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Jeffrey K. Spear

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5

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95

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Active since

2019

Affiliations

New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology(Current)

New York University

Hunter College

Stony Brook University

Jeffrey K. Spear is an author at New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology specializing in orthopaedics, evolutionary biology, and mammalogy.

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Publications per year

2019–2023

5

Publications

5

Increased variation in numbers of presacral vertebrae in suspensory mammals

Scott A. Williams, Jeffrey K. Spear, Lauren Petrullo et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · 37 citations

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Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis

Anjali M. Prabhat, Catherine Miller, Thomas C. Prang et al. · eLife · 2021 · 18 citations · Full text

Knuckle-walking in Sahelanthropus? Locomotor inferences from the ulnae of fossil hominins and other hominoids

Marc R. Meyer, Jason P. Jung, Jeffrey K. Spear et al. · Journal of Human Evolution · 2023 · 16 citations · Full text

A milk-sharing economy allows placental mammals to overcome their metabolic limits

Paola Cerrito, Jeffrey K. Spear · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 13 citations · Full text

Evolution of vertebral numbers in primates, with a focus on hominoids and the last common ancestor of hominins and panins

Jeffrey K. Spear, Mark Grabowski, Yeganeh Sekhavati et al. · Journal of Human Evolution · 2023 · 11 citations · Full text

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