Gary Schwartz

Leece AB, Martin JM, Baker S, Strait DS, Schwartz GT, and Herries AIR. (2023). New hominin dental remains from the ~2.04-1.95 Ma Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa. Annals of Human Biology 50: 407–427. https://doi.org10.1080/03014460.2023.2261849

Guatelli-Steinberg D, Schwartz GT, O’Hara MC, Gurian K, Rychel J, Dunham N, Cunneyworth PMK, Donaldson A, and McGraw WS (2023). Aspects of molar form and the dietary proclivities of African colobines. Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103384

Haile-Selassie Y, Saylor BZ, Alene M, Deino A, Gibert L, and Schwartz GT (2022). Comparative description and taxonomic affinity of 3.7-million-year-old hominin mandibles from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia). Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103265

Guatelli-Steinberg D, Schwartz GT, O’Hara MC, Gurian K, Rychel J, and McGraw WS (2022). Molar form, enamel growth, and durophagy in Cercocebus and Lophocebus. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24592

Rahantaharivao NJ, Godfrey LR, Schwartz GT, King S, Ranivoharimanana L (2021). The growth and development of Pachylemur, a large-bodied lemurid. K. Douglass, L. R. Godfrey & D. A. Burney, eds. Malagasy Nature 15:141-158. http://www.vahatra.mg/volume15.html

Glowacka H and Schwartz GT (2021). A Biomechanical Perspective on Molar Emergence and Primate Life History. Science Advances 7(41). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj0335

Martin JM, Leece AB, Neubauer S, Baker SE, Mongle CS, Boschian G, Schwartz GT, Smith AL, Ledogar JA, Strait DS, and Herries AIR (2020). Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:38-45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01319-6

Hogg R, Lacruz R, Bromage TG, Dean MC, Ramirez-Rozzi F, Girimurugan SB, McGrosky A, and Schwartz GT (2020). A comprehensive survey of Retzius periodicities in fossil hominins and other great apes. Journal of Human Evolution 149:102896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102896 

Ortiz A, Schander-Triplett K, Bailey SE, Skinner MM, Hublin J-J, and Schwartz GT. (2020). Enamel thickness variation in the deciduous dentition of humans and great apes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24106  

Kelley J, Schwartz GT, and Smith TM (2020). Age at first molar emergence in Pan troglodytes verus and variation in molar emergence among free-living chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution 145:102823. 

Herries AIR, Leece AB, Martin JM, Adams JW, Boschani G, Joannes-Boyau R, Edwards TR, Mallett T, Massey J, Murszewski A, Neubauer S, Pickering R, Strait DS, Armstrong BJ, Baker S, Caruana MV, Denham T, Hellstrom J, Moggi-Cecchi J, Mokobane S, Penzo-Kajewski P, Rovinsky DS, Schwartz GT, Stammers RC, Wilson C, Woodhead J, and Menter C (2020) Drimolen crania indicate contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa. Science 368(6486), eaaw7293. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7293   

Schwartz GT, McGrosky A, and Strait DS (2020) Fracture mechanics, enamel thickness, and the evolution of molar form in hominins. Biology Letters (The Royal Society, London) 16 (1), Jan. 20. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0671  

Stroik, LK and Schwartz, GT (2018). The role of dietary competition in the origination and early diversification of North American euprimates. Proc Biol Sci. Aug 1; 285(1884).  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1230. PDF

Ortiz, A, Bailey, SE, Schwartz, GT, Hublin, J-J, and Skinner, MM (2018). Evo-devo models of tooth development and the origin of hominoid molar diversity. Science Advances Apr 11;4(4):eaar2334. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2334. PDF

Glowacka, H, McFarlin, SC, Vogel, ER, Stoinski, TS, Ndagijimana, F, Tuyisingize, T, Mudakikwa, A, and Schwartz, GT. (2017). Toughness of the Virunga mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) diet across an altitudinal gradient.  American Journal of Primatology 79(8):e22661. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22661. PDF

Miller ER, Gunnell GF, Seiffert ER, Sallam H, and Schwartz GT. (2017). Patterns of dental emergence in early anthropoid primates from the Fayum Depression, Egypt. Historical Biology 30:157-165. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1294169. PDF

Evans, AR, Daly, ES, Catlett, KK, Paul, KS, King, SJ, Skinner, MM, Nesse, HP, Hublin, J-J, Townsend, GC, Schwartz, GT, and Jernvall, J. (2016). A simple rule governs the evolution and development of hominin tooth size. Nature 530:477-480. PDF

