Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

 

  • In Press: Turcotte CM, Green DJ, Kupczik K, McFarlin SC, Schulz-Kornas E. Elevated activity levels do not influence extrinsic fiber attachment morphology on the surface of muscle attachment sites. Journal of Anatomy.

  • 2019: McGrath KJ, Reid DJ, Guatelli-Steinberg D, Arbenz-Smith K, El Zaatari S, Fatica LM, Kralick AE, Cranfield MR, Stoinski TS, Bromage TG, Mudakikwa A, McFarlin SC. Faster growth corresponds with shallower linear hypoplastic defects in great ape canines.  Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102691

  • 2019: Fatica L, Almécija S, McFarlin SC, Hammond A. Pelvic shape variation between gorilla subspecies: phylogenetic and ecological signals.  Journal of Human Evolution . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102684

  • 2019: Wright E, Galbany J, McFarlin SC, Ndayishimiye E, Stoinski TS, Robbins MM. Male body size, dominance rank and strategic use of aggression in a group-living mammal. Animal Behaviour 151:87-102; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.03.011

  • 2018: Galbany J, Muhire T, Vecellio V, Nyiramana A, Cranfield MR, Stoinski TS, McFarlin SC. Brief Communication:  Incisor tooth wear and age determination in mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 167:930–935; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23720

  • 2018: Ruff CB, Burgess ML, Junno J-A, Mudakikwa A, Zollikofer C, Ponce de Leon M, McFarlin SC.  Phylogenetic and environmental effects on limb bone structure in gorillas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(2) 353-372; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23437

  • 2018: McGrath KJ, El-Zaatari S, Guatelli-Steinberg D, Stanton M, Reid DJ, Stoinski TS, Cranfield MR, Mudakikwa A, McFarlin SC. Quantifying linear enamel hypoplasia in Virunga mountain gorillas and other great apes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(2): 337-352; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23436

  • 2018: Thompson NE, Ostrofsky KR, McFarlin SC, Robbins MM, Stoinski TS, Almécija S. Unexpected terrestrial hand posture diversity in wild mountain gorillas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(1):84-94; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23404

  • 2017: Burgess ML, McFarlin SC, Mudakikwa A, Cranfield MR, Ruff CB.  Body mass estimation in hominoids: age and locomotor effects.  Journal of Human Evolution 115:36-46; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.004

  • 2017: Glowacka H, McFarlin SC, Vogel ER, Stoinski TS, Tuyisingize D, Mudakikwa A, Schwartz GT.  Toughness of the Virunga mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) diet across an altitudinal gradient.  American Journal of Primatology 79(8):e22661; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22661

  • 2017: Galbany J, Abavandimwe D, Vakiener MV, Eckardt W, Mudakikwa A, Ndagijimana F, Stoinski TS, McFarlin SC.  Body size growth and life history in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163:570-590; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23232

  • 2017: Kralick A, Burgess L, Glowacka H, Arbenz-Smith K, McGrath KJ, Ruff CB, Chan KC, Cranfield MR, Stoinski TS, Bromage TG, Mudakikwa A, McFarlin SC.  A radiographic study of molar development in wild Virunga mountain gorillas of known chronological age from Rwanda.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163:129-147; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23192

  • 2016: Burgess ML, Schmitt D, Zeininger A, McFarlin SC, Zihlman AL, Polk JD, Ruff CB.  Ontogenetic scaling of fore- and hindlimb joint posture and limb bone cross-sectional geometry in grivets and baboons.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161:72-83; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23009

  • 2016: Glowacka H, McFarlin S, Catlett KK, Mudakikwa A, Bromage TG, Cranfield MR, Stoinski TS, Schwartz GT.  Age-related changes in molar topography and shearing crest length in a wild population of mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160:3-15; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22943

  • 2016: Galbany J, Imanizabayo O, Romero A, Vecellio V, Glowacka H, Cranfield M, Bromage TG, Mudakikwa A, Stoinski TS, McFarlin SC.  Tooth wear and feeding ecology in mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159:457-465; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22897

  • 2016: Galbany J, Stoinski T, Abavandimwe D, Breuer T, Rutkowski W, Batista N, Ndagijimana F, McFarlin SC.  New Approaches: Validation of two independent photogrammetric techniques methods for determining body measurements of gorillas. American Journal of Primatology 78:418-431; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22511

