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Dr Amélie Beaudet

Biography

I am a paleoanthropologist working on Plio-Pleistocene hominin paleobiology with a particular interest in the evolutionary and adaptive contexts from which the genus Homo emerged. I started my research on the African fossil record within the frame of my PhD at the University of Toulouse (France) in 2012 that focused on the study of nonhominin primates that coexisted with hominins during the Plio-Pleistocene transition in Africa. During my postdoctoral contract at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in 2016 funded by the Erasmus program AESOP+, I developed a particular interest in the hominin brain evolutionary history. Subsequently, I was granted funding from the Claude Leon Foundation and the Center of Excellence in Palaeosciences to study the fossil hominin assemblage from the site of Sterkfontein as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) from 2017 to 2020. I joined the University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 2020 - 2023.

Research

My research focuses on reconstructing the paleobiology and evolutionary history of early hominins. I explore evidence from the African fossil record (e.g., Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa) to help unravel the history of our own lineage and understand the emergence of some of the most critical human adaptations. Throughout my doctoral and postdoctoral experience in France and South Africa, I have been developing two main lines of research dealing with brain evolution and locomotor behaviour in Australopithecus, Paranthropus and early Homo. As a member of the Sterkfontein Research Team, I contribute to the description of iconic (e.g., Little Foot) and newly discovered fossil specimens from the paleontological sites of the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa. Within the frame of the research projects HoN (Human Origins in Namibia) and HOMME (Human Origins in Mozambique and Malawi Environments), I am involved in fieldwork in southern Africa (e.g., Namibia, Mozambique). 

 

Key Publications

Key publications: 

Beaudet A., Clarke R.J., Heaton J.L., Pickering T.R., Carlson K.J., Crompton R., Jashashvili T., Bruxelles L., Jakata K., Bam L., Van Hoorebeke L., Kuman K. & Stratford D. (2020) The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism. Scientific Reports 10: 4285. 

Urciuoli A., Zanolli C., Beaudet A., Dumoncel J., Moyà-Solà S. & Alba D. (2020) The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans. eLife 9: e51261. 

Beaudet A. (2019) The inner ear of the Paranthropus specimen DNH 22 from Drimolen, South Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170: 439-446. 

Beaudet A., Du A. & Wood B.A. (2019) Evolution of the modern human brain. In: Hofman M.A. (Ed.) Evolution of the human brain: from matter to mind. Progress in Brain Research. Elsevier, Cambridge, pp. 219-250. 

Beaudet A., Clarke R.J., Bruxelles L., Carlson K.J., Crompton R., de Beer F., Dhaene J., Heaton J.L., Jakata K., Jashashvili T., Kuman K., McClymont J., Pickering T.R. & Stratford D. (2019) The bony labyrinth of StW 573 (“Little Foot”): implications for hominin evolution and paleobiology. Journal of Human Evolution 127: 67-80. 

Beaudet A., Clarke R.J., de Jager E., Bruxelles L., Carlson K.J., Crompton R., de Beer F., Dhaene J., Heaton J.L., Jakata K., Jashashvili T., Kuman K., McClymont J., Pickering T.R. & Stratford D. (2019) The endocast of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) and hominin brain evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 126: 112-123. 

Pereira-Pedro A.S., Beaudet A. & Bruner E. (2019) Parietal lobe variation in cercopithecid endocasts. American Journal of Primatology 81: e23025. 

de Jager E., Van Schoor A.N., Hoffman J.W., Oettlé A.C., Fonta C., Mescam M., Risser L. & Beaudet A. (2019) Sulcal pattern variation in extant human endocasts. Journal of Anatomy 235: 803-810. 

Bouchet F., Ribéron A., Heaton J.L., de Beer F., Jakata K., Tawane M., Tenailleau C., Zipfel B. & Beaudet A. (2019) The inner craniodental anatomy of the Papio specimen UW 88-886 from the Early Pleistocene site of Malapa, Gauteng, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 53: 192-206. 

Mataboge B., Beaudet A., Heaton J., Pickering T. & Stratford D.  (2019) Endostructural assessment of a hominin maxillary molar (StW 669) from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 115: 1-4. 

