Emiliano Bruner
Morphometrics, Paleoneurology and Human Evolution
"Newton did not shew the cause of the apple falling, but he shewed a similitude between the apple and the stars"
(D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1942)
Papers
- Bruner E. 2010. Morphological differences in the parietal lobes within the human genus: a neurofunctional perspective. Curr. Anthropol. 51 (in press).
- Bruner E., Martin-Loeches M., & Colom R. 2010. Human midsagittal brain shape variation: patterns, allometry, and integration. J. Anat. (in press).
- Bruner E. & Holloway R. 2010. bivariate approach to the widening of the frontal lobes in the genus Homo. J. Hum. Evol. 58: 138-146.
- Bruner E. 2010. Paleoneurología y evolución del genero humano. In M. Goñi Imízcoz & P. Martínez-Lage Alvarez (eds), Evolución humana y evolución del Alzheimer; pp. 129-137. Fundación Grunenthal. Aula Medica, Madrid.
- Costantini D., Lapresa Alonso M., Moazen M. & Bruner E. 2010. The relationship between cephalic scales and bones in lizards: a preliminary microtomographic survey on three lacertid species. Anat. Rec. 293: 183-194.
- Bruner E. & Costantini D. 2009. Head morphology and degree of variation in Lacerta bilineata, Podarcis muralis, and Podarcis sicula. Int. J. Morphol. 27: 667-676.
- Bruner E., Mantini S., Guerrini V., Ciccarelli A., Giombini A. & Ripani M. 2009. Preliminary shape analysis of the outline of the baropodometric foot: patterns of covariation, allometry, sex and age differences, and loading variations. J. Sports Med. Phys. Fitness 49: 246-254.
- Bruner E., Mantini S. & Ripani M. 2009. Landmark-based analysis of the morphological relationship between endocranial shape and traces of the middle meningeal vessels. Anat. Rec. 292: 518-527.
- Bruner E. 2009. New tools and old perspectives in the management of the fossil resources. J. Anthropol. Sci. 87: 227-228.
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- Masseti M. & Bruner E. 2009. The primates of the western Palaearctic: a biogeographical, historical, and archaeozoological review. J. Anthropol. Sci. 87: 33-91.
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- Russo T., Pulcini D., Bruner E. & Cataudella S. 2009. Shape and size variation: growth and development of the dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus Lowe, 1834). J. Morphol. 270: 83-96.
- Bruner E. & Bartolino V. 2008. Morphological variation in the seahorse vertebral system. Int. J. Morphol. 26: 247-262.
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- Barberini F. Bruner E., Cartolari R., Franchitto G., Heyn R., Ricci F. & Manzi G. 2008. An unusually-wide human bregmatic Wormian bone: anatomy, tomographic description, and possible significance. Surg. Radiol. Anat. 30: 683–687.
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- Bruner E. & Sherkat S. 2008. The middle meningeal artery: from clinics to fossils. Child’s Nerv. Syst. 24: 1289-1298.
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- Bruner E. & Ripani M. 2008. A quantitative and descriptive approach to morphological variation of the endocranial base in modern humans. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 137: 30-40.
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- Bruner E. 2008. Comparing endocranial form and shape differences in modern humans and Neandertal: a geometric approach. PaleoAnthropology 2008: 93-106.
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- Bruner E. & Manzi G. 2008. Paleoneurology of an early Neanderthal: endocranial size, shape, and features of Saccopastore 1. J. Hum. Evol. 54: 729-742.
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- Mantini S. & Bruner E. 2007. L'arteria meningea media: ipotesi evoluzionistiche sulla variabilità del genere Homo. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara: Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica (volume speciale); pp.135-139.
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- Marrocco G., Bruner E., Vallasciani S., Majore S. & Grammatico P. 2007. Do patients with hypospadias and cryptorchidism share a common phenotype? Case-control study of an Italian paediatric population. J. Pediatric Urol. 3: 477-479.
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- Bruner E. 2007. Cranial shape and size variation in human evolution: structural and functional perspectives. Childs Nerv. Sys. 23; 1357-1365.
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- Bruner E. & Jeffery N. 2007. Extracting functional, phylogenetic and structural data from the subcortical brain: an exploratory geometric morphometric survey. J. Anthropol. Sci. 85; 125-138.
