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Assistant Professor
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13 h-index
33 pubs
793 cited
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Amelia Villaseñor's research focuses on paleontology and paleoanthropology, with an emphasis on fossil mammals, ancient ecosystems, and human evolution. Her work investigates the ecological impacts of extinction events, such as the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction, and how these events have shaped mammalian communities in North America. Villaseñor also studies the environmental contexts of early hominin behavior, examining evidence from sites like the Turkana Basin in Kenya. Her publications address topics including biotic homogenization, the development of early tool technologies, and the challenges of integrating specimen-level trait data for interdisciplinary research. She has published 33 papers, with an h-index of 13 and 784 citations. Villaseñor collaborates with Lucas K. Delezene, with whom she shares two publications.
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- h-index: 13
- Publications: 33
- Citations: 793
Selected Publications
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Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya (2025)
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‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time (2025)
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Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin (2024)
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Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation (2024)
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The Zambia Rift Valley research project: Exploring human evolution at the crossroads of Africa (2023)
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Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin (2023)
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Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community (2022)
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A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data (2022)
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Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas (2022)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
National Museum of Natural History (US)
3 shared publications
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
S. Kathleen Lyons
3 shared publications
- Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- THE MISSING PIECES: CHANGES IN THE ECOLOGICAL NICHE OF A MAMMAL COMMUNITY IN NORTH AMERICA OVER THE LATE QUATERNARY
Felisa A. Smith
University of New Mexico (US)
3 shared publications
- Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community
- ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
- THE MISSING PIECES: CHANGES IN THE ECOLOGICAL NICHE OF A MAMMAL COMMUNITY IN NORTH AMERICA OVER THE LATE QUATERNARY
Rahab N. Kinyanjui
National Museums of Kenya (KE)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
René Bobe
University of Oxford (GB)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
Eldert L. Advokaat
Utrecht University (NL)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
Ashley S. Hammond
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
Dan V. Palcu
Utrecht University (NL)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
Mark J. Sier
Leiden University (NL)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
David R. Braun
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
3 shared publications
- Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin
- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
- Hominin Technology Flourished amid Pliocene Environmental Variance in the Turkana Basin
Meghan A. Balk
National Ecological Observatory Network (US)
2 shared publications
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data
Nicholas J. Gotelli
University of Vermont (US)
2 shared publications
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Cindy V. Looy
2 shared publications
- Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
- ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Emma A. Elliott Smith
2 shared publications
- Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community
- THE MISSING PIECES: CHANGES IN THE ECOLOGICAL NICHE OF A MAMMAL COMMUNITY IN NORTH AMERICA OVER THE LATE QUATERNARY
Catalina P. Tomé
Indiana State Museum (US)
2 shared publications
- Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community
- ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
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