Beaudet A. & Gilissen E. (2018) Fossil primate endocasts: perspectives from advanced imaging techniques. In: Bruner E., Ogihara N. & Tanabe H. (Eds.), Digital Endocasts: from skulls to brains. Springer, Nagoya, pp. 47-58. 

Beaudet A., Heaton J.L., L’Abbé E.N., Pickering T.R. & Stratford D. (2018) Hominin cranial fragments from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 114: 1-6. 

Beaudet A., Carlson K.J., Clarke R.J., de Beer F., Dhaene J., Heaton J., Pickering T.R. & Stratford D. (2018) Cranial vault thickness variation and inner structural organization in the StW 578 hominin cranium from Jacovec Cavern, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 121: 204-220. 

Beaudet A., Dumoncel J., de Beer F., Durrleman S., Gilissen E., Oettlé A., Subsol G., Thackeray F. & Braga J. (2018) The endocranial shape of Australopithecus africanus: surface analysis of the endocasts of Sts 5 and Sts 60. Journal of Anatomy 232: 296-303. 

Beaudet A. (2017) The emergence of language in the hominin lineage: perspectives from fossil endocasts. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11: 427. 

Beaudet A. & Bruner E. (2017) A frontal lobe surface analysis in three archaic African human fossils: OH 9, Buia, and Bodo. Comptes Rendus Palevol 16: 499-507. 

Fourvel J.B., Brink J., Beaudet A. & Pavia M. (2017) Some preliminary interpretations of the oldest faunal assemblage from Kromdraai B. In: Braga J. & Thackeray F.J. (Eds.), Kromdraai: a Birthplace of Paranthropus in the Cradle of Humankind, chapter 5. Sun MeDIA MeTRO, Johannesburg, pp. 71-104. 

Beaudet A., Dumoncel J., de Beer F., Duployer B., Durrleman S., Gilissen E., Hoffman J., Tenailleau C., Thackeray J.F. & Braga J. (2016) Morphoarchitectural variation in South African fossil cercopithecoid endocasts. Journal of Human Evolution 101: 65-78. 

Beaudet A., Dumoncel J., Thackeray J.F., Bruxelles L., Duployer B., Tenailleau C., Bam L., Hoffman J., de Beer F. & Braga J. (2016) Upper third molar internal structural organization and semicircular canal morphology in Plio-Pleistocene South African cercopithecoids. Journal of Human Evolution 95: 104-120. 

Beaudet A., Braga J., de Beer F., Schillinger B., Steininger C., Vodopivec V. & Zanolli C. (2016) Neutron microtomography-based virtual extraction and analysis of a cercopithecoid partial cranium (STS 1039) embedded in a breccia fragment from Sterkfontein Member 4 (South Africa). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159: 737-745. 

Beaudet A., Zanolli C., Engda Redae B., Endalamaw M., Braga, J. & Macchiarelli R. (2015) A new cercopithecoid dentognathic specimen attributed to Theropithecus from the late Early Pleistocene (c. 1 Ma) deposits of Simbiro, at Melka Kunture, Ethiopian highlands. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14: 657-669. 

Publication

Journal articles

2023

  • Bruner, E. and Beaudet, A., 2023. The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology. J Hum Evol, v. 174 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103281
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  • Beaudet, A., 2023. The Australopithecus assemblage from Sterkfontein Member 4 (South Africa) and the concept of variation in palaeontology. Evol Anthropol, v. 32 10.1002/evan.21972
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  • Beaudet, A. and de Jager, E., 2023. Broca's area, variation and taxic diversity in early Homo from Koobi Fora (Kenya). Elife, v. 12 10.7554/eLife.89054
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    2022

