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William Jungers
PeerJ Editor
2,335 Points

Contributions by role

Editor 2,335

Contributions by subject area

Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Anthropology
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Zoology
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Conservation Biology
Histology
Anatomy and Physiology
Mathematical Biology
Developmental Biology
Biogeography
Animal Behavior
Bioengineering
Computational Biology

William L Jungers

PeerJ Editor

Summary

B.A. in Anthropology from Oberlin College (1970), Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Biological Anthropology (1976). Faculty member at Stony Brook University School of Medicine since 1978. Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor since 2016. Currently a Research Associate at Association Vahatra in Madagascar. My research interests focus on the evolutionary and functional anatomy of primates and paleoanthropology, with a special interest in "size and scaling" and quantitative methods. I've also conducted paleontological field work in Madagascar and Indonesia.

Anatomy & Physiology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chairman

Stony Brook University
Department of Anatomical Sciences

Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chairman

School of Medicine
Department of Anatomical Sciences

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 19

Academic Editor on

January 14, 2019
Combining legacy data with new drone and DGPS mapping to identify the provenance of Plio-Pleistocene fossils from Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind (South Africa)
Tara R. Edwards, Brian J. Armstrong, Jessie Birkett-Rees, Alexander F. Blackwood, Andy I.R. Herries, Paul Penzo-Kajewski, Robyn Pickering, Justin W. Adams
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6202 PubMed 30656072
August 16, 2018
Manual restrictions on Palaeolithic technological behaviours
Alastair J.M. Key, Christopher J. Dunmore
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5399 PubMed 30128191
August 6, 2018
Fossil mammals from the Gondolin Dump A ex situ hominin deposits, South Africa
Justin W. Adams
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5393 PubMed 30123713
July 5, 2018
Trabecular bone patterning in the hominoid distal femur
Leoni Georgiou, Tracy L. Kivell, Dieter H. Pahr, Matthew M. Skinner
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5156 PubMed 30002981
December 5, 2017
Neither slim nor fat: estimating the mass of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus, Aves, Columbiformes) based on the largest sample of dodo bones to date
Anneke H. van Heteren, Roland C.H. van Dierendonck, Maria A.N.E. van Egmond, Sjang L. ten Hagen, Jippe Kreuning
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4110 PubMed 29230358
September 22, 2017
Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees
Elisa Bandini, Claudio Tennie
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3814 PubMed 28951813
August 17, 2017
Late Pleistocene songbirds of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia); the first fossil passerine fauna described from Wallacea
Hanneke J.M. Meijer, Rokus Awe Due, Thomas Sutikna, Wahyu Saptomo, Jatmiko, Sri Wasisto, Matthew W. Tocheri, Gerald Mayr
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3676 PubMed 28828271
April 27, 2017
Agerinia marandati sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula, sheds new light on the evolution of the genus Agerinia
Joan Femenias-Gual, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Judit Marigó, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Salvador Moyà-Solà
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3239 PubMed 28462042
March 14, 2017
Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus Stephanorhinus and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae
Frido Welker, Geoff M. Smith, Jarod M. Hutson, Lutz Kindler, Alejandro Garcia-Moreno, Aritza Villaluenga, Elaine Turner, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3033 PubMed 28316883
October 13, 2016
Histological variability in the limb bones of the Asiatic wild ass and its significance for life history inferences
Carmen Nacarino-Meneses, Xavier Jordana, Meike Köhler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2580 PubMed 27761353
July 26, 2016
Human feeding biomechanics: performance, variation, and functional constraints
Justin A. Ledogar, Paul C. Dechow, Qian Wang, Poorva H. Gharpure, Adam D. Gordon, Karen L. Baab, Amanda L. Smith, Gerhard W. Weber, Ian R. Grosse, Callum F. Ross, Brian G. Richmond, Barth W. Wright, Craig Byron, Stephen Wroe, David S. Strait
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2242 PubMed 27547550
May 11, 2016
The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa
AB Leece, Anthony D.T. Kegley, Rodrigo S. Lacruz, Andy I.R. Herries, Jason Hemingway, Lazarus Kgasi, Stephany Potze, Justin W. Adams
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2024 PubMed 27190720
April 18, 2016
Macromammalian faunas, biochronology and palaeoecology of the early Pleistocene Main Quarry hominin-bearing deposits of the Drimolen Palaeocave System, South Africa
Justin W. Adams, Douglass S. Rovinsky, Andy I.R. Herries, Colin G. Menter
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1941 PubMed 27114884
January 4, 2016
First steps of bipedality in hominids: evidence from the atelid and proconsulid pelvis
Allison L. Machnicki, Linda B. Spurlock, Karen B. Strier, Philip L. Reno, C. Owen Lovejoy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1521 PubMed 26793418
July 7, 2015
Taxonomic identification of Lower Pleistocene fossil hominins based on distal humeral diaphyseal cross-sectional shape
Michael R. Lague
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1084 PubMed 26213653
April 28, 2015
From Lucy to Kadanuumuu: balanced analyses of Australopithecus afarensis assemblages confirm only moderate skeletal dimorphism
Philip L. Reno, C. Owen Lovejoy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.925 PubMed 25945314
May 15, 2014
On growth and form of irregular coiled-shell of a terrestrial snail: Plectostoma concinnum (Fulton, 1901) (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Diplommatinidae)
Thor-Seng Liew, Annebelle C.M. Kok, Menno Schilthuizen, Severine Urdy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.383 PubMed 24883245
October 29, 2013
A new species of the archaic primate Zanycteris from the late Paleocene of western Colorado and the phylogenetic position of the family Picrodontidae
Benjamin John Burger
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.191 PubMed 24255808
September 12, 2013
Masticatory biomechanics of the Laotian rock rat, Laonastes aenigmamus, and the function of the zygomaticomandibularis muscle
Philip G. Cox, Joanna Kirkham, Anthony Herrel
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.160 PubMed 24058888