About me
I am a theoretical biologist and evolutionary biologist with strong interests in human and animal evolution, evolutionary medicine, biological anthropology, statistics, and the philosophy of science.
I have studied the development and evolution of human and primate anatomy, including the individual variation and perception of human faces, with medical applications to orthodontics. I am particularly interested in the interaction of developmental, environmental, and evolutionary processes. Another current research focus is on human childbirth: an evolutionary conundrum involving biological, environmental, and sociocultural dynamics.
I am fascinated by the analysis of complex biological data, including morphological, behavioral, and genetic data. I have contributed to modern morphometrics, the statistical analysis of biological form, as well as to multivariate biostatistics and quantitative genetics.
I am teaching morphometrics, statistics, theoretical and evolutionary biology at the University of Vienna and the University of Graz, and I am a directorial board member of the KLI Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research.
Publication list
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2013
Coquerelle, M., Carlos Prados-Frutos, J., Rojo, R., Mitteroecker, P., & Bastir, M. (2013). Short Faces, Big Tongues: Developmental Origin of the Human Chin. PLoS ONE, 8(11), Article 81287. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081287
Domjanic, J., Fieder, M., Seidler, H., & Mitteroecker, P. (2013). Geometric morphometric footprint analysis of young women. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 6, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-6-27
Gunz, P., & Mitteroecker, P. (2013). Semilandmarks: A method for quantifying curves and surfaces. Hystrix: The Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-24.1-6292
Mitteroecker, P., Gunz, P., Windhager, S., & Schäfer, K. (2013). A brief review of shape, form, and allometry in geometric morphometrics, with applications to human facial morphology. Hystrix: The Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 24(1), 59-66. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-24.1-6369
2012
Bookstein, F., Weber, G., & Mitteröcker, P. (2012). Digital South African Fossils: Morphological studies using reference based reconstruction and electronic preparation: Perspectives on Hominin Evolution. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, 298-316.
Handschuh, S., & Mitteröcker, P. (2012). Evolution - The Extended Synthesis. A research proposal persuasive enough for the majority of evolutionary biologists? Human Ethology Bulletin, 27(1-2), 1-4.
Martinez-Abadias, N., Mitteröcker, P., Parsons, T. E., Esparza, M., Sjovold, T., Rolian, C., Richtsmeier, J. T., & Hallgrimsson, B. (2012). The Developmental Basis of Quantitative Craniofacial Variation in Humans and Mice. Evolutionary Biology, 39(4, SI), 554-567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-012-9210-7
Mitteröcker, P., & Freudenthaler, J. W. (2012). Geometrische Morphometrie – ein Paradigmenwechsel in der Kieferorthopädie. Informationen aus Orthodontie & Kieferorthopädie, 44, 17-22.
Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., Neubauer, S., & Müller, G. (2012). How to Explore Morphological Integration in Human Evolution and Development? Evolutionary Biology, 39(4), 536-553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-012-9178-3
Posnien, N., Hopfen, C., Hilbrant, M., Ramos-Womack, M., Murat, S., Schoenauer, A., Herbert, S. L., Nunes, M. D. S., Arif, S., Breuker, C. J., Schlötterer, C., Mitteröcker, P., & McGregor, A. P. (2012). Evolution of Eye Morphology and Rhodopsin Expression in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup. PLoS ONE, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037346
2011
Coquerelle, M., Bookstein, F., Braga, J., Halazonetis, D. J., Weber, G., & Mitteröcker, P. (2011). Sexual Dimorphism of the Human Mandible and Its Association With Dental Development. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 145(2), 192-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21485
Frelat, M. A., & Mitteröcker, P. (2011). Postnatal Ontogeny of Tibia and Femur Form in Two Human Populations: A Multivariate Morphometric Analysis. American Journal of Human Biology, 23(6), 796-804. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.21217
Huttegger, S., & Mitteröcker, P. (2011). Invariance and Meaningfulness in Phenotype spaces. Evolutionary Biology, 38(3), 335-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-011-9123-x
Mitteröcker, P., & Bookstein, F. (2011). Linear Discrimination, Ordination, and the Visualization of Selection Gradients in Modern Morphometrics. Evolutionary Biology, 38(1), 100-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-011-9109-8
Pellegrini, A., Teschler-Nicola, M., Bookstein, F. L., & Mitteroecker, P. (2011). Craniofacial morphology in Austrian Early Bronze Age populations reflects sex-specific migration patterns. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 89, 139-151. https://doi.org/10.4436/jass.89013
2010
Herler, J., Kerschbaumer, M., Mitteröcker, P., Postl, L., & Sturmbauer, C. (2010). Sexual dimorphism and population divergence in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish genus Tropheus. Frontiers in Zoology, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-7-4
2009
Gunz, P., Bookstein, F. L., Mitteroecker, P., Stadlmayr, A., Seidler, H., & Weber, G. (2009). Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided population structure and a complex out-of-Africa scenario. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 106(15), 6094-6098. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808160106
Gunz, P., Mitteröcker, P., Neubauer, S., Weber, G., & Bookstein, F. (2009). Principles for the virtual reconstruction of hominin crania. Journal of Human Evolution, 57(1), 48-62.
Mitteröcker, P., & Gunz, P. (2009). Advances in geometric morphometrics. Evolutionary Biology, 36(2), 235-247.
Mitteröcker, P., & Bookstein, F. (2009). Examining modularity via partial correlations: A rejoinder to a comment by Paul Magwene. Systematic Biology, 58(3), 346-348.
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