Glowacka, H, McFarlin, SC, Catlett, K, Mudakikwa, A, Bromage, TG, Cranfield, MR, Stoinski, TS, and Schwartz, GT. (2016). Age-related changes in molar topography and shearing crest length in a wild population of mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160:3-15. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22943. PDF

Hogg, R, Godfrey, LR, Schwartz, GT, Dirks, WD, Bromage, TG (2015). Lemur biorhythms and life history evolution. PLoS One. Aug 12;10(8):e0134210.  Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134210. PDF

Godfrey, LR, Schwartz, GT, Jungers, WL, Catlett, KK, Samonds, KE, King, SJ, Muldoon, KM, Irwin, MT, Burney, DA. Anthropoid analogues? Life history variation in Madagascar’s giant extinct lemurs. Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology (2013).

Gary T. Schwartz (2012). Growth, development, and life history throughout the evolution of Homo. Current Anthropology 53 (Suppl. 6): 395-408. PDF

Kelley, J. and Schwartz, G.T. (2012) Life-history inference in the early hominins Australopithecus and Paranthropus. International Journal of Primatology 33: 1332-1363. PDF

M. Teague O'Mara, Adam D. Gordon, Kierstin K. Catlett, Carl J. Terranova and Gary T. Schwartz (2012). Growth and the development of sexual size dimorphism in lorises and galagos. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147: 11-20. PDF

Catlett, K.C., Schwartz, G.T., Godfrey, L.R., and Jungers, W.L. (2010). "Life history space": A multivariate analysis of life history variation in extinct and extant Malagasy lemurs. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143: 391-404. PDF

Copes, L.E., Schwartz, G.T. (2010) The scale of it all: postcanine tooth size, the taxon-level effect, and the universality of Gould’s scaling law. Paleobiology 36:188-203. PDF

Kelley, J., and Schwartz, G.T. (2010). Dental development and life history in living African and Asian apes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:1035-1040. PDF

Ritzman, TB, Baker, BJ, and Schwartz, GT (2008). A Fine Line: A preliminary study comparing methods of estimating ages of linear enamel hypoplasia formation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135:348-361. PDF

Godfrey, LR, Jungers, WL, Schwartz, GT, and Irwin, MT (2008). Ghosts and orphans: Madagascar’s vanishing ecosystems. In: Fleagle, J.G. & Gilbert, C.C., editors. Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. pp. 361-395. Springer, New York.

Schwartz, GT and Dean MC (2008).  Charting the chronology of developing teeth. In: Irish, J.D. & Nelson, G.C., editors. Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology. (Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology), Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9, pp. 143-162.

Orr, CM, Delezene, LK, Scott, JE, Tocheri, M, and Schwartz, GT (2007). The comparative method and the inference of venom delivery systems in fossil mammals.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27:541-546. PDF

Schwartz GT, LR Godfrey, and P Mahoney. (2007). Inferring primate growth, development, and life history from dental microstructure: The case of the extinct giant Malagasy lemur, Megaladapis. In: Bailey, S. & Hublin, J.-J., editors. Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Anthropology. pp. 145-160. Springer Press.

Mahoney, P, Smith, TM, Schwartz, GT, Dean, MC, and Kelley, J (2007).  Molar crown formation in the late Miocene Asian hominoids, Sivapithecus parvada and Sivapithecus indicus. Journal of Human Evolution 53: 61-68.

Godfrey, L.R, Jungers, W.L, Burney, D.A, Vasey, N., Ramilisonina, Wheeler, W., Lemelin, P, Shapiro, L.J, Schwartz, GT, King, S.J, Ramarolahy, M.F, Raharivony, L.L, and Randria, G.F.N. (2006). New discoveries of skeletal elements of Hadropithecus stenognathus from Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar.  Journal of Human Evolution 51: 395-410.

Godfrey, LR, GT Schwartz, KE Samonds, WL Jungers, and KK Catlett. (2006).  The Secrets of Lemur Teeth.  Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 142-154.

Schwartz GT, Reid DJ, Dean MC, and Zihlman AL. (2006). A faithful record of stressful life events preserved in the dental developmental record of a juvenile gorilla. International Journal of Primatology 27: 1201-1222.

Gebo DL, Schwartz GT.  (2006).  Foot bones from Omo: Implications for hominid evolution.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129: 499-511.

