WALKER Axelle
Postdoctoral researcher CENIEH, Burgos
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Axelle Walker is a postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary biology. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Poitiers (France), where she studied the evolution of catarrhine primate dentition through a morpho-functional approach combining 3D dental topography, 3D geometric morphometrics, experimental analyses, and modeling. Her research focuses on the relationships between tooth shape and function, particularly how dental morphology influences food fragmentation during mastication within an evolutionary and adaptive framework.
After a first postdoctoral project on the functional diversity of rodents, she is now investigating the evolution of dental morphology in primates, using both extant and fossil data, notably from the African Plio-Pleistocene and the Ethiopian fossil record, including the Shungura Formation.
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Publications emblématiques
Thiery G., Francisco A., Louail M., Berlioz E., Blondel C., Brunetière N., Ramdarshan A., Walker A. Ec., Merceron G. 2024 – Introducing ’trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis – Peer Community In Paleontology, 4, e90. – DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.467
Walker A. EC, Guy F., Salles C., Thiery G. et Lazzari V. 2022 – Assessment of comminution capacity related to molar intercuspation in catarrhines using a chewing simulator – Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 34 (2) – https://doi.org/10.4000/bmsap.10052
Margot Louail, Stéphane Ferchaud, Antoine Souron, Axelle E.C. Walker, Gildas Merceron 2021 – Dental microwear textures differ in pigs with overall similar diets but fed with different seeds – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology : Vol. 572, 110415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110415