Alejandra Ortiz is a biological anthropologist specializing in ape and human evolution. She has conducted research in Peru, England, France, Germany, Tanzania, and South Africa.
Alejandra Ortiz
PhD in Biological Anthropology, New York University, 2016
Human skeletal biology, paleoanthropology, dental anthropology, growth and development, hominoid systematics, Asian apes, modern human origins, peopling of the New World, virtual anthropology
Gilbert, C.C., Ortiz, A., Pugh, K.D., Campisano, C.J., Patel, B.A., Singh, N.P., Fleagle, J.G., Patnaik, R. New middle Miocene ape from Ramnagar, India fills long-standing gaps in the hominoid fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, accepted.
Ortiz, A., Bailey, S.E., Schander-Triplett, K., Hublin, J.-J., Skinner, M.M., Schwartz, G.T. Enamel thickness variation in the deciduous dentition of extant large-bodied hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, in press.
Ortiz, A., Bailey, S.E., Delgado, M., Zanolli, C., Demeter, F., Bacon, A.-M., Nguyen, T.M.H., Nguyen, A.T., Zhang, Y., Harrison, T., Hublin, J.-J., Skinner, M.M. 2019. A distinguishing feature of Pongo upper molars and its implications for the taxonomic identification of isolated hominid teeth from the Pleistocene of Asia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 170: 595-612.
Ortiz, A., Zhang, Y., Jin, C., Wang, Y., Zhu, M., Yan, Y., Kimock, C., Villamil, C.I., He, K., Harrison, T. 2019. Morphometric analysis of fossil hylobatid molars from the Pleistocene of southern China. Anthropological Science, 127: 109-121.
Turvey, S.T., Bruun, K., Ortiz, A., Hansford, J., Hu, S., Ding, Y., Zhang, T., Chatterjee, H. 2018. New genus of extinct Holocene gibbon associated with humans in Imperial China. Science 360: 1346-1349.
Zhang, Y.-Q., Jin, C.-Z., Wang, Y., Ortiz, A., He, K., Harrison, T. 2018. Fossil gibbons (Mammalia, Hylobatidae) from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 56: 248-263.
Ortiz, A., Bailey, S.E., Schwartz, G., Hublin, J.-J., Skinner, M.M. 2018. Evo-devo models of tooth development and the origin of hominoid molar diversity. Science Advances 4: eaar2334.
Ortiz, A., Bailey, S.E., Hublin, J.-J., Skinner, M.M. 2017. Homology, homoplasy, and cusp variability at the enamel-dentine junction of hominoid molars. Journal of Anatomy 231: 585-599.
Fan, P.F., He, K., Chen, X., Ortiz, A., Zhang, B., Zhao, C., Li, Y.Q., Zhang, H.B., Kimock, C., Wang, W.Z., Groves, C., Turvey, S.T., Roos, C., Helgen, K.M., Jiang, X.L. 2017. Description of a new species of Hoolock gibbon (Primates: Hylobatidae) based on integrative taxonomy. American Journal of Primatology 79: e22631.
Ortiz, A., Torres Pino, E.C., Orellana González, E. 2016. First evidence of pre-Hispanic dentistry in South America. Insights from Cusco, Peru. HOMO Journal of Comparative Human Biology 67: 100-109.
Ortiz, A., Pilbrow, V., Villamil, C.I., Korsgaard, J., Bailey, S.E., Harrison, T. 2015. The taxonomic and phylogenetic affinities of Bunopithecus sericus, a fossil hylobatid from the Pleistocene of China. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131206.
Ortiz, A. 2013. Dental morphological variation among six pre-Hispanic South American populations with implications for the peopling of the New World. Dental Anthropology Journal 26: 20-32.
Ortiz, A., Skinner, M.M., Bailey, S.E., Hublin, J.J. 2012. Carabelli’s trait revisited: An examination of mesiolingual features at the enamel-dentine junction and enamel surface of Pan and Homo sapiens upper molars. Journal of Human Evolution 63: 586-596.