Dissertation
Boyer, D. M. 2009. New cranial and postcranial remains of late Paleocene Plesiadapidae (“Plesiadapiformes,” Mammalia) from North America and Europe: description and evolutionary implications. Stony Brook University. 569p. pdf
Peer Reviewed Publications
Boyer, D. M. and P. D. Gingerich. Skeleton of late Paleocene Plesiadapis cookei (Mammalia, Euarchonta, Plesiadapiformes): life history, locomotion, and phylogenetic relationships. in press. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology.
2019
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, N. T. Dunham, A. McNamara, L. Shapiro, T. L. Hieronymus, J. W. Young. My branch is your branch: Talar morphology correlates with relative substrate size in platyrrhines at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. Journal of Human Evolution. 133:23-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.012
Boyer, D. M. and A. R. Harrington. 2019. New estimates of blood flow rates in the vertebral artery of euarchontans and their implications for encephalic blood flow scaling: A response to Seymour and Snelling (2018). Journal of Human Evolution. 128:93-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.10.002
Gao, T., S. Z. Kovalsky, D. M. Boyer, I. Daubechies. 2019. Gaussian Process Landmarking for Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 1(1):237-267. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1203481
Harrington, A. R., C. W. Kuzawa, and D. M. Boyer. 2019. Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 169:161-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23809
Shan, S., S. Z. Kovalsky, J. M. Winchester, D. M. Boyer, I. Daubechies, I. 2019. ariaDNE: A Robustly Implemented Algorithm for Dirichlet Energy of the Normal. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(4):541-552. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13148
2018
Boyer, D. M. and A. R. Harrington*. 2018. Scaling of bony canals for encephalic vessels in euarchontans: implications for the role of the vertebral artery and brain metabolism. Journal of Human Evolution.114:85-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.003
Boyer, D. M., S. Maiolino, P. Holroyd, P. E. Morse, J. I. Bloch. 2018. Oldest evidence for grooming claws in Euprimates. Journal of Human Evolution. 122:1-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.010
Gunnell, G. F., D. M. Boyer, A. R. Friscia, S. Heritage, F. K. Manthi, E. R. Miller, H. M. Sallam, N. B. Simmons, N. J. Stevens, E. R. Seiffert. 2018. Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya reveal an African origin for Madagascar’s aye-aye. Nature Communications. 9, 3193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05648-w
Morse, P.E., S.G.B. Chester, T. Smith, D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch. 2018. New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America. Journal of Human Evolution.128:103-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.08.005
2017
Boyer, D. M., S. Toussaint, M. Godinot. 2017. Postcrania of the most primitive euprimate and implications for primate origins. Journal of Human Evolution. 111, 202-215.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.005
Davies, T.G., I. A. Rahman, S. Lautenschlager, J. A. Cunningham, P. M. Barrett, K. T. Bates, R. B. J. Benson, D. M. Boyer, J. Braga, J. A. Bright, L. P.A.M. Claessens, P. G. Cox, X.-P. Dong, A. R. Evans, P. L. Falkingham, R. J. Garwood, A. Goswami, J. R. Hutchinson, N. S. Jeffery, Z. Johanson, R. Lebrun, C. Martínez-Pérez, J. Marugán-Lobón, M. Orliac, M. Rücklin, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, S. Y. Smith, J. M. Starck, C. Stringer, A. P. Summers, M. D. Sutton, S. A. Walsh, V. Weisbecker, L. M. Witmer, S. Wroe, Z. Yin, E. J. Rayfield and P. C. J. Donoghue. In press. Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society – B. 204(1852).
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0194
Gao, T., G. S. Yapuncich, I. Daubechies, S. Mukherjee, D. M. Boyer. 2017. Development and assessment of fully automated and globally transitive geometric morphometric methods, with application to a biological comparative dataset with high interspecific variation. Anatomical Record. 301(4):636-658.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23700
Gunnell, G. F., D. M. Boyer. 2017. Natural history collections in the digital age. Research Features 111:69-73. https://researchfeatures.com/2017/06/30/natural-history-collections/
Seiffert, E. R., D. M. Boyer, J. G. Fleagle, G. F. Gunnell, C. Heesy, J. Perry, H. Sallam. 2017. New adapiform fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt. Historical Biology, 1-23
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1306522
Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, S. B. G. Chester, S. Lopez-Torres. 2017. The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms. Evolutionary Anthropology. 26(2):74-94.
https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21526
Wallace, I. J., J. M. Winchester, A. Su, D. M. Boyer, N. Konow. 2017. Physical activity alters limb bone structure but not entheseal morphology. Journal of Human Evolution. 104:14-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.001
Vitek, N. S., C. L. Manz, T. Gao, J. I. Bloch, S. Strait, D. M. Boyer. 2017. Semi-supervised determination of pseudocryptic morphotypes using observer-free characterizations of anatomical alignment and shape. Ecology and Evolution. 7:5041-5055. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3058
Yapuncich, G. S., E. R. Seiffert, D. M. Boyer. 2017. Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 163:367-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23213
2016
Boyer, D. M., G. F. Gunnell, S. Kaufman, T. McGeary. 2016. MorphoSource - Archiving and Sharing Digital Specimen Data. The Paleontological Society Papers 22:157-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/scs.2017.13
Boyer, D.M., E. C. Kirk, M. T. Silcox, G. F. Gunnell, C. C. Gilbert, G.S. Yapuncich, K. L. Allen, E. Welch, J. I. Bloch, L. Gonzales, R. F. Kay, E. R. Seiffert. (2016) Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates. Journal of Human Evolution 97:123-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.002
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, S. G. B. Chester, J. I. Bloch, M. Godinot. 2016. Hands of Paleogene Primates, in Primate Hands Edited by T. Kivell, P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt.
