Susan Antón

About

Susan Antón is a faculty member associated with the Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies (LHES) at NYU. Her research focuses on hominin skeletal development and evolution, supporting both student and faculty research in these areas. She is involved with the use of standard osteometric equipment and advanced tools such as the NextEngine Microscribe 3DX (3D digitizer) for her work. Interested students are encouraged to contact her for more information about research opportunities. Her contributions support the broader mission of LHES to advance understanding of human evolutionary history through detailed analysis of skeletal remains and related studies.

Research topics

• Biology
• Neuroscience
• Psychology
• Genetics
• Evolutionary biology
• Medicine
• Zoology
• Cognitive psychology
• Social psychology
• Pathology

Selected publications

• Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques

  Microbiome · 2021 · 95 citations

  BACKGROUND: An individual's microbiome changes over the course of its lifetime, especially during infancy, and again in old age. Confounding factors such as diet and healthcare make it difficult to disentangle the interactions between age, health, and microbial changes in humans. Animal models present an excellent opportunity to study age- and sex-linked variation in the microbiome, but captivity is known to influence animal microbial abundance and composition, while studies of free-ranging anim…

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• Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society

  Science Advances · 2022 · 62 citations

  Reproduction and survival in most primate species reflects management of both competitive and cooperative relationships. Here, we investigated the links between neuroanatomy and sociality in free-ranging rhesus macaques. In adults, the number of social partners predicted the volume of the mid-superior temporal sulcus and ventral-dysgranular insula, implicated in social decision-making and empathy, respectively. We found no link between brain structure and other key social variables such as socia…

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• Rare dental trait provides morphological evidence of archaic introgression in Asian fossil record

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019-07-08 · 53 citations

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  The recently described Denisovan hemimandible from Xiahe, China [F. Chen et al., (2019) Nature 569, 409–412], possesses an unusual dental feature: a 3-rooted lower second molar. A survey of the clinical and bioarchaeological literature demonstrates that the 3-rooted lower molar is rare (less than 3.5% occurrence) in non-Asian Homo sapiens . In contrast, its presence in Asian-derived populations can exceed 40% in China and the New World. It has long been thought that the prevalence of 3-rooted lo…

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• Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment

  Nature Neuroscience · 2022 · 34 citations

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• Making meaning from fragmentary fossils: Early Homo in the Early to early Middle Pleistocene

  Journal of Human Evolution · 2023-04-06 · 27 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Peter T. Ellison

  Case Western Reserve University

  51 shared

• Trudy R. Turner

  John Wiley & Sons (United States)

  49 shared

• Lyle W. Konigsberg

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  46 shared

• Daniel J. Wescott

  Texas State University

  46 shared

• Leslie C. Aiello

  The University of Tokyo

  44 shared

• J. Josh Snodgrass

  University of Oregon

  42 shared

• Lisa Sattenspiel

  University of Missouri

  41 shared

• Thomas Manbeck

  Hudson Institute

  41 shared

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