Chris Venditti

This study identifies genes linked to cancer risk variation across species, showing indirect effects on body size dominate cancer suppression, while direct effects increase tumour prevalence.

This study uses phylogenetic meta-analysis to show that human handedness is linked to large brain size and upright posture, distinguishing it from other primates.

CactEcoDB provides integrated ecological, trait, and phylogenetic data for over 1,000 cactus species to support comparative research on trait evolution and macroevolutionary dynamics.

The paper introduces a functional Red List Index (fRLI) to monitor functional diversity trends by weighting species by morphological uniqueness, finding higher extinction risk for locally unique species.

This study examines the co-evolution of brain size and thumb length across primates, finding a strong association and showing hominins follow the same evolutionary trend.

This study shows that global bird diversity conservation needs both threat reduction and targeted recovery programs to prevent extinctions and functional diversity loss.

The paper shows that metastatic tumors exhibit more punctuational molecular evolution compared to primary tumors, indicating different evolutionary modes in cancer progression.

This study shows that hominin brain size increase over 7 million years came from within-species changes, not between-species differences, and that this trend accelerated over time.

This study uses Bayesian phylogenetic methods to analyze hominin fossil data and finds that colder and more variable temperatures positively influence brain size evolution within species, but this effect weakens in later Homo species.