| EINSTEIN’S BRAIN: |
| 2010 |
Radio interview (“Written in code”) with Seth Shostak, SETI Institute; June 14, 2010. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D., New Information about Albert Einstein’s brain. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience |
| MOTHERESE: |
| 2011 |
Falk, D., Lingua madre: Cure Materne e origini del linguaggio (translated by Paolo A. Dossena), Italian edition of Finding Our Tongues. Bollati Boringhieri. |
Dean's granddaughter, Kylene Dolen, with her doll. Reproduced from Finding Our Tongues, photograph by Michael Riddle.
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| 2010 |
Wie die Menschheit zur Sprache fand: Mütter, Kinder und der Ursprung des Sprechens (translated by Susanne Kuhlmann-war), German edition of Finding Our Tongues. German Publishing House. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D., Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language. Perseus/Basic Books. |
| 2006 |
Falk, D., invited New York Times Op-Ed Contributor: "Our Mother Tongue"; (May 14, 2006) |
| 2004 |
Falk, D. Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? (target article, commentaries, and response) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 491-503 |
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| HOBBITS & MICROCEPHALICS: |
Virtual skull and endocast of LB1
Image: Kirk Smith, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology |
| 2010 |
Falk, D., Hildebolt, C., Smith, K., Brown, P., Jungers, W. L., Larson, S. G., Sutikna, T., Prior, F.
Nonpathological asymmetry in LB1 (Homo floresiensis): A reply to Eckhardt and Henneberg. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 143:340-342. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D., Hildebolt, C., Smith, K., Jungers, W. L., Larson, S. G., Morwood, M.J., Sutikna, T., Jatmiko, Saptomo, E.W., Prior, F.
The type specimen (LB1) of Homo floresiensis did not have Laron Syndrome, Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 140:52-63. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D., Hildebolt, C., Smith, K., Morwood, M.J., Sutikna, T., Jatmiko, Saptomo, E.W. & Prior, F.
LB1’s virtual endocast, microcephaly, and hominin brain evolution. J. Hum. Evol. in press 57:597-607. |
| 2007 |
Falk, D.; Hildebolt, C.; Smith, K.; Morwood, M.J.; Sutikna, T.; Jatmiko; Saptomo W.E.; Imhof, H., Seidler, H. & F. Prior. Brain shape in human microcephalics and Homo floresiensis. PNAS 104:2513-2518.
Supporting Online Material |
| 2006 |
Falk, D.; Hildebolt, C.; Smith, K.; Morwood, M.J.; Sutikna, T.; Jatmiko; Saptomo W.E.; Brunsden, B. & F. Prior. Response to comment on "The brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis" by Martin et al. Science 312:999c.
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| 2005b |
Falk, D.; Hildebolt, C.; Smith, K.; Morwood, M.J.; Sutikna, T.; Jatmiko; Saptomo W.E.; Brunsden, B. & F. Prior. Response to comment on "The brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis" by Weber et al. Science 310:236c. |
| 2005a |
Falk, D.; Hildebolt, C.; Smith, K.; Morwood, M.J.; Sutikna, T.; Brown, P.; Jatmiko, Saptomo W.E.; Brunsden, B. & F. Prior. The brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis. Science 308:242-245.
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| BRAIN EVOLUTION/CRANIAL RADIATORS: |
| 2011 |
Falk, D., The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution. University of California Press, in press. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D. The natural endocast of Taung (Australopithecus africanus): Insights from the unpublished papers of Raymond Arthur Dart, Yrbk. Phys. Anthropol. Series 52:49-65. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D. Constraints on brain size: The radiator theory. In Squire LR (Ed), /Encyclopedia of Neuroscience/, Academic Press, Oxford, p. 347-352.
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| 2007 |
Falk, D. History of Neuroscience: The Evolution of Broca's Area, IBRO History of Neuroscience |
| 2007 |
Falk, D. & R. Clarke. New reconstruction of the Taung endocast: A brief communication. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 134:529-534. |
| 2007 |
Falk, D. Evolution of the primate brain. In W. Henke, H. Rothe & I. Tattersall (Eds), Handbook of Palaeoanthropology Vol. 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins, Springer-Verlag, p. 1133-1162. For a Belorussian translation by Martha Ruszkowski,
please see: http://blog.1800flowers.com/international/evolution-of-the-primate-brain-be/. |
| 2007 |
Wu, X, Schepartz, L. A., Falk, D. & Wu, L. Endocranial cast of Hexian Homo erectus from South China . Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 130:445-454. |
| OTHERS: |
| 2009 |
Falk, D. Evolution of language. In M. Ruse & J. Travis (Eds),
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 562-566. |
| 2009 |
Falk, D. Hobbit. In M. Ruse & J. Travis (Eds),
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 634-636. |
| 2006 |
Falk, D. & Seguchi, N. Professor C. Loring Brace: Bringing physical anthropology ("kicking and screaming") into the 21st century! Retrospectives on Eight Michigan Anthropologists (Ed: Derek Pomeroy Brereton), Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Vol. 16:175-211, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| 2004 |
Falk, D. Braindance, Revised and Expanded Edition. University Press of Florida. |
| 2003 |
Keenan, J., with Gallup, G. and D. Falk. The Face in the Mirror Ecco (Harper Collins). |
| 2001 |
Falk, D. and K. Gibson (eds) Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| 2000 |
Falk, D. Primate Diversity. New York: Norton. |
| 2000 |
Falk, D. Careers in science offer women an unusual bonus: immortality. Nature 407:833.. |
| 2000 |
Falk, D., Redmond, J. C., Jr., Guyer, J., Conroy, G. C., Recheis, W., Weber, G. W. and H. Seidler. Hominid brain evolution: A new look at old endocasts, J. Hum. Evol. 38:695-717. |
My research focuses on the evolution of the brain and cognition in higher primates, including humans. I am currently working on several collaborative projects on the brains (endocasts) of a number of very early hominins. My latest book, The Fossil chronicles: How Two controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution, compares and contrasts the discoveries of Taung (Australopithecus africancus, 1925) and Hobbit (Homo floresiensis, 2004) within an historical framework that takes into account shifting scientific paradigms and the tensions between scientists and religious fundamentalists. It should appear in October, 2011.
Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Prehistory, ANT2511, WJB, 2005, TR 11:00-12:15.
