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D. Begun — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 40
Works: 156
Citations: 4,331

Most-cited papers

European Miocene Hominids and the Origin of the African Ape and Human Clade
D. Begun, Mariam C. Nargolwalla, L. Kordos
2012Evolutionary Anthropology (print)130 citations
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Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids
D. Begun
2013110 citations
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A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans
M. Böhme, N. Spassov, Jochen Fuss, Adrian Tröscher +5 more
2019Nature102 citations
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Locomotor activity influences muscle architecture and bone growth but not muscle attachment site morphology
Karyne N. Rabey, D. Green, Andrea B. Taylor, D. Begun +2 more
2014Journal of Human Evolution100 citations Open access
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Broken fingers: retesting locomotor hypotheses for fossil hominoids using fragmentary proximal phalanges and high-resolution polynomial curve fitting (HR-PCF).
A. Deane, D. Begun
2008Journal of Human Evolution93 citations
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Dryopithecins, Darwin, de Bonis, and the European origin of the African apes and human clade
D. Begun
200986 citations
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Miocene Hominids and the Origins of the African Apes and Humans
D. Begun
201084 citations
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A systematic revision of Proconsul with the description of a new genus of early Miocene hominoid.
Kieran P. McNulty, D. Begun, J. Kelley, Fredrick K. Manthi +1 more
2015Journal of Human Evolution77 citations Open access
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Frequency and timing of scaphoid-centrale fusion in hominoids.
T. L. Kivell, D. Begun
2007Journal of Human Evolution71 citations
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Evolution of locomotion in Anthropoidea: the semicircular canal evidence
T. Ryan, M. Silcox, A. Walker, Xianyun Mao +12 more
2012Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences58 citations Open access
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How to identify (as opposed to define) a homoplasy: examples from fossil and living great apes.
D. Begun
2007Journal of Human Evolution57 citations
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Comment on "Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a New Middle Miocene Great Ape from Spain"
D. Begun, C. Ward
2005Science54 citations
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Sivapithecus is east and Dryopithecus is west, and never the twain shall meet
D. Begun
200552 citations Open access
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Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe
Jochen Fuss, N. Spassov, D. Begun, M. Böhme
2017PLoS ONE48 citations Open access
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A new late Miocene ailuropodine (Giant Panda) from Rudabánya (North-central Hungary)
L. de Bonis, Juan Abella, G. Merceron, D. Begun
201746 citations
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Knuckle-walking in Sivapithecus? The combined effects of homology and homoplasy with possible implications for pongine dispersals.
D. Begun, T. L. Kivell
2011Journal of Human Evolution44 citations
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Pierolapithecus locomotor adaptations: a reply to Alba et al.'s comment on Deane and Begun (2008)
A. Deane, D. Begun
201039 citations
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New primate carpal bones from Rudabánya (late Miocene, Hungary): taxonomic and functional implications.
T. L. Kivell, D. Begun
2009Journal of Human Evolution34 citations
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Neogene hyperaridity in Arabia drove the directions of mammalian dispersal between Africa and Eurasia
M. Böhme, N. Spassov, M. Majidifard, A. Gärtner +7 more
2021Communications Earth & Environment33 citations Open access
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New approach to quantifying anatomical curvatures using high-resolution polynomial curve fitting (HR-PCF).
A. Deane, E. Kremer, D. Begun
2005American Journal of Physical Anthropology33 citations
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The Evolution of Thought: Cranial evidence of the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes
D. Begun, L. Kordos
200433 citations
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A late Miocene hominid partial pelvis from Hungary.
C. V. Ward, Ashley S. Hammond, J. Michael Plavcan, D. Begun
2019Journal of Human Evolution32 citations Open access
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Stable isotopes show resource partitioning among the early Late Miocene herbivore community at Rudabánya II: Paleoenvironmental implications for the hominoid, Rudapithecus hungaricus
L. Eastham, R. Feranec, D. Begun
201632 citations
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Dental arch restoration using tooth macrowear patterns with application to Rudapithecus hungaricus, from the late Miocene of Rudabánya, Hungary.