Godfrey, LR, WL Jungers, GT Schwartz. (2006). Ecology and extinction of Madagascar’s subfossil lemurs. In: Gould L. & Sauther, M., editors. Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation. pp. 41-65.  New York: Springer.

Schwartz GT, Mahoney P, Godfrey LR, Cuozzo FP, Jungers WL and Randria, G.F.N.  (2005).  Dental development in Megaladapis edwardsi (Primates, Lemuriformes): Implications for understanding life history variation in subfossil lemurs. Journal of Human Evolution 49: 702-721. 

Schwartz GT and Dean MC. (2005).  Sexual dimorphism in modern human permanent teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128: 312-317. 

Godfrey, LR, GM Semprebon, GT Schwartz, DA Burney, WL Jungers, EK Flanagan, FP Cuozzo, and SJ King. (2005).  New insights into old lemurs: The trophic adaptations of the Archaeolemuridae. International Journal of Primatology 26:825-854. 

Schwartz GT, Miller ER, Gunnell GF (2005). Developmental processes, life history and canine dimorphism in primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 48:97-103. 

Schwartz GT and Godfrey LR (2003).  The extinct sloth lemurs of Madagascar: Big bodies, fast teeth. Evolutionary Anthropology 12, 259. 

Schwartz GT, Liu W, and Zheng L (2003). Preliminary investigation of dental microstructure in the Yuanmou hominoid (Lufengpithecus hudienensis) Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Human Evolution 44,189-202. 

Schwartz GT, Jungers WL, Samonds KE, Godfrey LR and Simons EL (2002).  Dental microstructure and life history in subfossil Malagasy lemurs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99, 6124-6129. 

Dean MC, Leakey MG, Reid D, Schrenk F, Schwartz GT, Stringer C & Walker AC. (2001) Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins. Nature 414, 628-631. 

Schwartz GT & Dean MC (2001). The ontogeny of canine dimorphism in extant hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115, 269-283. 

Schwartz GT, Reid DJ and Dean MC (2001). Developmental aspects of sexual dimorphism in hominoid canines. International Journal of Primatology 22, 837-860. 

Halberg F, Cornélissen G, Appenzeller O, Wallace J, Acosta MA, Schwartz GT and Dean MC. (2001). Chronomics: different multiseptans in enamel of ancient and contemporaneous teeth. Proc, 2nd Int. Symp., Workshop on Chronoastrobiology and Chronotherapy, Otemachi, Chiyodaku, Tokyo.

Schwartz, GT and Dean, MC (2000). Interpreting the hominid dentition: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic aspects.  In: O’Higgins P. & Cohen, M., editors. Development, Growth and Evolution: Implications for the Study of Hominid Skeleton. London: Academic Press. pp. 207-233.

Schwartz GT, Reid DJ, Dean MC and Chandrasekera MS (2000). Aspects of tooth crown development in common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) with a note on the possible role of sexual dimorphism in canine growth.  Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Dental Morphology. pp. 323-337.

Schwartz GT (2000a). Taxonomic and functional aspects of the patterning of enamel thickness distribution in extant large-bodied hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111, 221-244. 

Schwartz GT (2000b). Enamel thickness and the helicoidal wear plane in modern human mandibular molars. Archives of Oral Biology 45, 401-409. 

Reid DJ, Schwartz GT, Chandrasekera MS, and Dean MC (1998). A histological reconstruction of dental development in the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes. Journal of Human Evolution 35, 427-448. 

Schwartz GT, Thackeray JF, Reid C and van Reenan JF (1998). Enamel thickness and the topography of the enamel-dentine junction in South African Plio-Pleistocene hominids with special reference to the Carabelli trait.  Journal of Human Evolution 35, 523-542. 

Schwartz GT (1997). Re-evaluation of the Plio-Pleistocene Hyraxes (Mammalia: Procaviidae) from South Africa.  Neues Jarhbuch für Geologie und Paläeontologie, Abhandlungen. 206, 365-383.

Schwartz GT and Kuykendall KL (1996). Enamel Structure and Development.  Evolutionary Anthropology 5, 150-151.

Schwartz GT and Conroy GC (1996). Cross-sectional geometric properties of the Otavipithecus mandible. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 99, 613-623. 

Schwartz GT, Rasmussen DT, and Smith RJ (1995). Body-size diversity & community structure of fossil hyracoids. Journal of Mammalogy 76, 1088-1099.