K. R. Caspar

This study investigates whether domestication correlates with conjunctival depigmentation in mammals and finds no significant difference between domesticated and wild species.

The paper investigates perioral glands in African mole-rats, showing they produce complex odor signals involved in social communication through histology, behavior, and metabolomics.

This study analyzes hand preference data across 38 primate species to test evolutionary hypotheses about handedness, finding that human right-handedness is extreme and that hand preference strength varies with ecology and phylogeny.

This study compares ocular pigmentation in hominoids, finding no support for the cooperative eye hypothesis and suggesting gradual genetic changes rather than adaptive communication functions.

This study shows that enucleating mole-rats disrupts their magnetic compass orientation, supporting the hypothesis that their eyes are the magnetoreceptors.