Levi Raskin

Published articles
Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Barbara D.; Seselj, Maja; Stroustrup, Sofia; Li, Jacky; and Huelsenbeck, John
(2026). Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70306

Manuscripts in review
Chatar, Narimane; Vankelst, Melvin; Perez 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.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Seselj, Maja; Huelsenbeck, John; Lim, Wonseop; Li, Jacky; O Hara, Mackie C.; and
Bitarello, Barbara D. (in review). A hierarchical Bayesian framework accommodates intraspecific and interspecific variation in multivariate traits. Currently available on bioRxiv as a preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.28.728593v1

Jacky Kaiyuan Li, Wonseop Lim, Finn Margaret Callahan, Levi Yoder Raskin, Maya Lemmon-Kishi,
Rasmus Nielsen (in review). STEM-LM: Spatio-Temporal Ecological Modeling via Masked
Language Model for Joint Species Distribution Modeling. bioRxiv. Submitted to NeurIPS as a conference paper. Currently available on bioRxiv as a preprint: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.13.724718

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

Select conference presentations
Raskin, Levi Y.; Seselj, Maja; Bitarello, Barbara 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; Seselj, Maja; Bitarello, Barbara D.; and Huelsenbeck, John (2026). Phylogenetic simulation estimates recovered morphological variation in the hominin fossil record. Paleoanthropology Society. Denver, CO.

Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Barbara D.; Seselj, Maja; and Huelsenbeck, John (2026). Principal Components Analysis is inaccurate for Plio-Pleistocene hominin systematics. American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Denver, CO.

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

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