  • Beaudet, A., Francesco d'Errico, , Backwell, L., Wadley, L., Zipfel, B., de la Peña, P. and Reyes-Centeno, H., 2022. A reappraisal of the Border Cave 1 cranium (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 282 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107452
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  • de Jager, EJ., Risser, L., Mescam, M., Fonta, C. and Beaudet, A., 2022. Sulci 3D mapping from human cranial endocasts: A powerful tool to study hominin brain evolution. Hum Brain Mapp, v. 43 http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25964
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  • Zanolli, C., Davies, TW., Joannes-Boyau, R., Beaudet, A., Bruxelles, L., de Beer, F., Hoffman, J., Hublin, J-J., Jakata, K., Kgasi, L., Kullmer, O., Macchiarelli, R., Pan, L., Schrenk, F., Santos, F., Stratford, D., Tawane, M., Thackeray, F., Xing, S., Zipfel, B. and Skinner, MM., 2022. Dental data challenge the ubiquitous presence of Homo in the Cradle of Humankind. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 119 http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111212119
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  • Backwell, L., Wadley, L., d'Errico, F., Banks, WE., Peña, PDL., Stratford, D., Sievers, C., Laue, G., Vilane, B., Clark, J., Tribolo, C., Beaudet, A., Jashashvili, T., Carlson, KJ., Lennox, S., Esteban, I. and Mauran, G., 2022. Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 291 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107597
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  • Balzeau, A., Albessard-Ball, L., Kubicka, AM., Filippo, A., Beaudet, A., Santos, E., Bienvenu, T., Arsuaga, J-L., Bartsiokas, A., Berger, L., Bermúdez de Castro, JM., Brunet, M., Carlson, KJ., Daura, J., Gorgoulis, VG., Grine, FE., Harvati, K., Hawks, J., Herries, A., Hublin, J-J., Hui, J., Ives, R., Joordens, JA., Kaifu, Y., Kouloukoussa, M., Léger, B., Lordkipanidze, D., Margvelashvili, A., Martin, J., Martinón-Torres, M., May, H., Mounier, A., du Plessis, A., Rae, T., Röding, C., Sanz, M., Semal, P., Stratford, D., Stringer, C., Tawane, M., Temming, H., Tsoukala, E., Zilhão, J., Zipfel, B. and Buck, LT., 2022. Frontal sinuses and human evolution. Sci Adv, v. 8 http://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abp9767
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  • Beaudet, A., 2022. Morphological variation and species concept in palaeoanthropology: comments on Australopithecus from southern Africa Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, v. 34 10.4000/BMSAP.10398
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    2021 (Accepted for publication)

  • Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Heaton, J., Pickering, T., Clarke, R., Carlson, K., Bam, L., Van Hoorebeke, L. and Stratford, D., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Shape analysis of the StW 578 calotte from Jacovec Cavern, Gauteng (South Africa), Academy of Science of South Africa South African Journal of Science, http://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/11743
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    2021

  • Beaudet, A., 2021. The enigmatic origins of the human brain. Science, v. 372 http://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi4661
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  • Beaudet, A., Atwood, RC., Kockelmann, W., Fernandez, V., Connolley, T., Vo, NT., Clarke, R. and Stratford, D., 2021. Preliminary paleohistological observations of the StW 573 ('Little Foot') skull. Elife, v. 10 http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64804
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  • Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Almécija, S., Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Morimoto, N., Nakatsukasa, M., Moyà-Solà, S., Begun, DR. and Alba, DM., 2021. Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the late Miocene apes Hispanopithecus and Rudapithecus based on vestibular morphology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 118 http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015215118
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  • Beaudet, A., Holloway, R. and Benazzi, S., 2021. A comparative study of the endocasts of OH 5 and SK 1585: Implications for the paleoneurology of eastern and southern African Paranthropus, Elsevier BV Journal of Human Evolution, v. 156 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103010
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  • Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Beaudet, A., Pina, M., Almécija, S., Moyà-Solà, S. and Alba, DM., 2021. A comparative analysis of the vestibular apparatus in Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: Phylogenetic implications. J Hum Evol, v. 151 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102930
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  • Carlson, KJ., Green, DJ., Jashashvili, T., Pickering, TR., Heaton, JL., Beaudet, A., Stratford, D., Crompton, R., Kuman, K., Bruxelles, L. and Clarke, RJ., 2021. The pectoral girdle of StW 573 ('Little Foot') and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina. J Hum Evol, v. 158 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102983
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  • Bouchet, F., Urciuoli, A., Beaudet, A., Pina, M., Moyà-Solà, S. and Alba, DM., 2021. Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae. J Hum Evol, v. 161 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103073
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  • Crompton, RH., McClymont, J., Elton, S., Thorpe, S., Sellers, W., Heaton, J., Pickering, TR., Pataky, T., Carlson, KJ., Jashashvili, T., Beaudet, A., Bruxelles, L., Goh, E., Kuman, K. and Clarke, R., 2021. StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus: Its Significance for an Australopith Bauplan. Folia Primatol (Basel), v. 92 http://doi.org/10.1159/000519723
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  • Dumoncel, J., Subsol, G., Durrleman, S., Bertrand, A., de Jager, E., Oettlé, AC., Lockhat, Z., Suleman, FE. and Beaudet, A., 2021. Are endocasts reliable proxies for brains? A 3D quantitative comparison of the extant human brain and endocast. J Anat, v. 238 http://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13318
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    2020

