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Schroeder, L., Madison, P., & Ackermann, R.R. Why heads matter in palaeoanthropology: the impacts and consequences of collecting skulls. South African Journal of Science, 121(1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/18481

Madupe, P. P., Munir, F., Dickinson, M., Taurozzi, A. J., Mackie, M., Tawane, M., Mollereau, C., Hlazo, N. P., Penkman, K., Schroeder, L., Zanolli, C., Olsen, J. V., Ackermann, R. R., & Cappellini, E. (2025). Results from an Australopithecus africanus dental enamel fragment confirm the potential of palaeoproteomics for South African Plio-Pleistocene fossil sites. South African Journal of Science, 121(1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/18571

Ackermann, R. R., Pickering, R., Sahle, Y., & Schroeder, L. (2025). The Taung Child then and now: Commemorating its centenary in a postcolonial age. South African Journal of Science, 121(1/2). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/20667

Schroeder, L. (2025). Ceding Control and Recognizing Violence: The Fossil and Extant Nonhuman Species of Anthro-Cast. Comment on "Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast: The Work of Bones in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Colwell, C. and Rutherford, D. Current Anthropology 66. https://doi.org/10.1086/734297.

Schroeder, L., & Komza, K. Evaluating hominin taxic diversity in the African Middle Pleistocene with evolutionary quantitative genetics. Paleoanthropology, Early View. https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/31

Ackermann, R.R., Athreya, S., Black, W., Humphreys, R., Pickering, R., Sahle, Y., Schroeder, L. Decolonizing Paleoanthropology - building for the future. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2549

Nagendran, L., Li, M. F., Samson, D. R., & Schroeder, L. (2025). The impact of Daylight Saving Time on dog activity. PloS one, 20(1), e0317028. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317028

Del Giacco, L., & Schroeder, L. (2025) Does early Homo dental size variation follow a neutral pattern of divergence? PaleoAnthropology, Early View. https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/20

Lang, M.M., López-Aguirre, C., Schroeder, L., & Silcox, M.T. (2024) Endocranial shape variation and allometry in Euarchontoglires. Scientific Reports 14(1): 17901. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68390-y

Selig, K.R., Ramsay, M.S., Lahosky, R., Schroeder, L., & Silcox, M.T. (2024) Variation in dental morphology and dietary breadth in primates and their kin. Journal of Mammalogy 105, p. 633-642. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae015

Schroeder, L. (2024) Human Origins: South Africa. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd Edition. Academic Press. Volume 3, p. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00027-6

Bae, C.J., Aiello, L.C., Hawks, J., Kaifu, Y., Lindal, J., Martinón-Torres, M., Ni, X., Posth, C., Radović, P., Reed, D., Schroeder, L., Schwartz, J.H., Silcox, M.T., Welker, F., Wu, X.J., Zanolli, C., & Roksandic, M. (2023) Moving away from "the Muddle in the Middle" toward solving the Chibanian puzzle. Evolutionary Anthropology. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22011

Schroeder, L., & Ackermann, R.R. (2023) Moving beyond the adaptationist paradigm for human evolution, and why it matters. Journal of Human Evolution, 174, 103296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103296

Friesen, S.E., Knigge, R.P., Jashashvili, T., Harcourt‐Smith, W.E., Schoeninger, M.J., & Tocheri, M.W. (2022) Shape variation in the talus and medial cuneiform of chimpanzees and bonobos. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24571

Komza, K., Viola, T. B., Netten, T., & Schroeder, L. (2022) Patterns of morphological integration in the hominid midfoot. Journal of Human Evolution 170: 103231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103231

Schroeder, L., Elton, S. & Ackermann, R.R. (2022) Skull variation in Afro-Eurasian monkeys results from both adaptive and non-adaptive evolutionary processes. Scientific Reports, 12(1), pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16734-x

Li, M.F., Nagendran, L., Schroeder, L. & Samson, D.R. (2022) The activity patterns of nonworking and working sled dogs. Scientific Reports, 12(1), pp.1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11635-5

Ward, D.L., Schroeder, L., Roy, J.E., Hertz, M., Uhl, A., Pomeroy, E., Stock, J.T., Copes, L., Baab, K.L., Viola, T.B. & Silcox, M.T. (2022) The influence of subsistence strategy and climate on bony labyrinth morphology in recent Homo sapiens. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 177(3): 454-470. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24465

