Publications
Preprints are listed separately at the end. † denotes corresponding author. A full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.
2026
Gardner J, Püschel TA†, White S, Sakamoto M, Venditti C (2026). Competing models of hominin body size evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(27). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2521732123
Püschel TA†, Hurwitz RM, Venditti C (2026). Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness. PLOS Biology, 24(4), e3003771. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003771
Hammond R, Püschel TA† (2026). Multisite analysis of infant corpse carrying in Pan reveals maternal attachment and death context as explanations of carrying duration. Biology Letters, 22(9). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0371
Hurwitz RM, Almeida-Warren K, Carvalho S, Püschel TA† (2026). Impacted bones: can extant primates help identify tool use in early hominins? Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 35(3). DOI: 10.1002/evan.70042
Arias-Martorell J, Figueroa-Torrejón A, Püschel TA, Raventós-Izard G, Urciuoli A, Gamarra J, Almécija S, Alba DM (2026). The distal humerus of Pliobates cataloniae (Primates: Pliopithecoidea): functional and locomotor inferences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 33(3). DOI: 10.1007/s10914-026-09828-0
Casado-Doménech N, Macias-Seijas M, Püschel TA, Alba DM, Arias-Martorell J (2026). The talus of Dryopithecus fontani and Hispanopithecus laietanus: functional implications and locomotor repertoire of European Miocene great apes. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70043
Labarca R, Ugalde PC, Capriles JM, Gayo EM, Püschel TA, et al. (2026). Diversified human dietary strategies and settlement patterns in the core of the Atacama Desert during the late Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 77, 101742. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101742
Geraads D, Bobe R, Püschel TA, Ward CV, Plavcan JM, Manthi FK (2026). The Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Lomekwi faunas, West Turkana, Kenya: systematics, paleoecology, and biochronology. Quaternary International, 754, 110078. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110078
2025
Avaria-Llautureo J, Püschel TA†, Meade A, Baker J, Nicholson SL, Venditti C (2025). The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(32). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423833122
2024
Püschel TA†, Nicholson SL, Baker J, Barton RA, Venditti C (2024). Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(49). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2409542121
2023
Bobe R, Carvalho S, Püschel TA, et al. (2023). The palaeoenvironments of the East African Rift and the context of early human evolution and dispersal. iScience, 26(9), 107644. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644
Núñez-Cortés R, Cruz-Montecinos C, Torres-Castro R, Tapia C, Püschel TA, Pérez-Alenda S (2023). Pain coping strategies are associated with clinical outcomes following carpal tunnel release: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2023.07.003
2022
Püschel HP, Bertrand OC, O'Reilly JE, Bobe R, Püschel TA† (2022). Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01792-1
Morley J, Bucchi A, Lorenzo C, Püschel TA† (2022). Characterizing the body morphology of the first metacarpal in the Homininae using 3D geometric morphometrics. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(4), 748–759. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24473
Arias-Martorell J, Püschel TA, Almécija S, Alba DM (2022). Wrist modularity in extant hominoids and fossil hominins: evolutionary and functional implications. Journal of Human Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103022
Núñez-Cortés R, Cruz-Montecinos C, Torres-Castro R, Tapia C, Püschel TA, Pérez-Alenda S (2022). Effects of cognitive and mental health factors on outcomes following carpal tunnel release: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.10.026
2021
Püschel HP, Bertrand OC, O'Reilly JE, Bobe R, Püschel TA† (2021). Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01431-1
Coatham SJ, Sellers WI, Püschel TA† (2021). Convex hull estimation of mammalian body segment parameters. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210836
2020
Marcé-Nogué J, Püschel TA, Daasch A, Kaiser TM (2020). Broad-scale morpho-functional traits of the mandible suggest no hard food adaptation in the hominin lineage. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63739-5
Püschel TA†, Marcé-Nogué J, Chamberlain AT, Yoxall A, Sellers WI (2020). The biomechanical importance of the scaphoid-centrale fusion during simulated knuckle-walking and its implications for human locomotor evolution. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60590-6
Püschel TA†, Marcé-Nogué J, Gladman J, Patel BA, Almécija S, Sellers WI (2020). Getting its feet on the ground: elucidating Paralouatta's semi-terrestriality using the virtual morpho-functional toolbox. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 79. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00079
Püschel TA†, Nikita E, Friess M, Manríquez G (2020). Morphological consequences of artificial cranial deformation: modularity and integration. PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227362
Bucchi A, Püschel TA, Lorenzo C, Marcé-Nogué J (2020). Finite element analysis of the proximal phalanx of the thumb in Hominoidea during simulated stone tool use. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 19(2). DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a2
2018
Püschel TA†, Marcé-Nogué J, Gladman JT, Bobe R, Sellers WI (2018). Inferring locomotor behaviours in Miocene New World monkeys using finite element analysis, geometric morphometrics and machine-learning classification techniques applied to talar morphology. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 15(146), 20180520. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0520
Püschel TA†, Marcé-Nogué J, Kaiser TM, Brocklehurst RJ, Sellers WI (2018). Analyzing the sclerocarpy adaptations of the Pitheciidae mandible. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22759
Benítez HA, Lemic D, Püschel TA, Virić Gašparić H, et al. (2018). Fluctuating asymmetry indicates levels of disturbance between agricultural productions: an example in Croatian populations of Pterostichus melas melas. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 276, 42–49. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.07.003
2017
Püschel TA†, Gladman JT, Bobe R, Sellers WI (2017). The evolution of the platyrrhine talus: a comparative analysis of the phenetic affinities of the Miocene platyrrhines with their modern relatives. Journal of Human Evolution, 111, 179–201. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.015
Marcé-Nogué J, Püschel TA, Kaiser TM (2017). A biomechanical approach to understand the ecomorphological relationship between primate mandibles and diet. Scientific Reports, 7, 8364. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08161-0
Marcé-Nogué J, de Esteban-Trivigno S, Püschel TA, Fortuny J (2017). The intervals method: a new approach to analyse finite element outputs using multivariate statistics. PeerJ, 5, e3793. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3793
2015–2016
Püschel TA†, Sellers WI (2016). Standing on the shoulders of apes: analyzing the form and function of the hominoid scapula using geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22882
Lemic D, Benítez HA, Püschel TA, Virić Gašparić H, Šatvar M, Bažok R (2016). Ecological morphology of the sugar beet weevil Croatian populations: evaluating the role of environmental conditions on body shape. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 260, 25–32. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2015.11.003
Bucchi A, Püschel TA, Manríquez G (2016). Artificial cranial modification in San Pedro de Atacama and the Loa Basin: a quantitative approach to its role as a marker of social identity. Revista Chilena de Antropología, 34(2), 19–30.
Benítez HA, Vargas HA, Püschel TA (2015). Left–right asymmetry and morphological consequences of a host shift in the oligophagous Neotropical moth Macaria mirthae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of Insect Conservation. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-015-9779-0
Püschel TA†, Espejo J, Sanzana MJ, Benítez HA (2014). Analysing the floral elements of the lost tree of Easter Island: a morphometric comparison between the remaining ex-situ lines of the endemic extinct species Sophora toromiro. PLOS ONE, 9(12), e115548. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115548
Preprints
Püschel TA†, Hurwitz RM, Venditti C (2025). Phylogenetic meta-analysis implicates large brains and our unusual posture in human handedness. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.17.660131
Hammond R, Püschel TA† (2026). Infant corpse carrying in Pan reflects maternal attachment and death context. openRxiv. DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.28.702208