Elisabeth S. Vrba - Publications

Affiliations: 
Yale University, New Haven, CT 
Area:
Paleontology, Evolution and Development Biology

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2015 Vrba ES, Bibi F, Costa AG. First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. Nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.943399  0.635
2012 Bibi F, Vrba E, Fack F. A new african fossil caprin and a combined molecular and morphological bayesian phylogenetic analysis of caprini (Mammalia: Bovidae) Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25: 1843-1854. PMID 22816969 DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2012.02572.X  0.653
2010 Bibi F, Vrba ES. Unraveling bovin phylogeny: accomplishments and challenges. Bmc Biology. 8: 50. PMID 20525112 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-50  0.578
2009 White TD, Ambrose SH, Suwa G, Su DF, DeGusta D, Bernor RL, Boisserie JR, Brunet M, Delson E, Frost S, Garcia N, Giaourtsakis IX, Haile-Selassie Y, Howell FC, Lehmann T, ... ... Vrba E, et al. Macrovertebrate paleontology and the Pliocene habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science (New York, N.Y.). 326: 87-93. PMID 19810193 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1175822  0.386
2009 Bibi F, Bukhsianidze M, Gentry AW, Geraads D, Kostopoulos DS, Vrba ES. The fossil record and evolution of bovidae: State of the field Palaeontologia Electronica. 12. DOI: 10.5167/Uzh-23587  0.595
2006 Hernández Fernández M, Vrba ES. Plio-Pleistocene climatic change in the Turkana Basin (East Africa): evidence from large mammal faunas. Journal of Human Evolution. 50: 595-626. PMID 16630645 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2005.11.004  0.326
2006 White TD, WoldeGabriel G, Asfaw B, Ambrose S, Beyene Y, Bernor RL, Boisserie JR, Currie B, Gilbert H, Haile-Selassie Y, Hart WK, Hlusko LJ, Howell FC, Kono RT, Lehmann T, ... ... Vrba ES, et al. Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus. Nature. 440: 883-9. PMID 16612373 DOI: 10.1038/Nature04629  0.482
2006 Vrba ES, Haile-Selassie Y. A new antelope, Zephyreduncinus oundagaisus (Reduncini, Artiodactyla, Bovidae), from the late Miocene of the Middle Awash, Afar Rift, Ethiopia Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26: 213-218. DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[213:Anazor]2.0.Co;2  0.407
2006 Vrba ES. A possible ancestor of the living waterbuck and lechwes:Kobus basilcookeisp. nov. (Reduncini, Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Early Pliocene of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 61: 63-74. DOI: 10.1080/00359190609519954  0.412
2005 Hernández Fernández M, Vrba ES. A complete estimate of the phylogenetic relationships in Ruminantia: a dated species-level supertree of the extant ruminants. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 80: 269-302. PMID 15921052 DOI: 10.1017/S1464793104006670  0.426
2005 Vrba ES. Mass turnover and heterochrony events in response to physical change Paleobiology. 31: 157-174. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0157:Mtahei]2.0.Co;2  0.315
2005 Lieberman BS, Vrba ES. Stephen Jay Gould on species selection: 30 years of insight Paleobiology. 31: 113-121. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0113:Sjgoss]2.0.Co;2  0.477
2005 Fernández MH, Vrba ES. Body size, biomic specialization and range size of African large mammals Journal of Biogeography. 32: 1243-1256. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2699.2005.01270.X  0.41
2005 Fernández MH, Vrba ES. Rapoport effect and biomic specialization in African mammals: Revisiting the climatic variability hypothesis Journal of Biogeography. 32: 903-918. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2699.2004.01188.X  0.399
2005 DeGusta D, Vrba E. Methods for inferring paleohabitats from discrete traits of the bovid postcranial skeleton Journal of Archaeological Science. 32: 1115-1123. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2005.02.011  0.385
2005 DeGusta D, Vrba E. Methods for inferring paleohabitats from the functional morphology of bovid phalanges Journal of Archaeological Science. 32: 1099-1113. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2005.02.010  0.304
2005 Fernández MH, Vrba ES. Macroevolutionary processes and biomic specialization: Testing the resource-use hypothesis Evolutionary Ecology. 19: 199-219. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-004-8152-7  0.485
2004 Vrba ES, DeGusta D. Do species populations really start small? New perspectives from the Late Neogene fossil record of African mammals Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 359: 285-293. PMID 15101584 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2003.1397  0.509
2004 Haile-Selassie Y, Woldegabriel G, White TD, Bernor RL, Degusta D, Renne PR, Hart WK, Vrba E, Stanley A, Howell FC. Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia | Mammifères mio-pliocène du moyen Aouache, Éthiopie Geobios. 37: 536-552. DOI: 10.1016/J.Geobios.2003.03.012  0.451