Copes, L. E., L. M. Lucas, J. D. Thostenson, H. E. Hoekstra, D. M. Boyer.. 2016. A collection of non-human primate computed tomography scans housed in MorphoSource, a repository for 3D data. Scientific Data 3: 160001. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.1
Fulwood, E. L., D. M. Boyer, R. F. Kay. 2016. Stem members of Platyrrhini are distinct from Catarrhines in at least one derived cranial feature. Journal of Human Evolution. 100:16-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.08.001
Harrington, A. R., M. T. Silcox, G. S. Yapuncich, D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch 2016. First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates. Journal of Human Evolution 99:52-78.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.005
Marigó, J., I. Roig, E.R. Seiffert, S. Moyà-Solà, and D. M. Boyer. Astragalar and calcaneal morphology of the middle Eocene primate Anchomomys frontanyensis (Anchomomyini): implications for early primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 91: 122-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.011
Pampush, J. D., J. M. Winchester, P. E. Morse, A. Q. Vining, D. M. Boyer, and R. F. Kay 2016. Introducing molaR: a New R Package for Quantitative Topographic Analysis of Teeth (and Other Topographic Surfaces). Journal of Mammalian Evolution: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-016-9326-0
Pampush J. D., J. P. Spradley, P. E. Morse,A. R. Harrington, K. L. Allen, D. M. Boyer, R. F. Kay. 2016. Wear and its effects on dental topography measures in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 161(4):705-721. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23077
Prufrock, K., D. M. Boyer, M. T. Silcox. 2016. The First Major Primate Extinction: testing competitive exclusion in the fossil record of North American stem primates using homology free metrics of tooth shape. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 159(4):683-697. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22927
Prufrock, K., S. López-Torres, M. T. Silcox, and D. M. Boyer. 2016. Surfaces and spaces: trouble-shooting the study of dietary niche space overlap between north american stem primates and rodents. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 4(2): 024005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2051-672X/4/2/024005
St. Clair, E. M., D. M. Boyer 2016. Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2016:n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23021
2015
Boyer, D. M., J. Puente, J. T. Gladman, C. Glynn, S. Mukherjee, G. S. Yapuncich, I. Daubechies. 2015. A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes. Anatomical Record. 298:249-276 pdf / supplementary Fig. 1, supplementary Fig. 2, supplementary Fig. 3.
Boyer, D. M., J. M. Winchester, R. F. Kay. 2015. The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 156:166-178
Boyer, D. M., J. M. Winchester, C. Glynn, and J. Puente. (2015), Detailed Anatomical Orientations for Certain Types of Morphometric Measurements Can Be Determined Automatically With Geometric Algorithms. Anat Rec, 298: 1816–1823. doi: 10.1002/ar.23202
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, J. Butler, R. H. Dunn, E. R. Sieffert. 2015. Patterns of quantitative variation in the astragalar medial tibial facet and implications for primate origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 151(3):420-447 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22702
Chester, S. G. B., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, W. A. Clemens. 2015. Oldest known euarchontan postcrania and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates. PNAS. 112(5):1487-1492
Goodenberger, K. E., D. M. Boyer, C. M. Orr, R. L. Jacobs, J. C. Femiani, B.A. Patel. 2015. Functional morphology of the hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability and substrate preference in extinct primates. American Journal of Physical Anthroplogy. 156(3):327-348. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22652.
