Christopher Paul Heesy
Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University
Research and Publication Archive
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Heesy CP, and Ross CF (2001) Evolution of activity patterns and chromatic vision in primates: Morphometrics, genetics and cladistics. Journal of Human Evolution 40: 111-149. ![]()
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Doran DM, Jungers WL, Sugiyama Y, Fleagle JG, and Heesy CP (2002) Multivariate and phylogenetic approaches to understanding chimpanzee and bonobo behavioral diversity. In Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, C Boesch, G Hohmann, and LF Marchant (eds.), pp. 14-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ![]()
Stumpf RM, Polk JD, Oates JF, Jungers WL, Heesy CP, Groves CP, and Fleagle JG (2003) Patterns of diversity in gorilla cranial morphology. In Gorilla Biology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, A Taylor and M Goldsmith (eds.), pp. 35-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (This file is large, please email me for the pdf)
Heesy CP, and Ross CF (2004) Mosaic evolution of activity pattern, diet, and color vision in haplorhine primates. In Anthropoid Origins: New Visions, CF Ross and RF Kay (eds.), pp. 665-698. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ![]()
Heesy CP (2004). On the relationship between orbit orientation and binocular visual field overlap in mammals. The Anatomical Record. 281A: 1104-1110. ![]()
Heesy CP (2005) Function of the mammalian postorbital bar. Journal of Morphology. 264: 363-380. ![]()
Heesy CP, Stevens NJ, and Samonds K (2006) Biogeographic origins of primate higher taxa. In Current Issues in Primate Biogeography, JG Fleagle and S Lehman (eds.), pp. 411-429. New York: Cambridge University Press. ![]()
Stevens NJ, and Heesy CP (2006) Malagasy primate origins: Phylogenies, fossils, and biogeographic reconstructions. Folia Primatologica 77(6): 419-433. ![]()
Heesy CP, Ross CF, and Demes B (2007) Oculomotor stability and the functions of the postorbital bar and septum. In Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, MJ Ravosa and M Dagosto (eds.), pp. 411-429. New York: Springer Publishers. ![]()
Ross CF, Hall MI, and Heesy CP (2007) Were basal primates nocturnal? Evidence from eye and orbit shape. In Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, MJ Ravosa and M Dagosto (eds.). New York: Springer Publishers. (Download pdf of proofs)
Heesy CP (2008) Ecomorphology of orbit orientation and the adaptive significance of binocular vision in primates and other mammals. Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 71: 54-67. 
Iwaniuk AN, Heesy CP, Hall M, Wylie (2008) Relative wulst volume is correlated with orbit orientation and binocular visual field overlap in birds. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 194(3): 267-282. 
Heesy CP (2009) Seeing in stereo: The ecology and evolution of primate binocular vision and stereopsis. Evolutionary Anthropology 18: 21-35. 
Grine FE, Smith HF, Heesy CP, and Smith EJ (in press) Affinities of Homo fossils from Swartskrans, Sterkfontein and Drimolen, South Africa: phenetic evidence from molar cusp proportions. In Origins of the Genus Homo, FE Grine (ed.)
Book Reviews
Heesy CP (2000) Can early hominid behavioral evolution be modeled on chimpanzee hunting ecology? Evolutionary Anthropology 9: 219-220. ![]()
Heesy CP (2005) Review of “The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans.” The Quarterly Review of Biology 80: 368. ![]()
Heesy CP (2005) What are four trillion neurons really good for? Evolutionary Anthropology 14: 238-239. ![]()
Heesy CP (2006) Review of “From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium.” The Quarterly Review of Biology 81: 304-305. ![]()
Heesy CP (2007) Review of "Primate and Human Evolution." The Quarterly Review of Biology 82: 183. 
Heesy CP (2008) Review of "Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135: 18-91. 
Conference Reports
Heesy CP (2000) Appetites, Asian anthropoid origins and the archontan enigma: Recent advances in evolutionary anthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology 9: 227-228. ![]()
Heesy CP, and Hill RV (2001) Paleoprimatology at the Pyramid of the Sun. Evolutionary Anthropology 10: 79-80. ![]()
Heesy CP (2001) Rethinking anthropoid origins. Evolutionary Anthropology 9: 119-121. ![]()
Kamilar J, and Heesy CP (2004) Recent progress in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 13: 168-169. ![]()
Heesy CP, and Hall MI (2004) Evolution of the special senses in primates. Evolutionary Anthropology 13: 170-171. ![]()