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Liza Shapiro: Full CV

Recent publications:

2024 Schapker N., Janisch J., Myers L.C., Phelps T., Shapiro L.J., Young J.W. From such great heights: the effects of substrate height and the perception of risk on lemur locomotor mechanics. American Journal of Biological Anthropology e24917. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24917

2024 Janisch, J., McNamara, A., Myers L.C., Schapker , N., Dunham N.T., Phelps T., Mundry R., Hieronymus T., Shapiro L.J., and Young J.W. Ecological and phylogenetic influences on limb joint kinematics in wild primates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae004

2024 Janisch J., Myers L., Schapker, N,  Kirven, J., Shapiro L.J., and Young J.W. Pump and sway: wild primates use compliant supports as a tool to augment leaping in the canopy. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. e24914. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24914

2021 Young J.W, Chadwell, B.A.;  Dunham, N.T.,  McNamara, A., Phelps, T., Hieronymus,T., and Shapiro, L.J. The stabilizing function of the tail during arboreal quadrupedalism. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61: 491–505. doi: 10.1093/icb/icab096

 2020 Williams, S.A., Prang, T.C., Meyer, M.R., Russo, G.A., and,Shapiro L.J. Reevaluating bipedality in Danuvius. Nature.586: E1-E3. 

2020  Dunham, N.T.,  McNamara, A., Shapiro, L.J., Phelps, T., and Young J.W. Asymmetrical gait kinematics of free-ranging callitrichines in response to changes in substrate diameter and orientation. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi:10.1242/jeb.217562

2019  McNamara, A., Dunham, N.T.,  Shapiro, L.J., and Young J.W. The effects of natural substrate discontinuities on the quadrupedal gait kinematics of free-ranging Saimiri sciureus. American Journal of Primatology. 81.e23055. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23055

 2019 Dunham, N.T., McNamara, A., Shapiro, L.J., Hieronymus,, T. and Young J.W. Effects of substrate and phylogeny on quadrupedal gait in free-ranging platyrrhines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 170 (4) 565-578. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23942

2019 Shapiro, L.J. and Russo, G.A. Vertebral morphology in hominoids II- The lumbar spine. In: Been E, Gómez-Olivencia A, and Kramer PA.(Eds). Spinal Evolution: Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in Hominoid Evolution. New York: Springer. pp. 51-72.

2019 Shapiro, L.J. and Kemp, A.D. Functional and developmental influences on intraspecific variation in catarrhine vertebrae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168:131-144. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23730

 2019 Dunham, N.T., McNamara, A., Shapiro, L.J., Phelps, T., Wolfe A. and Young J.W.  Locomotor kinematics of tree squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) in free-ranging and laboratory environments: Implications for primate locomotion and evolution. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 331:103-119.

2018 Dunham, N.T., McNamara, A., Shapiro, L.J., Hieronymus,, T. and Young J.W. A user’s guide for the quantitative analysis of substrate characteristics and locomotor kinematics in free ranging primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23686

2018 Young, J.W. and Shapiro, L.J. Developments in development: what have we learned from primate locomotor ontogeny?  American Journal of Physical Anthropology.165:37-71.