2003 DeGusta D, Vrba E. A method for inferring paleohabitats from the functional morphology of bovid astragali Journal of Archaeological Science. 30: 1009-1022. DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4403(02)00286-8  0.318
2002 Asfaw B, Gilbert WH, Beyene Y, Hart WK, Renne PR, WoldeGabriel G, Vrba ES, White TD. Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature. 416: 317-20. PMID 11907576 DOI: 10.1038/416317A  0.426
1999 De Heinzelin J, Clark JD, White T, Hart W, Renne P, WoldeGabriel G, Beyene Y, Vrba E. Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids Science. 284: 625-629. PMID 10213682 DOI: 10.1126/Science.284.5414.625  0.419
1997 Gatesy J, Amato G, Vrba E, Schaller G, DeSalle R. A cladistic analysis of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA from the Bovidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 7: 303-19. PMID 9187090 DOI: 10.1006/Mpev.1997.0402  0.405
1997 Vrba ES. New fossils of Alcelaphini and caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini Palaeontologia Africana. 34: 127-198.  0.41
1996 Schaller GB, Vrba ES. Description of the giant muntjac (Megamuntiacus vuquangensis) in Laos Journal of Mammalogy. 77: 675-683. DOI: 10.2307/1382672  0.456
1996 Vrba ES. Climate, heterochrony, and human evolution Journal of Anthropological Research. 52: 1-28. DOI: 10.1086/Jar.52.1.3630234  0.411
1995 Lieberman BS, Vrba ES. Hierarchy Theory, Selection, and Sorting Bioscience. 45: 394-399. DOI: 10.2307/1312719  0.322
1994 Clark JD, De Heinzelin J, Schick KD, Hart WK, White TD, WoldeGabriel G, Walter RC, Suwa G, Asfaw B, Vrba E, H.-Selassie Y. African Homo erectus: Old radiometric ages and young Oldowan assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia Science. 264: 1907-1910. PMID 8009220 DOI: 10.1126/Science.8009220  0.309
1994 Vrba ES, Vaisnys JR, Gatesy JE, Desalle R, Wei KY. Analysis of paedomorphosis using allometric characters: The example of Reduncini antelopes (Bovidae, Mammalia) Systematic Biology. 43: 92-116. DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/43.1.92  0.327
1993 White TD, Suwa G, Hart WK, Walter RC, Woldegabriel G, Heinzelin JD, Clark JD, Asfaw B, Vrba E. New discoveries of australopithecus at maka in Ethiopia Nature. 366: 261-265. PMID 8232584 DOI: 10.1038/366261A0  0.477
1992 Vrba ES. Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory Journal of Mammalogy. 73: 1-28. DOI: 10.2307/1381862  0.433
1987 Vrba ES. Ecology in relation to speciation rates: some case histories of Miocene-Recent mammal clades Evolutionary Ecology. 1: 283-300. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02071554  0.477
1987 Vrba ES. New species and new genus of Hippotragini ( Bovidae) from Makapansgat Limeworks ( Transvaal South Africa) Palaeontologia Africana. 26: 47-58.  0.39
1986 Vrba ES, Gould SJ. The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: Sorting and selection cannot be equated Paleobiology. 12: 217-228. DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300013671  0.346
1985 Vrba ES. Environment and evolution: alternative causes of the temporal distribution of evolutionary events Palaeoclimate and Evolution I. Proc. Workshop, Palisades, Ny, 1984. 229-236.  0.316
1984 Vrba ES. What is species selection? Systematic Zoology. 33: 318-328. DOI: 10.2307/2413077  0.487
1984 Vrba ES, Eldredge N. Individuals, hierarchies and processes: towards a more complete evolutionary theory. Paleobiology. 10: 146-171. DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300008149  0.378
1983 Vrba ES. Macroevolutionary trends: New perspective on the roles of adaptation and incidental effect Science. 221: 387-389. DOI: 10.1126/Science.221.4608.387  0.432
1982 Gould SJ, Vrba ES. Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form Paleobiology. 1: 4-15. DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300004310  0.317
1979 VRBA ES. Phylogenetic analysis and classification of fossil and recent Alcelaphini Mammalia: Bovidae Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 11: 207-228. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00035.x  0.413
1979 Vrba ES. A new study of the scapula of Australopithecus africanus from Sterkfontein American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 51: 117-129. DOI: 10.1002/Ajpa.1330510114  0.343
1978 Vrba ES, Grine FE. Australopithecine enamel prism patterns Science. 202: 890-892. PMID 102032 DOI: 10.1126/Science.102032  0.449
1975 Vrba ES. Some evidence of chronology and palaeoecology of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and Kromdraai from the fossil Bovidae Nature. 254: 301-304. DOI: 10.1038/254301A0  0.421
1974 Vrba ES. Chronological and ecological implications of the fossil Bovidae at the Sterkfontein Australopithecine site Nature. 250: 19-23. DOI: 10.1038/250019A0  0.317
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