Le Maitre A, Grunstra N, Bravo Morante G, Pfaff C, Wimmer W, Mitteroecker P. Humans, mammals like any other? The case of the bony labyrinth. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (BMSAP). 2025 Dec 16;38(S):S32. doi: 10.4000/15hie

Hansen J, Grunstra N, Fitch WTS, Kitchener AC, Gumpenberger M, Lesch R. The domestication of the wolf larynx—testing the neural crest connection. Royal Society Open Science. 2025;12(7):250430. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250430

Grunstra N, Hollinetz F, Bravo Morante G, Zachos F, Pfaff C, Winkler V et al. Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear. Nature Communications. 2024 Sept 16;15(1):7869. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3125661/v1, 10.1038/S41467-024-52180-1, 10.1038/s41467-024-52180-1, 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3125661/v1, 10.1038/S41467-024-52180-1

Grunstra NDS, Betti L, Fischer B, Haeusler M, Pavlicev M, Stansfield E et al. There is an obstetrical dilemma: Misconceptions about the evolution of human childbirth and pelvic form. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 2023 Aug;181(4):535-544. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24802

Grunstra N, Louys J, Elton S. Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2023 Jun 15;310:108121. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108121

Mitteroecker P, Grunstra NDS, Stansfield E, Waltenberger L, Fischer B. The roles of natural selection and drift in the evolution of modern human pelvic form. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 2022 Apr;177:126-127.

Stansfield E, Fischer B, Grunstra N, Villa Pouca M, Mitteroecker P. The evolution of pelvic canal shape and rotational birth in humans. BMC Biology. 2021 Oct 11;19(1):224. doi: 10.1186/s12915-021-01150-w

Haeusler M, Grunstra N, Martin RD, Krenn V, Fornai C, Webb NM. The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there’s life in the old dog yet. Biological Reviews. 2021 Oct;96(5):2031–2057. doi: 10.1111/brv.12744

Grunstra N, Bartsch S, Le Maitre A, Mitteroecker P. Detecting Phylogenetic Signal and Adaptation in Papionin Cranial Shape by Decomposing Variation at Different Spatial Scales. Systematic Biology. 2021 Jul;70(4):694–706 . doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa093

Stansfield E, Kumar K, Mitteroecker P, Grunstra N. Biomechanical trade-offs in the pelvic floor constrain the evolution of the human birth canal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2021 Apr 20;118(16):e2022159118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2022159118

Grunstra NDS, Kumar K, Mitteroecker P, Stansfield E. Trade-offs in the pelvic floor constrain human pelvic evolution: A finite element approach. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2021 Mar;174:42-42.

Cazzolla Gatti R, Menéndez L, Laciny A, Bobadilla Rodrígeuz H, Bravo Morante G, Carmen E et al. Diversity lost: COVID-19 as a phenomenon of the total environment. Science of the Total Environment. 2021 Feb 20;756:144014. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144014

Mitteroecker P, Grunstra NDS, Stansfield E, Waltenberger L, Fischer B. Did population differences in human pelvic form evolve by drift or selection? Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris. 2021;33(1):11-26. doi: 10.4000/BMSAP.7460