Patel, B.A., I. Wallace, D. M. Boyer, M. Granatosky, S. Larson, J. T. Stern Jr. 2015. Distinct functional roles of primate grasping hands and feet during arboreal quadrupedal locomotion. Journal of Human Evolution 88: 79-84
Seiffert, E. R., D. M. Boyer, L. Costeur. 2015. Tarsal morphology of Caenopithecus, a large adapiform primate from the middle Eocene of Switzerland. PeerJ 3:e1036; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1036
Yapuncich, G. S., J. T. Gladman, D. M. Boyer. 2015. Estimating euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.157(3):472-506
2014
Yapuncich, G. S., and D. M. Boyer. 2014. Interspecific scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within Euarchonta. Journal of Anatomy. 224(2): 150-172. pdf
DOI: 10.1111/joa.1213
Fabre, A.-C., R. Cornette, A. Perrard, D. M. Boyer, G. V. R. Prasad, J. J. Hooker, A. Goswami. 2014. A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology of Deccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):146-156. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2013.789437 pdf
Winchester, J., D.M. Boyer, E. St. Clair, S. Cooke, J. Ledogar, A. Gosselin-Ildari. 2014. Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.153(1):29-44. pdf, Tables s1-s3
2013
Baczynski, A.A., F. A. McInerney, S. L. Wing, M. J. Kraus, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, R. Secord, P. E. Morse, H. C. Fricke. 2013. Chemostratigraphic implications of spatial variation in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon isotope excursion, SE Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 14(10):4133-4152. pdf
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, S. G. B. Chester, J. I. Bloch, M. Godinot. In press. Hands of early Primates. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 57:33-78. pdf
Boyer, D. M., E. R. Seiffert, J. T. Gladman, J. I. Bloch. Evolution and allometry of calcaneal elongation in living and extinct primates. PLOS ONE. 8(7): e67792. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067792. open access
Boyer, D. M., E.R. Seiffert. 2013. Patterns of astragalar fibular facet orientation and their evolutionary implications in extant and fossil primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.151:420-447. pdf
Gladman, J.T., D.M. Boyer, E.R. Seiffert, E.L. Simons. Morphology and phenetic affinities of a calcaneus attributable to the primitive late Eocene anthropoid Proteopithecus sylviae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.151:372-397. pdf, Fig. s1, Table s1, Table s2, Table s3
Ledogar, J. A., J.M. Winchester, E.M. St. Clair, D.M. Boyer. 2013. Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 150: 107–121. pdf, erratum
2012
Boyer, D. M., L. Costeur, Y. Lipman. 2012. Earliest Record of Platychoerops (Primates, Plesiadapidae), A New Species From Mouras Quarry, Mont de Berru, France. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 149:329-346. pdf, 3D pdf of Platychoerops antiquus type
Boyer, D. M., C. S. Scott, R. C. Fox. 2012. New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 147: 511-550. pdf, Figs. s1-s7, supplement 1, supplement 2
Coleman, M. N., D. M. Boyer. 2012. Inner ear evolution in Primates through the Cenozoic: Implications for the evolution of hearing. The Anatomical Record. 295: 615-631.
Godfrey, L., J. Winchester, S. J. King, D. M. Boyer, J. Jernvall. 2012. Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 148: 215-227. pdf, Table s1
King, S. J., D. M. Boyer, S. Tecot, S. G. Strait, S. Zohdy, M. B. Blanco, P. C. Wright, J. Jernvall. 2012. Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 148: 228-237. pdf
Maiolino, S., D. M. Boyer, J.I. Bloch, C. S. Gilbert, J. Groenke. 2012. Evidence for a Grooming Claw in a North American Adapiform Primate: Implications for Anthropoid Origins. PLoS ONE 7:e29136. open access
Patel, B. A., E. R. Seiffert, D. M. Boyer, R. L. Jacobs, E. M. St. Clair, E. L. Simons. 2012. New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe. Journal of Human Evolution 63: 99-120. pdf
Secord, R., J. I. Bloch, S.G.B. Chester, D. M. Boyer, A. R. Wood, M. J. Kraus, F. A. McInerney, and J. Krigbaum. 2012. Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science. 335(6071): 959-962. pdf
2011
Boyer, D. M., Y. Lipman, E. St. Clair, J. Puente, B. A. Patel, T. A. Funkhouser, J. Jernvall, I. Daubechies. 2011. New algorithms to automatically quantify the geometric similarity of anatomical surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 108 (45): 18221-18226. pdf, supplement , commentary
Blatch, S. J., D. M. Boyer, S. J. King, J. Jernvall, P. C. Wright. 2011. Changes in orientation of attritional wear facets with implications for jaw motion in a mixed longitudinal sample of Propithecus edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146:116-133. pdf
Bunn, J. M., D. M. Boyer , J. Jernvall, Y. Lipman, and I. Daubechies. 2011. Dirichlet normal surface energy of tooth crowns, a new technique of molar shape quantification for dietary inference, compared with previous methods in isolation and in combination. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145: 247-261. pdf
Coleman, M. C., D. M. Boyer. 2011. A new line of evidence for investigating cerebral circulation patterns in fossil mammals. Journal of Human Evolution. 60:106-116. pdf
Goswami, A., G. V. R. Prasad, P. Upchurch, D. M. Boyer, E. Seiffert, O. Verma, E. Gheerbrant, J. J. Flynn. 2011. A radiation of arboreal basal eutherian mammals beginning in the Late Cretaceous of India Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108(39):16333-16338. pdf
Maiolino, S., D. M. Boyer, A. Rosenberger. 2011. Morphological correlates of the grooming claw in distal phalanges of platyrrhines and other primates: a preliminary study. Anatomical Record. 294:1975-1990 pdf
Rose, K.D., S. G. B. Chester, R. H. Dunn, D. M. Boyer, A. E. Chew, J. I. Bloch. New Fossils of the Oldest North American Euprimate Teilhardina brandti (Omomyidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146:281-305. pdf
Silcox, M. T., C. K. Dalmyn, A. Hrenchuk, J. I. Bloch. D. M. Boyer, P. Houde. 2011. Endocranial morphology of Labidolemur kayi (Apatemyidae, Apatotheria) and its relevance to the study of brain evolution in Euarchontoglires. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31(6):1314-1325. pdf
2010
Boyer, D. M., G. V. R. Prasad, D. W. Krause, M. Godinot, A. Goswami, O. Verma and J. Flynn. 2010. New postcrania of Deccanolestes from the Late Cretaceous of India and their bearing on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of euarchontan mammals. Naturwissenschaften 97:365-377. pdf supplemental data
Boyer, D. M., E. R. Seiffert, and E. L. Simons. 2010. Astragalar morphology of Afradapis a large adapiform primate from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143:383-402. pdf *Go to my "Evolutionary Morphology of the Primate Astragalo-Calcaneal Complex" page to download the 3d files from this paper.
