2024 Falk, D. Don’t ignore cognitive evolution during the three million years that preceded the archaeological record of material culture! Invited commentary on target article by Duncan Noel Edward Stibbard-Hawkes: Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in press.
2019 Falk, D. Early Rock Art of the American West: Move Over Banksy! In: E. Dissanayake, D. Falk & F. Martini: “The Geometric Enigma. A Book Symposium.” Invited commentary on book by Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake. Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico 12 (No 1): 85-98 [DF: 87-91].
2018 Falk, D., Einstein’s brain: lost and found, Book Review of Finding Einstein’s Brain by Fred Lepore https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/brain/awy168/5036367
2018 Falk, D. Is the clock ticking toward doomsday? SAPIENS, January 9th. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/violence-steven-pinker-doomsday/
(Excerpted in Pacific Standard News, January 10th; Real Clear Science, January 10th; Undark Magazine, January 16th.)
2018 Falk, D. Dart, Raymond Arthur. In: Wenda Trevathan (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. New York: Wiley, in press.
2018 Falk, D. Darwin, Charles R. In: Wenda Trevathan (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. New York: Wiley, in press.
2015 Falk, D., Forgotten bodies too? Book Review of Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital, Brain 138(4):1121-1125. http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/17/brain.awv021
2013 Falk, D. How the human got her words. www.thespanner.net, issue 0008, Spannerworks, London.
2013 Falk, D., Lepore, F. & Noe, A. Examining photographs of Einstein’s brain is not phrenology! Invited post, Oxford University Press’s blog
2013 Falk, D. Is happiness adaptive? BeingHuman.org
2011 Falk, D. Preface to The Human Condition by Robert G. Bednarik, Springer.
2006 Falk, D. Our mother tongue. Invited New York Times Op-Ed contribution (May 14, 2006).
2006 Falk, D. Remarks at presentation of Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award to C. Loring Brace. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 131:580-581.
2004 Falk, D. Prelinguistic evolution in hominin mothers and babies: For cryin’ out loud! Commentary on target article by Soltis: The signal functions of early infant crying, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:461-462.
2002 Falk, D. Brain size evolution. Encyclopedia of Evolution, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press: 120-123 (invited).
2000 Falk, D. Careers in science offer women an unusual bonus: immortality. Nature 407:833.
2000 Falk, D. L’Australopitheque gracile etait-il musicien? La Recherche, Novembre, 78-81.
2000 Falk, D. Evolution des Gehirns. In Katalog zur Ausstellung Am Anfang War Das Bild, United Exhibits Group,Koln, p. 20-21.
1999 Falk, D. and J. Redmond Reply to M. D. Matheson. Discover Magazine, September, p. 16.
1998 Falk, D. Hominid brain evolution: Looks can be deceiving. Science 280:1714; (Appeared in French in Le Figaro).
1998 Falk, D. No Surprises? Response to T. White. Science 281:45.
1995 Falk, D. What I did last summer. New England Archaeological News (Armidale,New South Wales) 4:3-4.
1995 Falk, D. Commentary on “The expensive-tissue hypothesis” by L. Aiello and P. Wheeler. Curr. Anth. 36:212.
1993 Falk, D. A good brain is hard to cool. Natural History, August, p. 65.
1993 Falk, D. and B. Dudek. Mosaic evolution of the neocortex. Invited commentary in Behav. Br. Sci., 16:701-702.
1992 Falk, D. Women in science: letter to the editor, Science 256:1612.
1992 Falk, D. Letter to the editor, American Scientist, January-February 1992:5-6.
1992 Falk, D. Women are bipeds, too. Newsweek Magazine, September 21.
1991 Falk, D. Author’s response to Continuing Commentary on Brain evolution in Homo: The “radiator” theory. More on the radiator. Behav. Br. Sci. 14:529-530.
1989 Falk, D. Primate tool use: But what about their brains? Invited commentary in Behav. Br. Sci., 12:595-596.
1989 Falk, D. Comment on the archaelology of perception: traces of depiction and language, by I. Davidson and W. Noble, Curr. Anthropol. 30:141-142.
1988 Falk, D. Allometry cannot be ignored in brain evolution studies. Invited commentary in Behav. Br. Sci. 11:92-93.
1986 Falk, D. Hominid evolution (letter). Science 234:11.
1985 Falk, D. Early man in Kenya: first signs of language. Kenya Past and Present 17:24-25.
1985 Falk, D. Le cerveau des hominides. La Recherche, November, 1985: 1400 (also appears in Spanish).
1984 Falk, D. The petrified brain. Natural History, September issue: 36-39.
1984 Falk, D. Implications of the parcellation theory for paleoneurology: invited commentary on evolution and ontogeny of neural circuits by S. Ebbesson. Behav. Brain Sci. 7:338.
1981 Falk, D. and E. Armstrong. Results of the Symposium on methods and concepts in primate brain evolution, Congress of the International Primatological Society. Italy, 1980. In B. Chiarelli and R. Corruccini (Eds.): Advanced Views in Primate Biology. Springer Verlag, pp. 206-211.
1980 Falk, D. CA* comment on Sapienization and speech by G. Krantz. Curr. Anthrop. 21:780.
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