Joanna Baker

This study identifies genes linked to cancer risk variation across species, showing indirect effects on body size dominate cancer suppression, while direct effects increase tumour prevalence.

This study examines the co-evolution of brain size and thumb length across primates, finding a strong association and showing hominins follow the same evolutionary trend.

This study shows that global bird diversity conservation needs both threat reduction and targeted recovery programs to prevent extinctions and functional diversity loss.

This study shows that hominin brain size increase over 7 million years came from within-species changes, not between-species differences, and that this trend accelerated over time.

This study uses Bayesian phylogenetic methods to analyze hominin fossil data and finds that colder and more variable temperatures positively influence brain size evolution within species, but this effect weakens in later Homo species.