Paleoanthropology, dental anthropology, growth and development, hominoid systematics, Asian apes, modern human origins, peopling of the New World, virtual anthropology
Alejandra Ortiz
PhD in Biological Anthropology, New York University, 2016
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 sapiensupper molars. Journal of Human Evolution 63: 586-596.