Paul Morse, PhD

Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

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Languages
English, Spanish
Department
Cell & Developmental Biology

Publications

  • Kay RF, Kirk EC, Vizcaino SF, Bargo MS, Allen KL, Olson S, Morse PE. The Fossil Record of Anthropoid Brain Evolution. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2025 Jul;187(3):e70081. PubMed PMID: 40590320
  • Selig KR, Morse PE, Pampush JD, Kay RF. Dental Wear and Molar Pulp Volume Reduction in Macaca fascicularis. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2025 Mar;186(3):e70035. PubMed PMID: 40139985
  • Kirk EC, Allen KL, Morse PE, Olson SV, Kay RF. Evolution of Nervous Systems. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 2025. 3.04 - Quantifying primate brain evolution: Evidence from virtual endocasts; p. 34-64.
  • Korasidis VA, Wing SL, Morse PE, Vitek NS, Bloch JI. Evidence for increased animal pollination during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleobiology. 2025 Aug;51(3):574-587.
  • Perry JMG, Vizcaíno SF, Bargo MS, Toledo N, Sanders K, Dickinson E, Morse PE, Kay RF. New skeleton and associated skull of Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891 (Primates, Platyrrhini), from the Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina). Palaeontol Electron. 2025;28:a21.
  • Pampush JD, Morse PE, Kay RF. Dental sculpting and compensatory shearing crests demonstrated in a WEAR series of Presbytis rubicunda (Cercopithecoidea, Colobidae) with dental topography analysis. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2024 Sep;185(1):e24953. PubMed PMID: 38751320
  • Morse PE, Pampush JD, Kay RF. Dental topography of the Oligocene anthropoids Aegyptopithecus zeuxis and Apidium phiomense: Paleodietary insights from analysis of wear series. J Hum Evol. 2023 Jul;180:103387. PubMed PMID: 37245335
  • White CL, Bloch JI, Morse PE, Silcox MT. Virtual endocast of late Paleocene Niptomomys (Microsyopidae, Euarchonta) and early primate brain evolution. J Hum Evol. 2023 Feb;175:103303. PubMed PMID: 36608392
  • Stock SR, Morse PE, Stock MK, James KC, Natanson LJ, Chen H, Shevchenko PD, Maxey ER, Antipova OA, Park JS. Microstructure and energy dispersive diffraction reconstruction of 3D patterns of crystallographic texture in a shark centrum. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2022 May;9(3):031504. PubMed PMID: 35127969
  • Morse PE, Stock MK, James KC, Natanson LJ, Stock SR. Shark centra microanatomy and mineral density variation studied with laboratory microComputed Tomography. J Struct Biol. 2022 Mar;214(1):107831. PubMed PMID: 34999244
  • Morse PE. Fossil primate research at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Evol Anthropol. 2022 Jan;31(1):9-11. PubMed PMID: 34994493
  • Pampush JD, Morse PE, Fuselier EJ, Skinner MM, Kay RF. Sign-oriented Dirichlet normal energy: Aligning dental topography and dental function in the R-package molaR. J Mammal Evol. 2022 Jun 14;29:713–732.
  • Arnal M, Kay RF, Valdivia LA, Salenbien W, Morse PE, Borths MR, Williams BA, Riddle C, Martínez J.-N., Gonzales LA. New Early Miocene hystricognath rodents (Caviomorpha) from the Madre de Dios River in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Paleontology.
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