  • 2016: McFarlin SC, Terranova CJ, Zihlman AL, Bromage TG.   Primary bone microstructure records developmental aspects of life history in catarrhine primates.  Journal of Human Evolution 92:60-79;  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.12.004 

  • 2016: Tocheri MW, Dommain R, McFarlin SC, Burnett SE, Case DT, Orr CM, Roach NT, Villmoare B, Eriksen AB, Kalthoff D, Senck S, Assefa Z, Groves CP, Jungers WL.  The evolutionary origin of the grauer gorilla. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 159:S4-S18; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22900

  • 2015: Verendeev A, Thomas C, McFarlin SC, Hopkins WD, Phillips KA, Sherwood CC.  A comparative analysis of Meissner corpuscles in the fingertips of humans and other primates.  Journal of Anatomy 227:72-80; https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.12327

  • 2015: Rabey KN, Green DJ, Taylor AB, Begun DR, Richmond BG, McFarlin SC. Locomotor activity influences muscle and bone growth but not attachment site morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 78:91-102; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.010

  • 2013: Ruff CB, *Burgess LM, Bromage TG, Mudakikwa A, McFarlin SC.  Ontogenetic changes in limb bone structural proportions in mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei).  Journal of Human Evolution 65(6):693-703; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.06.008

  • 2013: McFarlin SC, Barks SK, Tocheri MW, *Massey JS, *Eriksen AB, Fawcett KA, Stoinski TS, Hof PR, Bromage TG, Mudakikwa A, Cranfield MR, Sherwood CC.  Early brain growth cessation in Virunga mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei).  American Journal of Primatology. 75:450-463; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22100

  • 2009: Bromage TG, Lacruz RS, Hogg R, Goldman HM, McFarlin SC, Warshaw J, Dirks W, Perez Ochoa A, Smolyar I, Boyde A.  Lamellar bone is an incremental tissue reconciling enamel rhythms, body size, and organismal life history. Calcified Tissue International 84:388-404; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00223-009-9221-2

  • 2009: Bromage TG, Goldman HM, McFarlin SC, Perez Ochoa A, Boyde A. Confocal scanning optical microscopy of a 3 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis femur. Scanning 31:1-10; https://doi.org/10.1002/sca.20139  *Cover article.

  • 2009: Goldman HM, McFarlin SC, Cooper DML, Thomas CDL, Clement JG. Ontogenetic patterning of cortical bone microstructure and geometry at the human mid-shaft femur. Anatomical Record 292:48-64; https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.20778

  • 2008: McFarlin SC, Terranova CJ, Zihlman AL, Enlow DH, Bromage TG.  Regional variability in secondary remodeling within long bone cortices of catarrhine primates: the influence of bone growth history.  Journal of Anatomy 213(3):308-324; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00947.x

  • 2003: Bromage TG, Goldman HM, McFarlin SC, Warshaw J, Riggs CM., Boyde A.  Circularly polarized light standards for investigations of collagen fiber orientation in bone.  The Anatomical Record:  The New Anatomist 274B:157-168; https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.b.10031

Book Chapters

 

  • 2020: Galbany J, Twahirwa JC, Baiges-Sotos L, Kane EE, Tuyisingize D, Kaleme P, Rwetsiba A, Bitariho R, Cranfield MR, Bromage TG, Mudakikwa A, Stoinski TS, Robbins MM, McFarlin SC. Dental macrowear in catarrhine primates: variability across species. In: Schmidt C & Watson JT (Eds.) Dental wear in evolutionary and biocultural contexts. Elsevier/Academic Press. Pp. 11-37.

  • 1997: McFarlin SC, Wineski L.  The Cutting Edge:  Experimental anatomy and the reconstruction of nineteenth-century dissection techniques.  In (R.L. Blakely & J.M. Harrington, eds.) Bones in the Basement:  Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training.  Washington DC:  Smithsonian Institution Press.  Pp. 107-161.

     

  • 1997: Terrell KJ, McFarlin SC.  Subsistence and Science:  Faunal analysis of the Medical College of Georgia Site.  In (R.L. Blakely & J.M. Harrington, eds.) Bones in the Basement:  Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training.  Washington DC:  Smithsonian Institution Press.  Pp. 81-106.