  • Beaudet, A., Clarke, RJ., Heaton, JL., Pickering, TR., Carlson, KJ., Crompton, RH., Jashashvili, T., Bruxelles, L., Jakata, K., Bam, L., Van Hoorebeke, L., Kuman, K. and Stratford, D., 2020. The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism. Sci Rep, v. 10 http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60837-2
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  • Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Santos, F., Moyà-Solà, S. and Alba, DM., 2020. The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans. Elife, v. 9 http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51261
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    2019

  • Bruxelles, L., Stratford, DJ., Maire, R., Pickering, TR., Heaton, JL., Beaudet, A., Kuman, K., Crompton, R., Carlson, KJ., Jashashvili, T., McClymont, J., Leader, GM. and Clarke, RJ., 2019. A multiscale stratigraphic investigation of the context of StW 573 'Little Foot' and Member 2, Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa. J Hum Evol, v. 133 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.008
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  • Pereira-Pedro, AS., Beaudet, A. and Bruner, E., 2019. Parietal lobe variation in cercopithecid endocasts. Am J Primatol, v. 81 http://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23025
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  • Mataboge, B., Beaudet, A., Heaton, JL., Pickering, TR. and Stratford, D., 2019. Endostructural assessment of a hominin maxillary molar (StW 669) from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa South African Journal of Science, v. 115 http://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/6404
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  • de Jager, EJ., van Schoor, AN., Hoffman, JW., Oettlé, AC., Fonta, C., Mescam, M., Risser, L. and Beaudet, A., 2019. Sulcal pattern variation in extant human endocasts. J Anat, v. 235 http://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13030
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  • Beaudet, A., Clarke, RJ., Bruxelles, L., Carlson, KJ., Crompton, R., de Beer, F., Dhaene, J., Heaton, JL., Jakata, K., Jashashvili, T., Kuman, K., McClymont, J., Pickering, TR. and Stratford, D., 2019. The bony labyrinth of StW 573 ("Little Foot"): Implications for early hominin evolution and paleobiology. J Hum Evol, v. 127 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.002
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  • Beaudet, A., 2019. The inner ear of the Paranthropus specimen DNH 22 from Drimolen, South Africa. Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 170 http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23901
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  • Beaudet, A., Clarke, RJ., de Jager, EJ., Bruxelles, L., Carlson, KJ., Crompton, R., de Beer, F., Dhaene, J., Heaton, JL., Jakata, K., Jashashvili, T., Kuman, K., McClymont, J., Pickering, TR. and Stratford, D., 2019. The endocast of StW 573 ("Little Foot") and hominin brain evolution. J Hum Evol, v. 126 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.11.009
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  • Heaton, JL., Pickering, TR., Carlson, KJ., Crompton, RH., Jashashvili, T., Beaudet, A., Bruxelles, L., Kuman, K., Heile, AJ., Stratford, D. and Clarke, RJ., 2019. The long limb bones of the StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2: Descriptions and proportions. J Hum Evol, v. 133 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.015
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  • Bouchet, F., Ribéron, A., Heaton, JL., Hoffman, J., Bam, L., Jakata, K., Tawane, M., Tenailleau, C., Zipfel, B. and Beaudet, A., 2019. The inner craniodental anatomy of the Papio specimen U.W. 88-886 from the Early Pleistocene site of Malapa, Gauteng, South Africa Palaeontologia Africana, v. 53
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    2018

