Dr Louise Humphrey
Research Leader
ORCID: 0000-0003-3595-0543
Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Vertebrates and Anthropology Palaeobiology
Group: Other
Specialisms: Human Origins, Dental Anthropology, Bioarchaeology
Summary
My research interests cover human origins, bioarchaeology and dental anthropology. I am particularly interested in infancy and childhood in past populations, including growth and development and reconstructing aspects of individual life history.
Qualifications
Degrees
- PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- BSc, University College London, United Kingdom
Academic
- Researcher in Human Origins, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 1997 - ongoing
Highlighted publications
- Swan KR, Ives R, Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2020) Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross‐sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173, 80 - 95. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24080
- Humphrey LT, De Groote I, Morales J, Barton N, Collcutt S, Bronk Ramsey C, Bouzouggar A (2014) Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 954 - 959. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318176111
- Humphrey LT (2010) Weaning behaviour in human evolution. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 21, 453 - 461. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.003
- Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE, Penn M (2008) Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 6834 - 6839. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711513105
- King T, Humphrey LT, Hillson S (2005) Linear enamel hypoplasias as indicators of systemic physiological stress: Evidence from two known age‐at‐death and sex populations from postmedieval London. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128, 547 - 559. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20232
- Humphrey LT (1998) Growth patterns in the modern human skeleton. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105, 57 - 72. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199801)105:1<57::aid-ajpa6>3.0.co;2-a
- Morales J, Carrión Marco Y, Cooper JH, Turner E, Freyne A, Hogue J, Ziani I, Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey LT Late pleistocene exploitation of Ephedra in a funerary context in Morocco. Scientific Reports 14, doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-77785-w
Highlighted publications
- Swan KR, Ives R, Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2020) Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross‐sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173, 80 - 95. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24080
- Humphrey LT, De Groote I, Morales J, Barton N, Collcutt S, Bronk Ramsey C, Bouzouggar A (2014) Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 954 - 959. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318176111
- Humphrey LT (2010) Weaning behaviour in human evolution. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 21, 453 - 461. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.003
- Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE, Penn M (2008) Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 6834 - 6839. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711513105
- King T, Humphrey LT, Hillson S (2005) Linear enamel hypoplasias as indicators of systemic physiological stress: Evidence from two known age‐at‐death and sex populations from postmedieval London. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128, 547 - 559. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20232
- Humphrey LT (1998) Growth patterns in the modern human skeleton. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105, 57 - 72. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199801)105:1<57::aid-ajpa6>3.0.co;2-a
- Morales J, Carrión Marco Y, Cooper JH, Turner E, Freyne A, Hogue J, Ziani I, Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey LT Late pleistocene exploitation of Ephedra in a funerary context in Morocco. Scientific Reports 14, doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-77785-w