Ward, D.L., Schroeder, L., Tinius, A., Niccoli, S., Voth, R., Lees, S.J., Silcox, M., Viola, B. and Sanzo, P. (2022) Ovariectomized Rat Model and Shape Variation in the Bony Labyrinth. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24878

Selig, K.R., Schroeder, L. and Silcox, M.T. (2021) Intraspecific variation in molar topography of the Early Eocene stem primate Microsyops latidens (Mammalia,? Primates). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p.e1995738. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1995738

Schroeder, L. (2021) Factors Shaping the Evolution of Early Homo. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0028499

Zdjelar, N., Nagendran, L., Kendall, C., Ackermann, R.R., & Schroeder, L. (2021). The hybrid skull of the eastern coyote (Canis latrans var.): nonmetric traits and craniomandibular shape. Journal of Morphology 282: 1745-1764. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21417

Tran, C.N.H., & Schroeder, L. (2021) Common evolutionary patterns in the human nasal region across a worldwide sample. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 176(3): 422-433. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24378

Ward, D.L., Schroeder, L., Pomeroy, E., Roy, J.E., Buck, L.T., Stock, J.T., Martin-Gronert, M., Ozanne, S., Silcox, M.T., & Viola, T.B. (2021) Early life malnutrition and fluctuating asymmetry in the rat bony labyrinth. The Anatomical Record 304: 2645-2660. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24601

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Larsen, R.R., Cruz, H.D., Kaplan, J., Fuentes, A., Marks, J., Pigliucci, M., Alfano, M., Smith, D.L. and Schroeder, L. (2020) More than provocative, less than scientific: A commentary on the editorial decision to publish Cofnas (2020). Philosophical Psychology: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2020.1805199

Schroeder, L. (2020) The Year in Paleoanthropology: Revolutionary Fossils, Ancient Biomolecules, and Reflections in Ethics and Decolonization. American Anthropologist 122: 306-320. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13410

Pitirri, M.K., Vermeulen, E., Komza, K., & Begun, D.R (2020) Mandibular shape variation in mainland and insular hylobatids. American Journal of Primatology 82(9): e23175. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23175

Schroeder, L. & von Cramon-Taubadel, N. (2020) Hominoid Cranial Evolution. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0028134

Ward, D., Pomeroy, E., Schroeder, L., Viola, B., Silcox, M., & Stock, J. (2020) Can bony labyrinth dimensions predict biological sex in archaeological samples? Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 31: 102354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102354

Ackermann, R.R. & Schroeder, L. (2020) The emergence of complexity and novelty in the human fossil record. In “Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility and Grace.” Eds. A. Fuentes and C. Deane-Drummond. Routledge. 29-46. 10.4324/9780429273650-4

Ackermann, R.R., Arnold, M.L., Cahill, J.A., Cortes-Ortiz, L., Evans, B., Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R, Hallgrimsson, B., Humphreys, R., Jolly, C.J., Malukiewicz, J., Nidiffer, M.D., Percival, C.J., Ritzman, T., Roos, C., Roseman, C.C., Schroeder, L., Smith, F.H., Warren, K., Wayne, R. & Zinner, D. (2019) Hybridization in human evolution: insights from other organisms. Evolutionary Anthropology 28 (4): 189-209. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21787

Komza, K., & Skinner, M.M. (2019). First metatarsal trabecular bone structure in extant hominoids and Swartkrans hominins. Journal of Human Evolution 131: 1-21.

Conaway, M., Schroeder, L. & von Cramon-Taubadel, N. (2018) Morphological integration of anatomical, developmental, and functional postcranial modules in the crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(3): 661-670.

von Cramon-Taubadel, N. & Schroeder, L. (2018) Quantitative genetics. In The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wenda Trevathan (ed). John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Schroeder, L. & von Cramon-Taubadel N. (2017) The evolution of hominoid cranial diversity: a quantitative genetic approach. Evolution 71: 2634-2649.

Schroeder, L. & Ackermann R.R. (2017) Evolutionary processes shaping evolution across the Homo lineage. Journal of Human Evolution 111: 1-17.

Schroeder, L., Scott, J.E., Garvin, H.M., Laird, M.F., Dembo, M., Radovčić, D., de Ruiter, D.J., Berger, L.R., & Ackermann, R.R. (2017) Skull diversity in the Homo lineage and the relative position of Homo naledi. Journal of Human Evolution 104: 124-135.