Boyer, D. M., A. Evans, and J. Jernvall. 2010. Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, Primates). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 142:194-210. pdf
Chester, S. G. B., J. I. Bloch, R. Secord, and D. M. Boyer. 2010. Dwarfing of the carnivorous mammal Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17:227-243. pdf
Kingston, A. K., D. M. Boyer, B. A. Patel, S. G. Larson, J. T. Stern Jr. 2010. Hallucal grasping in Nycticebus coucang: further implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process. Journal of Human Evolution 58:33-42. pdf
Seiffert, E. R., E. L. Simons, D. M. Boyer, J. M. Perry, T. Ryan, and H. M. Sallam. 2010. A primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:9712-9717. pdf
Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer and P. Houde. 2010. Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria) and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00614.x pdf
St. Clair, E., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, D. W. Krause. 2010. First records of a triisodontine mammal, Goniacodon levisanus, in the Late Paleocene of the northern great plains, North America. Short Communication. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.30:604-608. pdf
2009
Jacobs, R. L., D. M. Boyer, B. A. Patel. 2009. Comparative functional morphology of the primate peroneal process. Journal of Human Evolution 57:721-731. pdf
Seiffert, E. R., J. M. G. Perry, E. L. Simons and D. M. Boyer. 2009. Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates. Nature 461:1118-1121. pdf
Silcox, M., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, M. Godinot, T. M. Ryan, F. Spoor, A. Walker. 2009. The semicircular canal system in early primates, Journal of Human Evolution. 56:315-327. pdf
2008
Boyer, D. M. 2008. Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals. Journal of Human Evolution. 55:1118-1137. pdf, supplemental data
Boyer, D. M., and J. I. Bloch. 2008. “Evaluating the mitten-gliding hypothesis for Paromomyidae and Micromomyidae (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") using comparative functional morphology of new Paleogene skeletons,” in Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. Edited by E. J. Sargis and M. Dagosto, pp.233-284. Springer, Dordrecht. Netherlands. pdf
Gunnell, G. F., T. M. Bown, J. I. Bloch, and D. M. Boyer. 2008. Chapter 5. "Proteutheria". In: Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 2, Small Mammals, Xenarthrans, and Marine Mammals. Edited by C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, and M. D. Uhen, pp.63-81. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Kirk, E. C., P. Lemelin, M. W. Hamrick, D. M. Boyer and J. I. Bloch. 2008. Intrinsic hand proportions of euarchontans and other mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of plesiadapiforms. Journal of Human Evolution 55:278-299. pdf
2007
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2007. "New skeletons of Paleocene-Eocene Plesiadapiformes: a diversity of arboreal positional behaviors in early primates," in Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, pp.535-581. Edited by M. Dagosto and M. J. Ravosa. New York: Plenum Press.
Bloch J. I., M. T. Silcox, D. M. Boyer, and E. J. Sargis. 2007. New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 1159-1164. pdf
Boyer, D. M., and J. A. Georgi. 2007. Cranial morphology of a pantolestid eutherian mammal from the Eocene Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA: implications for relationships and habitat. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14: 239-280. pdf
Boyer, D. M., B. A. Patel, S. G. Larson, and J. T. Stern Jr . 2007. Telemetered electromyography of peroneus longus in Varecia variegata and Eulemur rubriventer: implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process. Journal of Human Evolution 53: 119-134. pdf
Sargis, E. J., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, and M. T. Silcox. 2007. Evolution of pedal grasping in Primates. Journal of Human Evolution 53: 103-107. pdf
Silcox, M. T., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, and E. J. Sargis. 2007. Revisiting the adaptive origins of primates (again). Journal of Human Evolution 53: 321-324. pdf
Silcox, M. T., E. J. Sargis, J. I. Bloch, and D. M. Boyer. 2007. Primate origins and supraordinal relationships: morphological evidence. In W. Henke, H. Rothe, and I. Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Vol. 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins, pp.831-859. Springer: Heidelberg, Germany. pdf
2005
Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, and E. J. Sargis. 2005. "Euarchonta (Dermoptera, Scandentia, Primates)," in Rise of Placental Mammals. Edited by K. D. Rose and J. D. Archibald, pp. 127-144. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pdf
Wing, S. L., G. J. Harrington, F. A. Smith, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, and K. H. Freeman. 2005. Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science 310:993-996. pdf
2003
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2003. Response to comment on "Grasping Primate Origins". Science 300: 741c. pdf
2002
Bloch, J. I., D. M. Boyer, P. D. Gingerich, and G. F. Gunnell. 2002. New primitive paromomyid from the Clarkforkian of Wyoming and dental eruption in Plesiadapiformes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 366-379. pdf
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2002. Grasping primate origins. Science 298: 1606-1610. pdf
2001
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2001. "Taphonomy of small mammals in freshwater limestones from the Paleocene of the Clarks Fork Basin," in Paleocene-Eocene Stratigraphy and Biotic Change in the Bighorn and Clarks Fork Basins, Wyoming. Edited by P. D. Gingerich, pp. 185-198: Museum of Paleontology Papers on Paleontology No. 33.