  • Beaudet, A., Heaton, JL., L'Abbé, EN., Pickering, TR. and Stratford, D., 2018. Hominin cranial fragments from milner hall, sterkfontein, South Africa South African Journal of Science, v. 114 http://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2018/5262
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  • Beaudet, A., Carlson, KJ., Clarke, RJ., de Beer, F., Dhaene, J., Heaton, JL., Pickering, TR. and Stratford, D., 2018. Cranial vault thickness variation and inner structural organization in the StW 578 hominin cranium from Jacovec Cavern, South Africa. J Hum Evol, v. 121 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.004
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  • Bruxelles, L., Maire, R., Beaudet, A., Couzens, R., Duranthon, F., Fourvel, J-B., Stratford, D., Thackeray, F. and Braga, J., 2018. RETRACTED: The revised stratigraphy of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa) and associated perspectives. J Hum Evol, v. 114 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.005
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  • Bruxelles, L., Maire, R., Beaudet, A., Couzens, R., Duranthon, F., Fourvel, J-B., Stratford, D., Thackeray, F. and Braga, J., 2018. Retraction notice to: The revised stratigraphy of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa) and associated perspectives [J. Human Evol. 114 (2018) 1-19]. J Hum Evol, v. 114 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.02.001
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  • Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., de Beer, F., Durrleman, S., Gilissen, E., Oettlé, A., Subsol, G., Thackeray, JF. and Braga, J., 2018. The endocranial shape of Australopithecus africanus: surface analysis of the endocasts of Sts 5 and Sts 60. J Anat, v. 232 http://doi.org/10.1111/joa.12745
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  • Schillinger, B., Beaudet, A., Fedrigo, A., Grazzi, F., Kullmer, O., Laaß, M., Makowska, M., Werneburg, I. and Zanolli, C., 2018. Neutron imaging in cultural heritage research at the FRM II reactor of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz center Journal of Imaging, v. 4 http://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging4010022
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    2017

  • Beaudet, A. and Bruner, E., 2017. A frontal lobe surface analysis in three archaic African human fossils: OH 9, Buia, and Bodo Comptes Rendus - Palevol, v. 16 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2016.12.002
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  • Beaudet, A., 2017. The Emergence of Language in the Hominin Lineage: Perspectives from Fossil Endocasts. Front Hum Neurosci, v. 11 http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00427
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  • Zanolli, C., Schillinger, B., Beaudet, A., Kullmer, O., Macchiarelli, R., Mancini, L., Schrenk, F., Tuniz, C. and Vodopivec, V., 2017. Exploring Hominin and Non-hominin Primate Dental Fossil Remains with Neutron Microtomography Physics Procedia, v. 88 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2017.06.014
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    2016

  • Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., de Beer, F., Duployer, B., Durrleman, S., Gilissen, E., Hoffman, J., Tenailleau, C., Thackeray, JF. and Braga, J., 2016. Morphoarchitectural variation in South African fossil cercopithecoid endocasts. J Hum Evol, v. 101 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.003
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  • Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Thackeray, JF., Bruxelles, L., Duployer, B., Tenailleau, C., Bam, L., Hoffman, J., de Beer, F. and Braga, J., 2016. Upper third molar internal structural organization and semicircular canal morphology in Plio-Pleistocene South African cercopithecoids. J Hum Evol, v. 95 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.04.004
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  • Beaudet, A., Braga, J., de Beer, F., Schillinger, B., Steininger, C., Vodopivec, V. and Zanolli, C., 2016. Neutron microtomography-based virtual extraction and analysis of a cercopithecoid partial cranium (STS 1039) embedded in a breccia fragment from sterkfontein member 4 (South Africa). Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 159 http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22916
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    2015

