Nathaniel J. Dominy

Selected Publications

• 2021-25

• Dominy NJ (2025). Dark matters: a new film celebrates the subterranean. Science 388:1141. (doi: 10.1126/science.ady5476)

• Rosien JE, Fannin LD, Yeakel JD, Malaivijitnond S, Dominy NJ, Tan A (2025). Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns. eLife 13:RP98520. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.98520)

• Fannin LD, Thayer ZM, Dominy NJ (2024). Commemorating the monkey bars, catalyst of debate at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and public health. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 12:143-155. (doi: 10.1093/emph/eoae017)

• Shapiro MD, Dominy NJ, Kardon G, Letsou A (2024) Science at Sundance 2024. Science 383:1052-1056. (doi: 10.1126/science.ado5075)

• Hobaiter C, Dominy NJ (2024). Eve of extinction. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8:846-847. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02359-y)

• Dominy NJ, Hobaiter C, Harris JM (2023). Reindeer and the quest for Scottish enlichenment. i-Perception 14(6):1-6. (doi: 10.1177/20416695231218520)

• Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GE, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin ID, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD (2023). Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12:e88028. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.88028)

• Grathwol F, Roos C, Zinner D, Hume B, Porcier SM, Berthet D, Cuisin J, Merker S, Ottoni C, Van Neer W, Dominy NJ, Kopp GH (2023). Adulis and the transshipment of baboons during classical antiquity. eLife 12:e87513. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.87513)

• Fannin LD, Joy MS, Dominy NJ, McGraw WS, DeSilva JM (2023). Downclimbing and the evolution of ape forelimb morphologies. Royal Society Open Science 10:230145. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.230145)

• Pinto SL, Janiak MC, Dutyschaever G, Barros MAS, Guadamuz Chavarria A, Martin MP, Tuh FYY, Valverde CS, Sims LM, Barclay RMR, Wells K, Dominy NJ, Pessoa DMA, Carrigan MA, Melin AD (2023). Diet and the evolution of ADH7 across seven orders of mammals. Royal Society Open Science 10:230451. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.230451)

• Veilleux CC, Garrett EC, Pajic P, Saitou M, Ochieng J, Dagsaan LD, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Gokcumen O, Melin AD (2023). Human subsistence and signatures of selection on human chemosensory genes. Communications Biology 6:683. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05047-y)

• Dominy NJ (2023) Das rätsel der heiligen pavien. Translated by Karin Schlott. Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2023(5):72-79.

• Venkataraman V, Barry AE, Dominy NJ, Kardon G (2023) Science at Sundance 2023. Science 379:874-878. (doi: 10.1126/science.adg9997)

• Fairbanks MK, Fannin LD, Dominy NJ (2023). Decolonizing the ourang-outang. International Journal of Primatology 44:307-318. (doi: 10.1007/s10764-022-00345-4)

• Callahan CW, Dominy NJ, DeSilva JM, Mankin JS (2023). Global warming, home runs, and the future of America's pastime. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104:E1006-E1016. (doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0235.1)

• Dominy NJ, Harris JM (2022). Adaptive optics in the Arctic? A commentary on Fosbury and Jeffery. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20221528. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1528)

• Fannin LD, Laugier EJ, van Casteren A, Greenwood SL, Dominy NJ (2022). Differentiating siliceous particulate matter in the diets of mammalian herbivores. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13:2198-2208. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13934)

• Veilleux CC, Dominy NJ, Melin AD (2022). The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited. Evolutionary Anthropology 31:281-301. (doi: 10.1002/evan.21967)

• DePasquale A, Hogan JD, Guadamuz Araya C, Dominy NJ, Melin AD (2022). Aeroscapes and the sensory ecology of olfaction in a tropical dry forest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:849281. (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.849281)

• Dominy NJ (2021). Secrets of the sacred baboons. Scientific American 325(5):46-53. (doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican1121-46)

• Fannin LD, Singels E, Esler KJ, Dominy NJ (2021). Grit and consequence. Evolutionary Anthropology 30:375-384. (doi: 10.1002/evan.21927)

• Dominy NJ, Fannin LD (2021). The sluggard has no locusts: from persistent pest to irresistible icon. People and Nature 3:542-549. (doi: 10.1002/pan3.10198)

• McNutt EJ, Hatala KG, Miller C, Adams J, Casana J, Deane AS, Dominy NJ, Fabian K, Fannin LD, Gaughan S, Gill SV, Gurtu J, Gustafson E, Hill AC, Johnson C, Kallindo S, Kilham B, Kilham P, Kim E, Liutkus-Pierce C, Maley B, Prabhat A, Reader J, Rubin S, Thompson NE, Thornburg R, Williams-Hatala EM, Zimmer B, Musiba CM, DeSilva JM (2021). Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania. Nature 600:468-471. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04187-7)

• Fannin LD, Yeakel JD, Venkataraman VV, Seyoum C, Geraads D, Fashing PJ, Nguyen N, Fox-Dobbs K, Dominy NJ (2021). Carbon and strontium isotope ratios shed new light on the paleobiology and collapse of Theropithecus, a primate experiment in graminivory. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 572:110393. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110393)

• Everett MC, Elliott MC, Gaynor D, Hill AC, Syeda SM, Casana J, Zipfel B, DeSilva JM, Dominy NJ (2021). Mechanical loading of primate fingers on vertical rock surfaces. South African Journal of Science 117:10409. (doi: 10.17159/sajs.2021/10409)