2019
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, N. T. Dunham, A. McNamara, L. Shapiro, T. L. Hieronymus, J. W. Young. My branch is your branch: Talar morphology correlates with relative substrate size in platyrrhines at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. Journal of Human Evolution. 133:23-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.012
Boyer, D. M. and A. R. Harrington. 2019. New estimates of blood flow rates in the vertebral artery of euarchontans and their implications for encephalic blood flow scaling: A response to Seymour and Snelling (2018). Journal of Human Evolution. 128:93-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.10.002
Gao, T., S. Z. Kovalsky, D. M. Boyer, I. Daubechies. 2019. Gaussian Process Landmarking for Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 1(1):237-267. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1203481
Harrington, A. R., C. W. Kuzawa, and D. M. Boyer. 2019. Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 169:161-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23809
Shan, S., S. Z. Kovalsky, J. M. Winchester, D. M. Boyer, I. Daubechies, I. 2019. ariaDNE: A Robustly Implemented Algorithm for Dirichlet Energy of the Normal. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(4):541-552. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13148
2018
Boyer, D. M. and A. R. Harrington*. 2018. Scaling of bony canals for encephalic vessels in euarchontans: implications for the role of the vertebral artery and brain metabolism. Journal of Human Evolution.114:85-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.003
Boyer, D. M., S. Maiolino, P. Holroyd, P. E. Morse, J. I. Bloch. 2018. Oldest evidence for grooming claws in Euprimates. Journal of Human Evolution. 122:1-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.010
Gunnell, G. F., D. M. Boyer, A. R. Friscia, S. Heritage, F. K. Manthi, E. R. Miller, H. M. Sallam, N. B. Simmons, N. J. Stevens, E. R. Seiffert. 2018. Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya reveal an African origin for Madagascar’s aye-aye. Nature Communications. 9, 3193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05648-w
Morse, P.E., S.G.B. Chester, T. Smith, D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch. 2018. New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America. Journal of Human Evolution.128:103-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.08.005
2017
Boyer, D. M., S. Toussaint, M. Godinot. 2017. Postcrania of the most primitive euprimate and implications for primate origins. Journal of Human Evolution. 111, 202-215.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.005
Davies, T.G., I. A. Rahman, S. Lautenschlager, J. A. Cunningham, P. M. Barrett, K. T. Bates, R. B. J. Benson, D. M. Boyer, J. Braga, J. A. Bright, L. P.A.M. Claessens, P. G. Cox, X.-P. Dong, A. R. Evans, P. L. Falkingham, R. J. Garwood, A. Goswami, J. R. Hutchinson, N. S. Jeffery, Z. Johanson, R. Lebrun, C. Martínez-Pérez, J. Marugán-Lobón, M. Orliac, M. Rücklin, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, S. Y. Smith, J. M. Starck, C. Stringer, A. P. Summers, M. D. Sutton, S. A. Walsh, V. Weisbecker, L. M. Witmer, S. Wroe, Z. Yin, E. J. Rayfield and P. C. J. Donoghue. In press. Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society – B. 204(1852).
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0194
Gao, T., G. S. Yapuncich, I. Daubechies, S. Mukherjee, D. M. Boyer. 2017. Development and assessment of fully automated and globally transitive geometric morphometric methods, with application to a biological comparative dataset with high interspecific variation. Anatomical Record. 301(4):636-658.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23700
Gunnell, G. F., D. M. Boyer. 2017. Natural history collections in the digital age. Research Features 111:69-73. https://researchfeatures.com/2017/06/30/natural-history-collections/
Seiffert, E. R., D. M. Boyer, J. G. Fleagle, G. F. Gunnell, C. Heesy, J. Perry, H. Sallam. 2017. New adapiform fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt. Historical Biology, 1-23
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1306522
Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, S. B. G. Chester, S. Lopez-Torres. 2017. The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms. Evolutionary Anthropology. 26(2):74-94.
https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21526
Wallace, I. J., J. M. Winchester, A. Su, D. M. Boyer, N. Konow. 2017. Physical activity alters limb bone structure but not entheseal morphology. Journal of Human Evolution. 104:14-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.001
Vitek, N. S., C. L. Manz, T. Gao, J. I. Bloch, S. Strait, D. M. Boyer. 2017. Semi-supervised determination of pseudocryptic morphotypes using observer-free characterizations of anatomical alignment and shape. Ecology and Evolution. 7:5041-5055. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3058
Yapuncich, G. S., E. R. Seiffert, D. M. Boyer. 2017. Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 163:367-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23213
2016
Boyer, D. M., G. F. Gunnell, S. Kaufman, T. McGeary. 2016. MorphoSource - Archiving and Sharing Digital Specimen Data. The Paleontological Society Papers 22:157-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/scs.2017.13
Boyer, D.M., E. C. Kirk, M. T. Silcox, G. F. Gunnell, C. C. Gilbert, G.S. Yapuncich, K. L. Allen, E. Welch, J. I. Bloch, L. Gonzales, R. F. Kay, E. R. Seiffert. (2016) Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates. Journal of Human Evolution 97:123-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.002
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, S. G. B. Chester, J. I. Bloch, M. Godinot. 2016. Hands of Paleogene Primates, in Primate Hands Edited by T. Kivell, P. Lemelin, and D. Schmitt.