  • Beaudet, A., Zanolli, C., Redae, BE., Endalamaw, M., Braga, J. and Macchiarelli, R., 2015. A new cercopithecoid dentognathic specimen attributed to Theropithecus from the late Early Pleistocene (c. 1 Ma) deposits of Simbiro, at Melka Kunture, Ethiopian highlands Comptes Rendus - Palevol, v. 14 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2015.07.003
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    Other publications

    2022

  • de Jager, E., Prigge, L., Amod, N., Oettlé, A. and Beaudet, A., 2022. Exploring the relationship between soft and hard tissues: The example of vertebral arteries and transverse foramina. J Anat, v. 241 http://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13681
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    Conference proceedings

    2020

  • Beaudet, A., 2020. Early hominin brain evolution: what can fossil endocasts tell us? AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 171
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    2019

  • Jashashvili, T., Patel, BA., Carlson, KJ., Heaton, JL., Pickering, TR., Crompton, R., Kuman, K., Beaudet, A., Mcclymont, J., Bruxelles, L., Stratford, D. and Clarke, RJ., 2019. The wrist and hand of the StW 573 ("Little Foot") AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 168
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  • Beaudet, A., Clarke, RJ., Heaton, JL., Pickering, TR., Carlson, KJ., Crompton, R., Jashashvili, T., Bruxelles, L., Jakata, K., Hoffman, J., Dhaene, J. and Stratford, D., 2019. The atlas of the <i>Australopithecus</i> specimen StW 573 ("Little Foot") AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 168
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    2018

  • Beaudet, A., Carlson, K., Clarke, R., De Beer, F., Dierick, M., Heaton, J., Pickering, T. and Stratford, D., 2018. The taxonomic diagnosis of the StW 578 cranium from Jacovec Cavern, Gauteng (South Africa): integrating inner and outer morphology AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 165
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  • De Jager, EJ., Van Schoor, AN., Hoffman, JW., Oettle, AC., Fonta, C. and Beaudet, A., 2018. Sulcal pattern variation in extant human endocasts AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 165
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    2017

  • Beaudet, A. and Bruner, E., 2017. A deformation-based approach to the frontal lobe morphology in OH9, UA 31 and Bodo AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 162
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    2016

  • Dumoncel, J., Subsol, G., Durrleman, S., Jessel, JP., Beaudet, A. and Braga, J., 2016. How to Build an Average Model When Samples are Variably Incomplete? Application to Fossil Data IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, http://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2016.74
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  • Cazenave, M., Beaudet, A., Braga, J., Oettle, A., Thackeray, JF., Hoffman, J., De Beer, F. and Macchiarelli, R., 2016. The inner structural organization of a (likely) paranthropine patella from Swartkrans Member 2 (SKX 1084): human- and nonhuman-like features AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 159
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  • Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Bam, L., Durrleman, S., Gilissen, E., Hoffman, J., Oettle, A., Thackeray, JF. and Braga, J., 2016. Reconstructing early hominin brain evolution from South African Australopithecus endocasts AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 159
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    2014

  • Beaudet, A., Bruxelles, L., Macchiarelli, R., Dumoncel, J., Thackeray, JF., Bam, L., Hoffman, J., De Beer, F. and Braga, J., 2014. Full sequence dating of South African early hominins units based on new cercopithecoid chronological markers AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 153
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    Book chapters

    2019

  • Beaudet, A., Du, A. and Wood, B., 2019. Evolution of the modern human brain. http://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.01.004
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    2018

  • Beaudet, A. and Gilissen, E., 2018. Fossil Primate Endocasts: Perspectives from Advanced Imaging Techniques http://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56582-6_4
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    Other Professional Activities

    Associate Editor (since 2018) in Journal of Human Evolution 

    Job Titles

    Honorary Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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    Research Expertise / Fields of study: 
    Paleoanthropology
    Human Evolution

    Contact Details

    aab88 [at] cam.ac.uk
    http://www.ameliebeaudet.com/

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    Person keywords: 
    paleoanthropology; early hominin paleobiology; brain evolution; Plio-Pleistocene; imaging techniques
    Subjects: 
    Biological Anthropology
    Themes: 
    Human Evolutionary Studies
    Geographical areas: 
    Africa
    Periods of interest: 
    Other Prehistory
    Palaeolithic/Mesolithic

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