Levi Raskin

Manuscripts in review
Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; Šešelj, Maja; Stroustrup, Sofia; Li, Jacky; and Huelsenbeck, John (in revision) Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. Currently available on bioRxiv as a preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.31.685754

Chatar, Narimane; Vankelst, Melvin; Pérez Ramos, Alejandro, Pollock, Tahlia; Tamagnini, Davide; Michaud, Margo; Raskin, Levi Y.; Tseng, Z. Jack (in revision). Novel experimental insights into the functional evolution of mammalian carnassials. Science.

Preprints
Raskin, Levi Y.; Šešelj, Maja; and Bitarello, Bárbara D. (2024). Assessing phylogenetic information content and redundancy in hominin craniodental traits. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.31.616875

Conference Presentations
Raskin, Levi Y.; Šešelj, Maja; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; Lim, Wonseop; Li, Jacky; O’Hara, Mackie C.; and Huelsenbeck, John. A hierarchical Bayesian framework for simultaneously inferring evolutionary and intraspecific covariances applied to great ape dental development. Evolution. Cleveland, OH.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Lim, Wonseop; Li, Jacky; Tseng, Jack; Šešelj, Maja; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; and Huelsenbeck, John (2026). Phylogenetic simulation estimates recovered morphological variation in the hominin fossil record. Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, CO.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; O’Hara, Mackie C.; and Huelsenbeck, John (2026). Principal Components Analysis is inaccurate for Plio-Pleistocene hominin systematics. American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Denver, CO.

Chatar, Narimane; Vankelst, Melvin; Pérez Ramos, Alejandro; Pollock, Tahlia I.; Tamagnini, Davide; Michaud, Margot; Raskin, Levi Y.; Tseng, Z. Jack (2026). From innovation to constraint: experimental insights into the evolution of mammalian teeth. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Chatar, Narimane; Vankelst, Melvin; Pérez Ramos, Alejandro; Pollock, Tahlia I.; Tamagnini, Davide; Michaud, Margot; Raskin, Levi Y.; Tseng, Z. Jack (2025). Supertooth: Slicing, crushing, and the limits of carnassial design. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; O’Hara, Mackie C.; and Huelsenbeck, John (2025). Principal Components Analysis is inaccurate for Plio-Pleistocene hominin systematics. European Society for the study of Human Evolution. Paris, France.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; O’Hara, Mackie C.; and Šešelj, Maja (2025). Hidden state prediction suggests perikymata are unlikely to differentiate Middle Pleistocene hominins. American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Baltimore, MD.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Šešelj, Maja; and Bitarello, Bárbara D. (2024). The effect of trait redundancy on parsimony-inferred tree topologies from a hominin character matrix. Paleoanthropology Society. Los Angeles, CA.

Raskin, Levi Y.; O’Hara, Mackie C.; Erskine, Amy I.; and Šešelj, Maja. (2024). Moving great ape osteobiographies forward: digitally linking macro and micro data and media at the individual level. American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Los Angeles, CA.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Reeves, Jonathan S.; Douglass, Matthew J.; and Braun, David R. (2023). Least-effort knapping as a baseline to study social transmission in the Early Stone Age. Society for American Archaeology. Portland, Oregon.

Reeves, Jonathan S.; Raskin, Levi Y.; Douglass, Matthew J.; and Braun, David R. (2023). Establishing baselines for stone tool variation across the Early Pleistocene: A least effort approach. Society for American Archaeology. Portland, Oregon.