Lab Publication List

Jaimes A, Vargas D, Becerra-Valdivia L, Lari M, Modi A, Mafessoni F, Barbieri C, Sánchez Villagra MR Late-Holocene maize diversity and cultural remains from the Northern Neotropics: the site of Cueva La Capilla, Venezuelan Andes. Latin American Antiquity. (in press)

Le Verger K, Allione F, Wang B, Weisse B, Ijspeert AJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Scheyer TM, Jusufi A (2026) Palaeorobotics uncovers devastating mammalian tail strike dynamics. bioRxiv:2026.04.21.718724 [doi: 10.64898/2026.04.21.718724].

Ono K, Aguirre-Fernández G, Lewy M, Yamashita F, Lambos B, Jorgewich-Cohen G, Tanferri Machado M, Tassone C, Bertazoni C, Sommer-Trembo C, Sánchez-Villagra MR A Cross-cultural survey of Indigenous views on interspecies communication – Towards a consilience of views with academic science across disciplines. Anartia (in press)

Arias-Martorell J, Raventós-Izard G, Monclús-Gonzalo O, Urciuoli A, Gamarra J, Nakatsukasa M, Moyà-Solà S, Alba DM (2026) Ape-like locomotor adaptations in the radius of the stem catarrhine Pliobates shed light on hominoid evolution. iScience 29 (2):114622 [doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114622].

Balcarcel AM, Fabre A-C, Orliac MJ, Le Verger K, Selba M, Hipsley CA, Evin A (2026) Mosaic evolution and increased integration underpin the evolvability of the dog brain. Evolution 80 (4):735–750 [doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpag002].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Chichkoyan KV, Jaimes A, Becerra-Valdivia L, Wilson OE, Le Verger K, Mothé D, Vargas D, Reyes-Céspedes AE, Hilbert L, Sánchez R, Gilson N, Tombret O, Bauville A, Libot M, Carlini AA, Zazzo A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2026) Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America. bioRxiv:2026.01.22.701027 [doi: 10.64898/2026.01.22.701027].

Sánchez-Villagra MR (2026) Attachements: Enquête sur nos liens au-delà de l'humain [Attachments: An Inquiry Into Our Bonds Beyond the Human] By Charles Stépanoff, Paris: La Découverte, 2024. 640 pp. Paperback. 27 Euros. ISBN: 10: 234808113X. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 35 (2):e70030 [doi: 10.1002/evan.70030].

Scarborough ME, Furrer H, Scheyer TM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2026) Anatomy of a perinatal woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Niederweningen (Late Pleistocene), Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145:487-504 [doi: 10.3897/sjp.145.183721].

Urciuoli A, Zanolli C, Bouchet F, Arias-Martorell J, Costeur L, Rook L, Alba DM (2026) New evidence from the bony labyrinth and teeth of the Late Miocene ape Oreopithecus based on a partial cranium from Baccinello. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33 6 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-025-09793-0].

Ward SM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Raymond C, Rangel-de Lazaro G, Lynch S, Wilson LAB (2026) Intentional cranial modifications in the Americas: The temporal and spatial patterns of potential transmissions and cultural innovations. iScience 29 (5) [doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115643].