Publications

Guillermo Bravo Morante, Barbara Fischer, Miguel Cecilio Botella López, Markus Bastir (2021). The outline of the pubic symphyseal surface is sexually dimorphic and changes with age in humans . Journal of Anthropological Sciences.

Philipp Mitteroecker, Nicole D. S. Grunstra, Ekaterina Stansfield, Lukas Waltenberger, Barbara Fischer (2021). Did population differences in human pelvic form evolve by drift or selection? . Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d’Anthropologie de Paris 33(1):10-25.

Guillermo Bravo Morante, Fred Bookstein, Barbara Fischer, Katrin Schaefer, Inmaculada Alemán Aguilera, Miguel Cecilio Botella López (2021). Correlation of the human pubic symphysis surface with age‐at‐death: a novel quantitative method based on a bandpass filter . International Journal of Legal Medicine.

Sabine Tebbich, Timo Schwemhofer, Barbara Fischer, Courtney Pike (2021). Darwin’s finches habitually anoint their feathers with leaves of the endemic tree Psidium galapageium during the non-breeding season. Ethology.

Barbara Fischer, Nicole D. S. Grunstra, Eva Zaffarini, Philipp Mitteroecker (2021). Sex differences in the pelvis did not evolve de novo in modern humans. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5:625-630.

Wolfgang Umek, Barbara Fischer (2020). We Should Abandon “Race” as a Biological Category in Biomedical Research. Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery 26(12):719-720.

Nicole DS Grunstra, Frank E Zachos, Anna Nele Herdina, Barbara Fischer, Mihaela Pavličev, Philipp Mitteroecker (2019). Humans as inverted bats: A comparative approach to the obstetric conundrum. American Journal of Human Biology 31:e23227.

Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker (2017). Allometry and sexual dimorphism in the human pelvis. The Anatomical Record 300:698-705.

Philipp Mitteroecker, Simon Huttegger, Barbara Fischer, Mihaela Pavlicev (2017). Reply to Grossman: The role of natural selection for the increase of Caesarean section rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:14680-14685.

Philipp Mitteroecker, Simon Huttegger, Barbara Fischer, Mihaela Pavlicev (2016). Cliff-edge model of obstetric selection in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:14680-14685.

Philipp Mitteroecker, Barbara Fischer (2016). Adult pelvic shape change is an evolutionary side effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:5655-5660.

Truls Hansson, Barbara Fischer, Anna Black Mazzarella, Kjetil Lysne Voje, Asbjorn Vollestad (2016). Lateral plate number in low‐plated threespine stickleback - a study of plasticity and heritability. Ecology and Evolution 6: 3154-3160.

Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker (2016). Reply to Underdown and Oppenheimer: Roles of selection, plasticity, and genetics in the integration of human pelvis shape and head size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:5655-5660.

Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker (2015). Covariation between human pelvis shape, stature, and head size alleviates the obstetric dilemma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:5655-5660.

Anna Black Mazzarella, Kjetil Lysne Voje, Truls Hansson, Annette Taugbol, Barbara Fischer (2015). Strong and parallel salinity‐induced phenotypic plasticity in one generation of threespine stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 667-677.

Barbara Fischer, Sander Van Doorn, Ulf Dieckmann, Barbara Taborsky (2014). The Evolution of Age-Dependent Plasticity. The American Naturalist 183: 108-125.

Barbara Fischer, Ulf Dieckmann, Barbara Taborsky (2011). When to store energy in a stochastic environment. Evolution 65: 1221-1232.

Barbara Fischer, Barbara Taborsky, Hanna Kokko (2011). How to balance the offspring quality–quantity tradeoff when environmental cues are unreliable. Oikos 120: 258-270.

Alexander Kotrschal, Barbara Fischer, Barbara Taborsky (2011). A noninvasive method to determine fat content in small fish based on swim bladder size estimation. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology 315:408-415.

Barbara Fischer, Barbara Taborsky, Ulf Dieckmann (2009). Unexpected Patterns of Plastic Energy Allocation in Stochastic Environments. The American Naturalist 173:E108-E120.