All Stories

  1. The relative roles of maternal survival and inter-personal violence as selection pressures on the persistence of Neanderthal hypercoagulability alleles in modern Europeans

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Simon John Underdown, Ellen Ham

  2. Human biology and ancient DNA: exploring disease, domestication and movement

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  3. The Role of aDNA in Understanding the Coevolutionary Patterns of Human Sexually Transmitted Infections

    Article • Genes, June 2018, MDPI AG

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  4. Human biology of migration

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  5. Migrating microbes: what pathogens can tell us about population movements and human evolution

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  6. Network analysis of the hominin origin of Herpes Simplex virus 2 from fossil data

    Article • February 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  7. Neanderthal genomics suggests a pleistocene time frame for the first epidemiologic transition

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2016, Wiley

    Prof Simon John Underdown, Dr Charlotte Jane Houldcroft

  8. Bellwood, Peter (ed.). The global prehistory of human migration. 432 pp., maps, figs, bibliogrs. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. £29.99 (paper)

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, January 2016, Wiley

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  9. Do patterns of covariation between human pelvis shape, stature, and head size alleviate the obstetric dilemma?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  10. Evolution of the brain-frame

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  11. Neanderthal Genomics Suggests a Pleistocene Time Frame for the First Epidemiologic Transition

    Article • March 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Charlotte Jane Houldcroft, Prof Simon John Underdown

  12. Introductory readings in anthropologyby Callan, Hilary, Brian Street and Simon Underdown

    Article • Social Anthropology, August 2014, Wiley

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  13. Human Evolution Lite

    Article • BioScience, March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  14. A potential role for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies in Neanderthal extinction

    Article • Medical Hypotheses, January 2008, Elsevier

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  15. How the word 'hominid' evolved to include hominin

    Article • Nature, December 2006, Nature

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  16. Some Observations on ‘The Neanderthals: a Social Synthesis’ with a response from Davies & Underdown

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, September 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Simon John Underdown

  17. The Neanderthals: a Social Synthesis

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Simon John Underdown