2024 Falk, D. Evolution of the mind’s eye: A possible explanation for why early hominins produced geometric figures before representational ones. In: Study of Palaeoart of the World: A Quest for Understanding the Evolution of Human Constructs of Reality, Part 2, Giriraj Kumar, editor. New Delhi, Research India Press:101-116.
2016 Falk, D. Baby-the-trendsetter: Three evo-devo trends and their expression in Asperger syndrome. In Trevathan, W. and Rosenberg, K. (Eds.), Costly and Cute: Helpless Infants and Human Evolution, Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, p. 109-132.
2015 Falk, D. Evolution of the Primate Brain (revision of 2007 chapter). In: Henke W., Tattersall I. (Ed.) Handbook of Paleoanthropology: SpringerReference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_135072 2013-06-04 14:37:08 UTC
2012 Falk, D. Hominin paleoneurology: Where are we now? In M. Hofman & D. Falk (Eds.), Primate Brain Evolution: From Neuron to Behavior, Progress in Brain Research, Elsevier, Vol. 195:255-272.
2012 Falk, D. Language, handedness and primate brains (1980 American Anthropologist article). Reprinted In G. W. Fitch & W. T. Fitch (Eds.), Language Evolution, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, in press.
2011 Falk, D. The role of mothers and infants in prelinguistic evolution. In M. Tallerman & K. R. Gibson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 318–324.
2011 Falk, D. Hominin brain evolution, 1925-2007: An emerging overview. In S. C. Reynolds & A. Gallagher (Eds), African Genesis: Perspectives On Hominid Evolution, Cambridge University Press, p. 145–162.
2010 Falk, D. Evolution of the brain, cognition, and speech. In C. Larsen (Ed.), A Companion to Biological Anthropology,Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, p. 258-271.
2009 Falk, D. Brain evolution: The radiator theory. In L. R. Squire (Ed-in-Chief), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience,Oxford: Academic Press, 2:347-352.
2007 Falk, D., Hildebolt, C. G., Smith, K. E. & Prior, F. LB1′s virtual endocast: Implications for hominin brain evolution. In Proceedings from the International Seminar on Southeast Asia Paleoanthropology, Yogyakarta, Java; July 23-29:37-46.
2007 Hildebolt, C. F., Smith, K. E., Falk, D., Whiting, B. R., Tincher, C. M. & Prior, F. Protocols and applicatons of CT to the study of fossil hominins. In Proceedings from the International Seminar on Southeast Asia Paleoanthropology,Yogyakarta, Java; July 23-29:169-181.
2007 Falk, D. Evolution of the primate brain. In W. Henke & I.Tattersall (Eds), Handbook of Palaeoanthropology Vol. 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins, Springer-Verlag, 1133-1162.
Translated into Belorussian, April, 2011
Translated into German
2007 Falk, D. Constraints on brain size: the radiator hypothesis. In J. H. Kaas (Ed), The Evolution of Nervous Systems, Academic Press,Oxford, pages 347-354.
2006 Falk, D. & N. Seguchi. Professor C. Loring Brace: Bringing Physical Anthropology (“Kicking and Screaming”) Into the 21st Century. In D. Brereton (Ed), Retrospectives on Eight Michigan Anthropologists, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Vol 16:175-211, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2005 Falk, D. L’Australopitheque gracile etait-il musicien? In B. Cyrulnik (Ed), Homo sapiens L’odyssée de l’espèce, Tallandier, pages 197-203 (reprinted from La Recherche, Novembre).
2001 Falk, D. The evolution of sex differences in primate brains. In D. Falk & Kathleen Gibson (Eds), Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex, Cambridge University of Press, pages 98-111.
The skull and endocast of Hobbit, courtesy of Kirk Smith, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.
2001 Schafer, K., Seidler, H., Bookstein, F. L., Prossinger, H., Falk, D. & Conroy, G. Exo- and endocranial morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and modern humans. In D. Falk and K. Gibson (Eds), Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex, Cambridge University Press, pages 290-304.
2000 Falk, D. Hominid brain evolution and the origins of music. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, S. Brown (Eds), The Origins of Music. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press, pages 197-216.
1997 Falk, D. Brain evolution in females: An answer to Mr. Lovejoy. In L. Hager (Ed), Women in Human Evolution, London, Routledge, pages 114-136.
1995 Falk, D. Brain evolution in dolphins, humans and other mammals: Implications for ETI. In G. S. Shostak (Ed), Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: 1993 Bioastronomy Symposium,San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 74:52-62.
1993 Falk, D. Gender differences in visuospatial skills: Implications for hominid evolution. In K. Gibson and T. Ingold (Eds), Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution, Cambridge University Press, pages 216-229.
1991 Falk, D. Breech birth of the genus Homo: Why bipedalism preceded the increase in brain size. Origine(s) de la bipedie chez les hominides (Cahiers de Paleoanthropologie), Editions du CNRS, Paris, pages 259-266.
1991 Falk, D. Implications of the evolution of writing for the origin of language: Can a paleoneurologist find happiness in the Neolithic? In J. Wind et al. (eds): Language Origins: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pages 245-251.
1991 Falk, D. 3.5 million years of hominid brain evolution. In W. Calvin and K. Graubard (eds): Evolution of Nervous Systems. Seminars in the Neurosciences 3:409-416.
1988 Falk, D. Enlarged occipital/marginal sinuses and emissary foramina: their significance in hominid evolution. In F. Grine (Ed.): The Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines.Chicago: Aldine, pp.85-96.
1986 Falk, D. Primate endocasts and their significance for primate evolution. In D. Swindler (Ed.): Systematics, Evolution and Anatomy.New York:Alan Liss, pp. 477-490.
1982 Falk, D. A reconsideration of the endocast of Proconsul africanus. In R. L. Ciochon and R. Corruccini (Eds.): New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry.New York: Plenum Publishing Company, pp. 239-248.
1982 Falk, D. Mapping fossil endocasts. In E. Armstrong and D. Falk (Eds.): Primate Brain Evolution: Methods and Concepts, New York: Plenum Publishing Company, pp. 217-226.
1982 Falk, D. Primate neuroanatomy, 1930-1980: an evolutionary perspective. In F. Spencer (Ed.): A History of American Physical Anthropology, 1930-1980. New York: Academic Press, pp. 75-103.
1981-1982 Falk, D. Is sociobiology neophrenology? In A. Leeds and V. Dusek (Eds.): Philosophical Forum, an edited volume, 13:109-118.
1980 Falk, D. Comparative study of the endocranial casts of New and Old World monkeys. In R. L. Ciochon and B. Chiarelli (Eds.): Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift. New York: Plenum Publishing Company, pp. 275-292.
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