PALLAS Laurent
Associated member
Main research question
My work focuses on the postcranial anatomy of extant and extinct primates and particularly on the interplay between positional behaviors, morphological data and ecological data.
Topics of study
I notably work on fossil monkeys from the Shungura formation in order to infer their ecological and adaptive dynamics in a context of changing climatic factors.
Contact
- Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Kyoto University, Japan
- pallas[at]anthro.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Iconic publications
Pallas L., Daver G., Merceron M., Boisserie J.-R. 2023 – The anatomy of the hindlimb of Theropithecus brumpti (Cercopithecidae, Papionini): Morphofunctional implications – Journal of Human Evolution 178, 103333 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103333
Daver G., Guy F., Mackaye H.T., Likius A., Boisserie J.-R., Moussa A., Pallas L., Vignaud P., Nekoulnang D. C. 2022 – Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad. Nature, 2022 – DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04901-z
Pallas, L., Daver, G., Mackaye, H. T., Likius, A., Vignaud, P., & Guy, F. (2019). A window into the early evolutionary history of Cercopithecidae: Late Miocene evidence from Chad, Central Africa. Journal of human evolution, 132, 61-79.