Emma Mbua

2.1k total citations
28 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Emma Mbua is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emma Mbua has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 19 papers in Anthropology and 17 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Emma Mbua's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (17 papers). Emma Mbua is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (17 papers). Emma Mbua collaborates with scholars based in Kenya, United States and Germany. Emma Mbua's co-authors include Günter Bräuer, Fredrick K. Manthi, Thure E. Cerling, Kevin T. Uno, Meave G. Leakey, Frederick E. Grine, Francis Kirera, Matt Sponheimer, Brian G. Richmond and John Harris and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Geological Society London Special Publications.

In The Last Decade

Emma Mbua

27 papers receiving 984 citations

Peers

Emma Mbua
Denné Reed United States
Dominique Gommery France
Franck Guy France
Louise Leakey United States
Caley M. Orr United States
Hassane Taïsso Mackaye France
Reiko T. Kono Japan
Kevin G. Hatala United States
Briana Pobiner United States
Stephen R. Frost United States
Denné Reed United States
Emma Mbua
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All Works

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Richmond, Brian G., Michael R. Lague, Habiba Chirchir, et al.. (2020). The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 141. 102727–102727. 17 indexed citations
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Lague, Michael R., Habiba Chirchir, David J. Green, et al.. (2018). Cross-sectional properties of the humeral diaphysis of Paranthropus boisei: Implications for upper limb function. Journal of Human Evolution. 126. 51–70. 13 indexed citations
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Lague, Michael R., Habiba Chirchir, David J. Green, et al.. (2018). Humeral anatomy of the KNM-ER 47000 upper limb skeleton from Ileret, Kenya: Implications for taxonomic identification. Journal of Human Evolution. 126. 24–38. 9 indexed citations
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Green, David J., Habiba Chirchir, Emma Mbua, et al.. (2018). Scapular anatomy of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 125. 181–192. 10 indexed citations
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Mbua, Emma, Sōichirō Kusaka, Yutaka Kunimatsu, et al.. (2016). Kantis: A new Australopithecus site on the shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 94. 28–44. 20 indexed citations
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Kunimatsu, Yutaka, Masato Nakatsukasa, Yoshihiro Sawada, et al.. (2016). A second hominoid species in the early Late Miocene fauna of Nakali (Kenya). Anthropological Science. 124(2). 75–83. 12 indexed citations
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McNulty, Kieran P., David R. Begun, Jay Kelley, Fredrick K. Manthi, & Emma Mbua. (2015). A systematic revision of Proconsul with the description of a new genus of early Miocene hominoid. Journal of Human Evolution. 84. 42–61. 50 indexed citations
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Tsubamoto, Takehisa, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Hideo Nakaya, et al.. (2015). New specimens of a primitive hippopotamus, <i>Kenyapotamus coryndonae</i>, from the Upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 121(4). 153–159. 9 indexed citations
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Saarinen, Juha, Aleksis Karme, Thure E. Cerling, et al.. (2015). A New Tooth Wear–Based Dietary Analysis Method for Proboscidea (Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35(3). e918546–e918546. 45 indexed citations
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Cerling, Thure E., Fredrick K. Manthi, Emma Mbua, et al.. (2013). Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(26). 10501–10506. 157 indexed citations
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Cerling, Thure E., Emma Mbua, Francis Kirera, et al.. (2011). Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(23). 9337–9341. 168 indexed citations
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Bobe, René, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Meave G. Leakey, & Emma Mbua. (2011). The Turkana Database: an archive of vertebrate evolution in eastern Africa. 5 indexed citations
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Cerling, Thure E., Emma Mbua, Francis Kirera, et al.. (2011). Reply to Godfrey et al.: Outside the box. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 2 indexed citations
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Nakatsukasa, Masato, Emma Mbua, Yoshihiro Sawada, et al.. (2010). Earliest colobine skeletons from Nakali, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143(3). 365–382. 35 indexed citations
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Olejniczak, Anthony J., David R. Begun, Emma Mbua, & Jean‐Jacques Hublin. (2009). Phyletic Affinities of Samburupithecus Kiptalami: A Late Miocene Proconsulid. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 5 indexed citations
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Bennett, Matthew R., John Harris, Brian G. Richmond, et al.. (2009). Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya. Science. 323(5918). 1197–1201. 173 indexed citations
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Njau, Jackson K., Emma Mbua, Zeresenay Alemseged, & Briana Pobiner. (2009). Second conference of the East African association for paleoanthropology and paleontology: Fifty years after discovery of Zinjanthropus. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 18(6). 235–236. 2 indexed citations
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Bräuer, Günter, Christoph Groden, Flora Gröning, et al.. (2004). Virtual study of the endocranial morphology of the matrix‐filled cranium from Eliye Springs, Kenya. The Anatomical Record Part A Discoveries in Molecular Cellular and Evolutionary Biology. 276A(2). 113–133. 21 indexed citations
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Bräuer, Günter, Christoph Groden, G. Delling, et al.. (2003). Pathological alterations in the archaic Homo sapiens cranium from Eliye Springs, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 120(2). 200–204. 23 indexed citations
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Bräuer, Günter & Emma Mbua. (1992). Homo erectus features used in cladistics and their variability in Asian and African hominids. Journal of Human Evolution. 22(2). 79–108. 88 indexed citations

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