Copes, L. E., L. M. Lucas, J. D. Thostenson, H. E. Hoekstra, D. M. Boyer.. 2016. A collection of non-human primate computed tomography scans housed in MorphoSource, a repository for 3D data. Scientific Data 3: 160001. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.1
Fulwood, E. L., D. M. Boyer, R. F. Kay. 2016. Stem members of Platyrrhini are distinct from Catarrhines in at least one derived cranial feature. Journal of Human Evolution. 100:16-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.08.001
Harrington, A. R., M. T. Silcox, G. S. Yapuncich, D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch 2016. First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates. Journal of Human Evolution 99:52-78.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.005
Marigó, J., I. Roig, E.R. Seiffert, S. Moyà-Solà, and D. M. Boyer. Astragalar and calcaneal morphology of the middle Eocene primate Anchomomys frontanyensis (Anchomomyini): implications for early primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 91: 122-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.011
Pampush, J. D., J. M. Winchester, P. E. Morse, A. Q. Vining, D. M. Boyer, and R. F. Kay 2016. Introducing molaR: a New R Package for Quantitative Topographic Analysis of Teeth (and Other Topographic Surfaces). Journal of Mammalian Evolution: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-016-9326-0
Pampush J. D., J. P. Spradley, P. E. Morse,A. R. Harrington, K. L. Allen, D. M. Boyer, R. F. Kay. 2016. Wear and its effects on dental topography measures in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 161(4):705-721. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23077
Prufrock, K., D. M. Boyer, M. T. Silcox. 2016. The First Major Primate Extinction: testing competitive exclusion in the fossil record of North American stem primates using homology free metrics of tooth shape. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 159(4):683-697. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22927
Prufrock, K., S. López-Torres, M. T. Silcox, and D. M. Boyer. 2016. Surfaces and spaces: trouble-shooting the study of dietary niche space overlap between north american stem primates and rodents. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 4(2): 024005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2051-672X/4/2/024005
St. Clair, E. M., D. M. Boyer 2016. Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2016:n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23021
2015
Boyer, D. M., J. Puente, J. T. Gladman, C. Glynn, S. Mukherjee, G. S. Yapuncich, I. Daubechies. 2015. A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes. Anatomical Record. 298:249-276 pdf / supplementary Fig. 1, supplementary Fig. 2, supplementary Fig. 3.
Boyer, D. M., J. M. Winchester, R. F. Kay. 2015. The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 156:166-178
Boyer, D. M., J. M. Winchester, C. Glynn, and J. Puente. (2015), Detailed Anatomical Orientations for Certain Types of Morphometric Measurements Can Be Determined Automatically With Geometric Algorithms. Anat Rec, 298: 1816–1823. doi: 10.1002/ar.23202
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, J. Butler, R. H. Dunn, E. R. Sieffert. 2015. Patterns of quantitative variation in the astragalar medial tibial facet and implications for primate origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 151(3):420-447 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22702
Chester, S. G. B., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, W. A. Clemens. 2015. Oldest known euarchontan postcrania and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates. PNAS. 112(5):1487-1492
Goodenberger, K. E., D. M. Boyer, C. M. Orr, R. L. Jacobs, J. C. Femiani, B.A. Patel. 2015. Functional morphology of the hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability and substrate preference in extinct primates. American Journal of Physical Anthroplogy. 156(3):327-348. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22652.
Patel, B.A., I. Wallace, D. M. Boyer, M. Granatosky, S. Larson, J. T. Stern Jr. 2015. Distinct functional roles of primate grasping hands and feet during arboreal quadrupedal locomotion. Journal of Human Evolution 88: 79-84
Seiffert, E. R., D. M. Boyer, L. Costeur. 2015. Tarsal morphology of Caenopithecus, a large adapiform primate from the middle Eocene of Switzerland. PeerJ 3:e1036; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1036
Yapuncich, G. S., J. T. Gladman, D. M. Boyer. 2015. Estimating euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.157(3):472-506
2014
Yapuncich, G. S., and D. M. Boyer. 2014. Interspecific scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within Euarchonta. Journal of Anatomy. 224(2): 150-172. pdf
DOI: 10.1111/joa.1213
Fabre, A.-C., R. Cornette, A. Perrard, D. M. Boyer, G. V. R. Prasad, J. J. Hooker, A. Goswami. 2014. A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology of Deccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):146-156. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2013.789437 pdf
Winchester, J., D.M. Boyer, E. St. Clair, S. Cooke, J. Ledogar, A. Gosselin-Ildari. 2014. Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.153(1):29-44. pdf, Tables s1-s3
2013
Baczynski, A.A., F. A. McInerney, S. L. Wing, M. J. Kraus, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, R. Secord, P. E. Morse, H. C. Fricke. 2013. Chemostratigraphic implications of spatial variation in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon isotope excursion, SE Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 14(10):4133-4152. pdf
Boyer, D. M., G. S. Yapuncich, S. G. B. Chester, J. I. Bloch, M. Godinot. In press. Hands of early Primates. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 57:33-78. pdf
Boyer, D. M., E. R. Seiffert, J. T. Gladman, J. I. Bloch. Evolution and allometry of calcaneal elongation in living and extinct primates. PLOS ONE. 8(7): e67792. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067792. open access
Boyer, D. M., E.R. Seiffert. 2013. Patterns of astragalar fibular facet orientation and their evolutionary implications in extant and fossil primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.151:420-447. pdf
Gladman, J.T., D.M. Boyer, E.R. Seiffert, E.L. Simons. Morphology and phenetic affinities of a calcaneus attributable to the primitive late Eocene anthropoid Proteopithecus sylviae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.151:372-397. pdf, Fig. s1, Table s1, Table s2, Table s3
Ledogar, J. A., J.M. Winchester, E.M. St. Clair, D.M. Boyer. 2013. Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 150: 107–121. pdf, erratum
2012
Boyer, D. M., L. Costeur, Y. Lipman. 2012. Earliest Record of Platychoerops (Primates, Plesiadapidae), A New Species From Mouras Quarry, Mont de Berru, France. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 149:329-346. pdf, 3D pdf of Platychoerops antiquus type
Boyer, D. M., C. S. Scott, R. C. Fox. 2012. New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 147: 511-550. pdf, Figs. s1-s7, supplement 1, supplement 2
Coleman, M. N., D. M. Boyer. 2012. Inner ear evolution in Primates through the Cenozoic: Implications for the evolution of hearing. The Anatomical Record. 295: 615-631.