O. Kullmer, S. Benazzi, D. Schulz, P. Gunz +2 more
2013Journal of Human Evolution30 citations
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Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the late Miocene apes Hispanopithecus and Rudapithecus based on vestibular morphology
Alessandro Urciuoli, C. Zanolli, S. Almécija, Amélie Beaudet +6 more
2021Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America29 citations Open access
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A companion to paleoanthropology
D. Begun
201327 citations
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Dental development and life history in Anapithecus hernyaki.
Mariam C. Nargolwalla, D. Begun, M. Dean, D. Reid +1 more
2005Journal of Human Evolution27 citations Open access
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The Miocene Hominoid Radiations
D. Begun
201323 citations
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A Companion to Paleoanthropology: Begun/A Companion to Paleoanthropology
D. Begun
201322 citations
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The Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence: an integrated view
A. Russon, D. Begun
200420 citations
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A new ape from Türkiye and the radiation of late Miocene hominines
Ayla Sevim-Erol, D. Begun, A. Yavuz, Erhan Tarhan +5 more
2023Communications Biology19 citations Open access
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Reply to: Reevaluating bipedalism in Danuvius
M. Böhme, N. Spassov, J. DeSilva, D. Begun
2020Nature19 citations
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Dental development and age at death of the holotype of Anapithecus hernyaki (RUD 9) using synchrotron virtual histology.
A. Le Cabec, M. Dean, D. Begun
2017Journal of Human Evolution19 citations
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Enamel thickness and dental development in Rudapithecus hungaricus.
T. Smith, P. Tafforeau, J. Pouech, D. Begun
2019Journal of Human Evolution16 citations Open access
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Comment on "Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches"
D. Begun, B. Richmond, D. Strait
2007Science16 citations
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Suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late miocene hominoid locality of alsótelekes (Hungary)
A. Iannucci, D. Begun
2022Geobios13 citations Open access
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Skull reconstruction of the late Miocene ape Rudapithecus hungaricus from Rudabánya, Hungary.
P. Gunz, Stephanie A. Kozakowski, Simon Neubauer, A. Le Cabec +4 more
2019Journal of Human Evolution12 citations
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The Hands of Miocene Hominoids
M. Nakatsukasa, S. Almécija, D. Begun
201612 citations
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Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022).
M. Cazenave, Marta Pina, Ashley S. Hammond, M. Böhme +8 more
2024Journal of Human Evolution11 citations Open access
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Evolution of the Pliopithecoidea
D. Begun
201611 citations
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New evidence for diet and niche partitioning in Rudapithecus and Anapithecus from Rudabánya, Hungary.
A. Deane, Mariam C. Nargolwalla, L. Kordos, D. Begun
2013Journal of Human Evolution11 citations
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The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
D. Begun
201510 citations
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Buronius manfredschmidi—A new small hominid from the early late Miocene of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)
M. Böhme, D. Begun, A. C. Holmes, T. Lechner +1 more
2024PLoS ONE8 citations Open access
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A new method to quantify mandibular corpus shape in extant great apes and its potential application to the hominoid fossil record.
M. Kathleen Pitirri, D. Begun
2018American Journal of Physical Anthropology8 citations
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Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins.
M. Cazenave, T. L. Kivell, M. Pina, D. Begun +1 more
2022Journal of Human Evolution6 citations Open access
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Journal of Human Evolution
E. Delson, D. Begun
2020Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology4 citations
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Response to Benoit and Thackeray (2017): ‘A cladistic analysis of Graecopithecus’
Jochen Fuss, N. Spassov, M. Böhme, D. Begun
2018South African Journal of Science4 citations Open access
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The three “Cs” of behavioral reconstruction in fossil primates
D. Begun
20044 citations
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Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution
Robert N. Iii Spengler, F. Kienast, P. Roberts, N. Boivin +3 more
2023Biological Theory3 citations Open access
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Miklós Kretzoi, 1907–2005
D. Begun
20053 citations Open access
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