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- Costantini C., Bruner E., dell'Omo G. & Fanfani A. 2007. Male-biased predation of western green lizards by Eurasian kestrels. Naturwissenschaften 94; 1015-1020.
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- Bruner E. & Costantini D. 2007. Head morphological variation in Podarcis muralis and Podarcis sicula: a landmark-based approach. Amphibia Reptilia 28; 566-573.
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- Gippoliti S. & Bruner E. 2007. The role of historical research in the study of the primatological collections: case-studies from the Museo di Antropologia G. Sergi, Rome. J. Anthropol. Sci. 85; 125-138:157-162.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2007. Landmark-based shape analysis of the archaic Homo calvarium from Ceprano (Italy). Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 132; 355-366.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2006. Saccopastore 1: the earliest Neanderthal? In Harvati K. and Harrison T (eds) Neanderthals Revisited. New Approaches and Perspectives. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Springer, New York.
- Bruner E., A. Pucci & T. Jones 2006. Cranial morphology and anatomy of two adult females of Piliocolobus gordonorum, Matschie 1900 (Udzungwa Red Colobus) (Mammalia, Primates: Colobidae). Aldrovandia 2; 73-78.
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- Bruner E. 2006. From Verheyen to Bookstein: history of colobids and superimpositions. J. Anthropol. Sci. 84; 147-160.
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- Bruner E., Manzi G. & R. Holloway 2006. Krapina and Saccopastore: Endocranial morphology in the pre-Wurmian Europeans. Period. Biolog. 108; 433-441.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2006. Digital tools for the preservation of the human fossil heritage: Ceprano, Saccopastore, and other case studies. Hum. Evol. 21; 33-44.
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- Bruner E. & S. Gippoliti 2006. Le Collezioni Primatologiche Italiane. Casa Editrice Università Sapienza, Roma
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- Bruner E., Mantini S., Perna A., Maffei C. & G. Manzi 2005. Fractal dimension of the middle meningeal vessels: variation and evolution in Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and modern humans. Eur. J. Morphol. 42; 217- 224.
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- Bruner E. & A. Cucina 2005 - Alouatta, Ateles, and the ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Journ. Anthropol. Sci. 83; 111-117.
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- Bruner E., D. Costantini, A. Fanfani & G. dell’Omo 2005 - Morphological variation and sexual dimorphism of the cephalic scales in Lacerta bilineata. Acta Zool. 86; 245-254.
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- Bruner E & G Manzi 2005 - CT-based description and phyletic evaluation of the archaic human calvarium from Ceprano, Italy. Anat Rec. 285A; 643-658.
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- Bruner E. 2004 - Models for Natural History. Journ. Anthropol. Sci. 82; 11-18.
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- Bruner E., Mantini S. & G. Manzi 2004 - A geometric morphometric approach to airorhynchy and functional cranial morphology in Alouatta (Atelidae, Primates). Journ. Anthropol. Sci. 82; 47-66.
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- Bruner E. 2004 - Geometric morphometrics and paleoneurology: brain shape evolution in the genus Homo. J. Hum. Evol. 47; 279-303.
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- Bruner E. 2004 - Evolution, actuality and species concept: a need for a paleontological tool. Hum. Evol. 19; 93-112
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- Bruner E., B. Saracino, P. Passarello, F. Ricci, M. Tafuri & G. Manzi 2004 - Midsagittal Cranial shape variation in the genus Homo by geometric morphometrics. Coll. Antropol. 28: 99-112.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2004 - Variability in facial size and shape among North and East African human populations. It. J. Zool. 71: 51-56.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2003 - Towards a re-appraisal of the Early Neolithic skeleton from Lama dei Peligni (Abruzzo, Italy). Computed tomography and 3D reconstruction of the cranium. Rivista di Antropologia 81; 69-78..
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- Bruner E. 2003 - Fossil traces of the human thought: paleoneurology and the evolution of the genus Homo. Rivista di Antropologia 81; 29-56.
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- Bruner E., G Manzi & JL Arsuaga 2003 - Encephalization and allometric trajectories in the genus Homo: Evidence from the Neandertal and modern lineages. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 15335-15340.