Godfrey, L., J. Winchester, S. J. King, D. M. Boyer, J. Jernvall. 2012. Dental topography indicates ecological contraction of lemur communities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 148: 215-227. pdf, Table s1
King, S. J., D. M. Boyer, S. Tecot, S. G. Strait, S. Zohdy, M. B. Blanco, P. C. Wright, J. Jernvall. 2012. Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 148: 228-237. pdf
Maiolino, S., D. M. Boyer, J.I. Bloch, C. S. Gilbert, J. Groenke. 2012. Evidence for a Grooming Claw in a North American Adapiform Primate: Implications for Anthropoid Origins. PLoS ONE 7:e29136. open access
Patel, B. A., E. R. Seiffert, D. M. Boyer, R. L. Jacobs, E. M. St. Clair, E. L. Simons. 2012. New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe. Journal of Human Evolution 63: 99-120. pdf
Secord, R., J. I. Bloch, S.G.B. Chester, D. M. Boyer, A. R. Wood, M. J. Kraus, F. A. McInerney, and J. Krigbaum. 2012. Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science. 335(6071): 959-962. pdf
2011
Boyer, D. M., Y. Lipman, E. St. Clair, J. Puente, B. A. Patel, T. A. Funkhouser, J. Jernvall, I. Daubechies. 2011. New algorithms to automatically quantify the geometric similarity of anatomical surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 108 (45): 18221-18226. pdf, supplement , commentary
Blatch, S. J., D. M. Boyer, S. J. King, J. Jernvall, P. C. Wright. 2011. Changes in orientation of attritional wear facets with implications for jaw motion in a mixed longitudinal sample of Propithecus edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146:116-133. pdf
Bunn, J. M., D. M. Boyer , J. Jernvall, Y. Lipman, and I. Daubechies. 2011. Dirichlet normal surface energy of tooth crowns, a new technique of molar shape quantification for dietary inference, compared with previous methods in isolation and in combination. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145: 247-261. pdf
Coleman, M. C., D. M. Boyer. 2011. A new line of evidence for investigating cerebral circulation patterns in fossil mammals. Journal of Human Evolution. 60:106-116. pdf
Goswami, A., G. V. R. Prasad, P. Upchurch, D. M. Boyer, E. Seiffert, O. Verma, E. Gheerbrant, J. J. Flynn. 2011. A radiation of arboreal basal eutherian mammals beginning in the Late Cretaceous of India Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108(39):16333-16338. pdf
Maiolino, S., D. M. Boyer, A. Rosenberger. 2011. Morphological correlates of the grooming claw in distal phalanges of platyrrhines and other primates: a preliminary study. Anatomical Record. 294:1975-1990 pdf
Rose, K.D., S. G. B. Chester, R. H. Dunn, D. M. Boyer, A. E. Chew, J. I. Bloch. New Fossils of the Oldest North American Euprimate Teilhardina brandti (Omomyidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146:281-305. pdf
Silcox, M. T., C. K. Dalmyn, A. Hrenchuk, J. I. Bloch. D. M. Boyer, P. Houde. 2011. Endocranial morphology of Labidolemur kayi (Apatemyidae, Apatotheria) and its relevance to the study of brain evolution in Euarchontoglires. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31(6):1314-1325. pdf
2010
Boyer, D. M., G. V. R. Prasad, D. W. Krause, M. Godinot, A. Goswami, O. Verma and J. Flynn. 2010. New postcrania of Deccanolestes from the Late Cretaceous of India and their bearing on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of euarchontan mammals. Naturwissenschaften 97:365-377. pdf supplemental data
Boyer, D. M., E. R. Seiffert, and E. L. Simons. 2010. Astragalar morphology of Afradapis a large adapiform primate from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143:383-402. pdf *Go to my "Evolutionary Morphology of the Primate Astragalo-Calcaneal Complex" page to download the 3d files from this paper.
