John Rowan

University of Cambridge — United Kingdom

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

23h-index2.1kcitations115works3.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolution and Paleontology Studies(59), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(49), Primate Behavior and Ecology(24), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(23), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(15)

Publications113 total

New femoral evidence from the Afar reveal the early evolution of habitual squatting behaviors in the genus Theropithecus
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2025Open Access
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
Nature·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Dental microwear of bovids from the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in the lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology·2025
Palaeoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar, Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Journal of Human Evolution·2025Open Access
The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya
Journal of Human Evolution·2025· 4 cited
Reconciling the environmental implications of late Quaternary faunal and pollen records in southern Africa
Quaternary Science Advances·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Australia's recently established predators restore complexity to food webs simplified by extinction
Current Biology·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context
Journal of Human Evolution·2024· 4 cited
Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Dart and the Taung juvenile: making sense of a century-old record of hominin evolution in Africa
Biology Letters·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
29 million years of diverse mammalian enamel proteomes from Turkana in the East African Rift System
2024Open Access
Environmental context shapes the relationship between grass consumption and body size in African herbivore communities
Ecology and Evolution·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Late Cenozoic Faunal and Ecological Change in Africa
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
MIOCENE LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND FAUNAL EVOLUTION IN KENYA’S TURKANA BASIN: A REPORT FROM THE TURKANA MIOCENE PROJECT
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2024
EXPLORING POST-DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES IN LATE MIOCENE PALEOSOLS AT LOTHAGAM, TURKANA BASIN, KENYA
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2023
The NOW Database of Fossil Mammals
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
NEOGENE ECOSYSTEMS AND MAMMAL DIETS IN EAST AFRICA
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2023
Collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene
Science·2022· 103 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

J. Tyler Faith(15), Kaye E. Reed(13), Andrew Du(12), Christopher J. Campisano(9), Erick Lundgren(7), Owen Middleton(7), Jens‐Christian Svenning(7), Joshua R. Robinson(7), Christopher J. Sandom(6), Ignacio A. Lazagabaster(6), Simon D. Schowanek(5), Jean‐Renaud Boisserie(5), William H. Kimbel(4), Daniel Ramp(4), Matt Davis(4), Lydia Beaudrot(4), Faysal Bibi(4), Jason M. Kamilar(4), W. Andrew Barr(4), Erin DiMaggio(3)