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- Bruner E., Averini M. & G. Manzi 2003 - Endocranial traits. Prevalence and distribution in a recent human population. Eur. Journ. Anat. 7; 23-33.
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- Manzi G., E. Bruner & P. Passarello 2003 - The one-million-year-old Homo cranium from Bouri (Ethiopia): a reconsideration of its H. erectus affinities. J. hum. Evol. 44; 731-736.
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- Bruner E. 2003 - Computed tomography and paleoneurology: the Saccopastore Neandertals and brain evolution in the European Middle Pleistocene. Tesi di Dottorato in Biologia Animale. Università La Sapienza, Roma.
- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2002 - The virtual replica of Nazlet Khater, Egypt. Cranium and mandible: first results. In (Ed. P. Vermeersch) Paleolithic Quarrying Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt; pp. 337-345. Leuven University Press: Leuven.
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- Bruner E., Ricci F. & G. Manzi 2002 - Faces from the ancient Fezzan: a geometric morphometric approach. In (Savino di Lernia & Giorgio Manzi eds) Sand, stones, and bones. The archaeology of death in the Wadi Tanezzuft valley; pp. 251-260. All’Insegna del Giglio: Firenze.
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- Bruner E., Manzi G. & P. Passarello 2002 - The “Virtual” Endocast of Saccopastore 1. General Morphology and Preliminary Comparisons by Geometric Morphometrics. In Three-Dimensional Imaging in Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology, Ed. B. Mafart and H. Delingette. British Archeol. Records IS 1049; 17-24. Archeopress: Oxford.
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- Manzi G., Bruner E., Caprasecca S., Gualdi G. & P. Passarello 2001 - CT- scanning and virtual reproduction of the Saccopastore Neandertal crania. Rivista di Antropologia 79; 61-72.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2001 - The Primates collection of the Museum of Anthropology “G. Sergi”, Rome (with some notes on taxonomy and systematics). Rivista di Antropologia 79; 229-242.
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2001 - Allometric analysis of the skull in Pan and Gorilla by geometric morphometrics. Rivista di Antropologia 79; 45-52.
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- Manzi G., B. Saracino, E. Bruner & P. Passarello 2000 - Geometric morphometric analysis of mid-sagittal cranial profiles in Neandertals, modern humans, and their ancestors. Rivista di Antropologia 78; 193-204.
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- Violante A., P. Mastroiacovo, I. Peluso, F. Grippo, P. Costantini & E. Bruner 1998 - Il potere antiossidante del plasma e la funzione tiroidea in soggetti obesi e non obesi di Rofrano. Rivista di Antropologia, 76; 79-88.
- Bruner E., P. Mastroiacovo & L. Trivelli 1998 - Analisi bioculturale sulla popolazione di longevi di Montano Antilia. Rivista di Antropologia, 76; 113-145
Didactics and Popular Science
- Bruner E. 2009. Neuroscienze ed evoluzione umana. Left 9/2009: 82-83.
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- Bruner E. 2008. Antropologia multidisciplinare o multiantropologia indisciplinata? Antrocom 4: 47-50.
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- Bruner E. 2007. Origini dell’Uomo. In “Scienza e Tecnica: Le Scienze della Vita Vol. II”, Enciclopedia Treccani, pp. 337-342.
- Bruner E. 2007. Cervelli Rifugiati. Ulisse, Saggi
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- Bruner E. 2006. Uno, nessuno, centomila: i mille volti dell’Antropologia Biologica. Antrocom, 2: 11-16.
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- Bruner E. 2005. In silico biology. Antrocom 1 /3; 229-233.
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- Bruner E. 2004 - Tomografia computerizzata e elaborazione di immagini: modelli virtuali per l'Antropologia. Atti del Convegno "Lo Studio delle ossa: Metodologie della medicina e dell'antropologia"; Angera (VA), 27 marzo 2004.
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- Bruner E. 2003 - Modelli per l'Evoluzione. Sapere, 69/5 (1028); 49-56
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- Bruner E. & G. Manzi 2002 - Adattamento biologico, comportamento sociale e longevità in Homo sapiens. In L’età matura e la longevità nella donna, Ed. A.M. De Majo, pp. 37-45; Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma.
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