Boyer, D. M., A. Evans, and J. Jernvall. 2010. Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, Primates). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 142:194-210. pdf
Chester, S. G. B., J. I. Bloch, R. Secord, and D. M. Boyer. 2010. Dwarfing of the carnivorous mammal Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17:227-243. pdf
Kingston, A. K., D. M. Boyer, B. A. Patel, S. G. Larson, J. T. Stern Jr. 2010. Hallucal grasping in Nycticebus coucang: further implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process. Journal of Human Evolution 58:33-42. pdf
Seiffert, E. R., E. L. Simons, D. M. Boyer, J. M. Perry, T. Ryan, and H. M. Sallam. 2010. A primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:9712-9717. pdf
Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer and P. Houde. 2010. Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria) and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00614.x pdf
St. Clair, E., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, D. W. Krause. 2010. First records of a triisodontine mammal, Goniacodon levisanus, in the Late Paleocene of the northern great plains, North America. Short Communication. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.30:604-608. pdf
2009
Jacobs, R. L., D. M. Boyer, B. A. Patel. 2009. Comparative functional morphology of the primate peroneal process. Journal of Human Evolution 57:721-731. pdf
Seiffert, E. R., J. M. G. Perry, E. L. Simons and D. M. Boyer. 2009. Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates. Nature 461:1118-1121. pdf
Silcox, M., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, M. Godinot, T. M. Ryan, F. Spoor, A. Walker. 2009. The semicircular canal system in early primates, Journal of Human Evolution. 56:315-327. pdf
2008
Boyer, D. M. 2008. Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals. Journal of Human Evolution. 55:1118-1137. pdf, supplemental data
Boyer, D. M., and J. I. Bloch. 2008. “Evaluating the mitten-gliding hypothesis for Paromomyidae and Micromomyidae (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") using comparative functional morphology of new Paleogene skeletons,” in Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. Edited by E. J. Sargis and M. Dagosto, pp.233-284. Springer, Dordrecht. Netherlands. pdf
Gunnell, G. F., T. M. Bown, J. I. Bloch, and D. M. Boyer. 2008. Chapter 5. "Proteutheria". In: Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 2, Small Mammals, Xenarthrans, and Marine Mammals. Edited by C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, and M. D. Uhen, pp.63-81. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Kirk, E. C., P. Lemelin, M. W. Hamrick, D. M. Boyer and J. I. Bloch. 2008. Intrinsic hand proportions of euarchontans and other mammals: implications for the locomotor behavior of plesiadapiforms. Journal of Human Evolution 55:278-299. pdf
2007
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2007. "New skeletons of Paleocene-Eocene Plesiadapiformes: a diversity of arboreal positional behaviors in early primates," in Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, pp.535-581. Edited by M. Dagosto and M. J. Ravosa. New York: Plenum Press.
Bloch J. I., M. T. Silcox, D. M. Boyer, and E. J. Sargis. 2007. New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 1159-1164. pdf
Boyer, D. M., and J. A. Georgi. 2007. Cranial morphology of a pantolestid eutherian mammal from the Eocene Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA: implications for relationships and habitat. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14: 239-280. pdf
Boyer, D. M., B. A. Patel, S. G. Larson, and J. T. Stern Jr . 2007. Telemetered electromyography of peroneus longus in Varecia variegata and Eulemur rubriventer: implications for the functional significance of a large peroneal process. Journal of Human Evolution 53: 119-134. pdf
Sargis, E. J., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, and M. T. Silcox. 2007. Evolution of pedal grasping in Primates. Journal of Human Evolution 53: 103-107. pdf
Silcox, M. T., D. M. Boyer, J. I. Bloch, and E. J. Sargis. 2007. Revisiting the adaptive origins of primates (again). Journal of Human Evolution 53: 321-324. pdf
Silcox, M. T., E. J. Sargis, J. I. Bloch, and D. M. Boyer. 2007. Primate origins and supraordinal relationships: morphological evidence. In W. Henke, H. Rothe, and I. Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Vol. 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins, pp.831-859. Springer: Heidelberg, Germany. pdf
2005
Silcox, M. T., J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, and E. J. Sargis. 2005. "Euarchonta (Dermoptera, Scandentia, Primates)," in Rise of Placental Mammals. Edited by K. D. Rose and J. D. Archibald, pp. 127-144. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pdf
Wing, S. L., G. J. Harrington, F. A. Smith, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer, and K. H. Freeman. 2005. Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science 310:993-996. pdf
2003
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2003. Response to comment on "Grasping Primate Origins". Science 300: 741c. pdf
2002
Bloch, J. I., D. M. Boyer, P. D. Gingerich, and G. F. Gunnell. 2002. New primitive paromomyid from the Clarkforkian of Wyoming and dental eruption in Plesiadapiformes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 366-379. pdf
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2002. Grasping primate origins. Science 298: 1606-1610. pdf
2001
Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer. 2001. "Taphonomy of small mammals in freshwater limestones from the Paleocene of the Clarks Fork Basin," in Paleocene-Eocene Stratigraphy and Biotic Change in the Bighorn and Clarks Fork Basins, Wyoming. Edited by P. D. Gingerich, pp. 185-198: Museum of Paleontology Papers on Paleontology No. 33.
