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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2009
Mitteröcker, P., & Bookstein, F. (2009). The Ontogenetic Trajectory of the Phenotypic Covariance Matrix, with Examples from Craniofacial Shape in Rats and Humans. Evolution, 63(3), 727-737.
Schäfer, K., Bookstein, F., Fink, B., & Mitteröcker, P. (2009). Psychomorphometry: Towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Schäfer, K., Mitteröcker, P., Fink, B., & Bookstein, F. (2009). Psychomorphomospace -- from biology to perception and back. Biological Theory: integrating development, evolution & cognition, 4(1), 68-106.
2008
Mitteröcker, P., & Bookstein, F. (2008). The conceptual and statistical relationship between modularity and morphological integration. Systematic Biology, 56(5), 818-836.
Mitteröcker, P., & Bookstein, F. (2008). The evolutionary role of modularity and integration in the hominoid cranium. Evolution, 62(4), 943-958.
2007
Gunz, P., Harvati, K., Mitteröcker, P., Bookstein, F., Weber, G., & Hublin, J.-J. (2007). Was sexual dimorphism in early homo erectus s.l. as large as in gorilla? American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2006
Bookstein, F., Mitteröcker, P., Manfreda, E., Mitteröcker, P., & Schäfer, K. (2006). Functional morphology of the first cervical vertebra in humans and nonhuman primates. The Anatomical Record. Part B: The New Anatomist, 289(5), 184-194. http://www.scopus.com/scopus/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33748948905&partner=40&rel=R5.0.4
Bulygina, E., Mitteröcker, P., & Aiello, L. (2006). Ontogeny of facial dimorphism and patterns of individual development within one human population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Schäfer, K., Lauc, T., Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., & Bookstein, F. (2006). Dental arch asymmetry in an isolated Adriatic community. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 129(1), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20224
Schäfer, K., Fink, B., Grammer, K., Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., & Bookstein, F. (2006). Female appearance: Facial and bodily attractiveness as shape. Psychology Science, 48(2), 187-204.
Weber, G., Gunz, P., Mitteroecker, P., Stadlmayr, A., Bookstein, F., & Seidler, H. (2006). External geometry of Mladec neurocrania compared with anatomically modern humans and Neandertals. In Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate (pp. 453-471). Springer.
2005
Fink, B., Grammer, K., Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., Schäfer, K., & Bookstein, F. (2005). Second to fourth digit ratio and face shape. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 272(1576), 1995-2001. http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/f21gly2pa7fpm2xu/
Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., & Bookstein, F. (2005). Heterochrony and geometric morphometrics: A comparison of cranial growth in Pan paniscus versus Pan troglodytes. Evolution & Development, 7(3), 244-258. http://www.scopus.com/scopus/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-18944393442&partner=40&rel=R5.0.4
Schäfer, K., Fink, B., Mitteröcker, P., & Bookstein, F. (2005). Visualizing facial shape regression upon 2nd to 4th digit ratio and testosterone. Collegium Antropologicum, 29(2), 415-419.
2004
Bookstein, F., Slice, D. E., Gunz, P., & Mitteröcker, P. (2004). Anthropology takes control of morphometrics. Collegium Antropologicum, 28(SUPPL. 2), 121-132.
Grammer, K., Fink, B., Oberzaucher, E., Atzmüller, M., Blantar, I., & Mitteröcker, P. (2004). The representation of self reported affect in body posture and body posture simulation. Collegium Antropologicum, 28(SUPPL. 2), 159-173.
Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., Bernhard, M., Schäfer, K., & Bookstein, F. (2004). Comparison of cranial ontogenetic trajectories among great apes and humans. Journal of Human Evolution, 46(6), 679-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.03.006
Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., Weber, G., & Bookstein, F. (2004). Regional dissociated heterochrony in multivariate analysis. Annals of Anatomy, 186(5-6), 463-470. http://www.scopus.com/scopus/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-11244313016&partner=40&rel=R5.0.4
Schäfer, K., Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., Bernhard, M., & Bookstein, F. (2004). Craniofacial sexual dimorphism patterns and allometry among extant hominids. Annals of Anatomy, 186(5-6), 471-478. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0940-9602(04)80086-4
2003
Bookstein, F., Gunz, P., Mitteröcker, P., Prossinger, H., Schäfer, K., & Seidler, H. (2003). Cranial integration in Homo reassessed: Morphometrics of the mid-sagittal plane in ontogeny and evolution. Journal of Human Evolution, 44, 167-187.
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