Dr. Jaap Saers

Independent Junior Research Group Lead Biomechanics

Dr. Saers is sitting at a table with a grey surface in front of large wooden cupboards with glass displays showing bones and hominine skulls. He is holding a large bone fragment and inspects it closely, in front of him on a red cloth is a fragmented hominine skull. He is a white man with brown and grey hair and beard stubbles, wearing a dark grey shirt.

Universität Tübingen
Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS

Rümelinstraße 23
D-72072 Tübingen

R 515
jacobus-petrus-paulus.saersspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Research

“I am a paleoanthropologist interested in the evolution and development of locomotion in modern humans, our living primate cousins, and our fossil relatives. Much of my work involves analysing and interpreting variation in the size, shape, and density of bones using high resolution 3D imaging techniques.”

Publikationen

Selected publications

Saers, J.P.P., Gordon, A.D., Ryan, T.M., Stock, J.T. (2022). Trabecular bone ontogeny tracks neural development and life history among humans and non-human primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of sciences.,119, (49), e2208772119.

Nishimura, T., Tokuda, I., Miyachi, S., Dunn, J.C., Ishimura, K., Kaneko, A., Kinoshita, Y., Koda, H., Saers, J.P.P., Imai, H., Matsuda, T., Larsen, O., Jürgens, U., Hirabayashi, H., Kojima, S., Fitch, T. (2022). Evolutionary loss of complexity in the human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for human speech. Science. 377, (6607), 760-763.

Saers, J.P.P., DeMars, L.J., Stephens, N.B., Jashashvili, T., Carlson, K.J., Gordon, A.D., Ryan, T.M., Stock J.T. (2021) Combinations of trabecular and cortical bone properties distinguish various loading modalities between athletes and controls. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 174, (3), 434-450.

Website

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