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Prof Alan Bilsborough

Member of the Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture

Professor in the Department of Anthropology

Human evolution, especially the functional basis for cranial diversity in early hominids and the reconstruction of evolutionary patterns
The interaction of social and biological variables in human biology, with particular reference to patterns of nutrition and disease

Bilsborough A (1999). Contingency, Patterning and Species in Hominid Evolution. In Structure and Contingency: Evolutionary Processes in Life and Human Society. JL Bintliffe London & New York. Leicester University Press. 43-101.

Bilsborough, A. & Rae, T.C. (2007). Hominoid cranial diversity and adaptation. In Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Henke, Roth & Tattersall, I. Berlin: Springer. 2: 1031-1105.
Bilsborough, A. & Thompson, J. L. (2005). The dentition of the Le Moustier 1 Neandertal. In The Neandertal Adolescent Le Moustier 1: New Aspects, New Results. Ullrich, H. Berlin.: Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin - Preussicher Kulturbesitz. 157-186.

Bilsborough, A. (2005). Homo erectus revisited: aspects of affinity and diversity in a pleistocene hominin species. Anthropologie 43(2-3): 129-158.
Bilsborough, A. (2002). Craniofacial diversity in early Homo and the affinities of the Sterkfontein Valley specimens. Human Evolution 17(1-2): 21-32.
Bilsborough A (2000). Chronology, Variability and Evolution in Homo erectus. Variability and Evolution 8: 5-30.
Bilsborough A (2000). Phenetic Patterning and Species Sorting in Early African Homo. Anthropologie XXXVIII: 151-163.
Bilsborough A & Thompson JL (1997). Current state of the Le Moustier 1 Skull. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 29: 17-38.

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