science 20:69–80.
Book contributions
Weber GW, Gunz P, Neubauer S, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL. (in press) Digital South African Fossils: Morphological studies using reference based reconstruction and electronic preparation. In: Proceedings of the African Genesis Symposium.
Weber GW, Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Neubauer S, Bookstein FL. (2008) Virtual Anthropology and Geometric Morphometrics - paleoanthropological applications and the dissemination of know-how and data. In: Hoppa R, Nelson A, editors. Advanced Imaging in Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology: Acquisition, Analysis and Dissemination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Teschler-Nicola M, Mitteroecker P (2007) Von künstlicher Kopfformung. In: "Attila und die Hunnen", Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer (ed.) Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag
Weber GW, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Stadlmayr A, Bookstein FL, Seidler H (2006) External geometry of Mladec neurocrania compared with anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals. In Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate: Mladec Caves and their Remains. Teschler-Nicola M (ed.) New York: Springer.
Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL (2005) Semilandmarks in three Dimensions. In Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology.Slice D (ed.) Kluwer Press.
Schaefer K, Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Szikossy I, Prossinger H, Weber GW, Recheis W, Seidler H (2005) The frontal cranial profile of Le Moustier 1. In The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1 - New Aspects, New Results. Ullrich H (ed.) Berlin: Berliner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
Mitteroecker P, Gunz P, Teschler-Nicola M, Weber GW (2004) New Morphometric Methods in Paleopathology: Shape Analysis of a Neolithic Hydrocephalus. Enter the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, BAR International Series 1227 (pp. 96–98). Oxford: Archaeopress. pdf
Gunz P, Mitteroecker P, Bookstein FL, Weber GW (2004). Computer-aided reconstruction of incomplete human crania using statistical and geometrical estimation methods. Enter the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, BAR International Series 1227 (pp. 92–94). Oxford: Archaeopress.pdf
Theses
Assessment of human preadolescent cranial growth and its implications for human evolution (2001) Master Thesis, Advisors: Fred Bookstein, Horst Seidler
Evolutionary and developmental morphometrics of the hominoid cranium (2007) Ph.D. Thesis, Advisors: Fred Bookstein, Gerhard Weber, Horst Seidler pdf