2026

Foister, T.I.F. & Wilson, O.E. (2026, Preprint). Anthropocentrism as a source of sampling bias in the fossil record. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.04.709576 

2024

Foister, T. I. F., Liu, L., Saarinen, J., Tallavaara, M., Zhang, H., Žliobaitė, I. (2024). Quantifying heterogeneity of hominin environments in and out of Africa using herbivore dental traits. Quat. Sci. Rev., 337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108791 

2023

Foister, T. I. F., Žliobaitė, I., Wilson, O. E., Fortelius, M., Tallavaara, M. (2023). Homo heterogenus: variability in early Pleistocene Homo environments. Evol. Anth.,1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22005  
-- among the top 10 most-cited papers published by Evolutionary Anthropology in 2023.

2021

Foister, T. I. F., & Felice, R. N. (2021). Ecometric modelling of limb proportions and vegetation index among non-human primates in South America. Hystrix It. J. Mamm., 32(1) 
55–59. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00374-2020

Research Focus  

• Human niche
• Human-nature relationship
• Anthropogenic ecosystem changes
• Gene-culture coevolution
• Anthropocentrism and reflexivity in research  

Projects

• ‘Revealing the Origins of the Human Niche’ - modelling the human niche in the Middle Pleistocene (UoT, Human Origins Cluster)
• ‘Technoniche’ - modelling the ecological niche associated with stone tool cultures (UoH).
   

Fieldwork 

• Nihewan Basin, China (October 2023)
• Fuente Nueva 3, Orce, Spain (June 2023)
• ‘Ubeidiya, Israel (November 2022)
• Els Casots, Spain (June 2022)

Peer Review

• Nature Communications
• Quaternary Science Reviews