🎓 = Vassar student, 📔 = featured on journal cover
đź“” Cofran Z and Boughner J. 2025. “Smile-obates”: Permanent dental development in the white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar carpenteri). American Journal of Biological Anthropology 186: e70019. (related blog post)
Hurst S, Holloway R, Garvin H, Bocko G, Garcia K, Cofran Z, Hawks J, & Berger L. 2025. A reanalysis of the Taung endocranial surface: Comparison with large samples of living hominids. Journal of Human Evolution 200: 103637.
Cofran Z and Kivell T, 2024. Adult Homo naledi hand skeleton points to life before birth. In Hublin, Mounier, and Teyssandier (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens. Comptes Rendus Palevol 23(28): 441-451. (related blog post)
Labra N, Mounier A, Leprince Y, Rivière D, Didier M, Bardinet E, Santin MD, Mangin JF, Filippo A, Albessard-Ball L, Beaudet A, Broadfield D, Bruner E, Carlson KJ, Cofran Z, Falk D, Gilissen E, Gómez-Robles A, Neubauer S, Pearson A, Röding C, Zhang Y, Balzeau A. 2024. What do brain endocasts tell us? A comparative analysis of the accuracy of sulcal identification by experts and perspectives in palaeoanthropology. Journal of Anatomy 244: 274–296. (related blog post)
Cofran Z, Hurst SL, Beaudet A, & Zipfel B. 2023. An overlooked Australopithecus brain endocast from Makapansgat, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 178: 103346. (related blog post)
đź“” Cofran Z, VanSickle C, Valenzuela R🎓, GarcĂa-MartĂnez D, Walker CS, Hawks J, Zipfel B, Williams SA, & Berger LR. 2022. The immature Homo naledi ilium from the Lesedi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 179: 3–17. (related blog post)
Cofran Z. 2022. Biological Anthropology on Mars (or, skeleton of a syllabus). Book review of Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology, Willermet C and Lee S-H, Eds. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 177: 606–607.
Cofran Z, Boone M🎓, Petticord M🎓. 2021. Virtually estimated endocranial volumes of the Krapina Neandertals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174: 117–128. (related blog post)
VanSickle C, Cofran Z, Hunt D. 2020. Did Neandertals have large brains? Factors affecting endocranial volume comparisons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173: 768–775. (related blog post)
📔 Walker CS, Cofran Z, Grabowski M, Churchill SE, March D, Throckmorton Z, Hawks J, Rentzeperis F, Berger LR, DeSilva JM. 2019. Morphology of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170: 5–23. (related blog post)
Cofran Z. 2019. Brain size growth in Australopithecus. Journal of Human Evolution 130: 72–82. (related blog post)
Cofran Z. 2018. Brain size growth in wild and captive chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 80: e22876. (related blog post)
Garcia-Martinez D, Radovčić D, Radovčić J, Cofran Z, Bastir M, Rosas A. 2018. Over 100 years of Krapina: New insights into the Neanderthal thorax from the study of rib cross-sectional morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 122: 124.
Cofran Z. 2018. Ontogeny. In The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wenda Trevathan (ed). John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Cofran Z. 2018. Robust australopithecines (including Paranthropus). In The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wenda Trevathan (ed). John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
VanSickle C, Cofran Z, GarcĂa-MartĂnez D, Williams SA, Churchill SE, Berger LR, Hawks J. 2018. Homo naledi pelvic remains from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 125: 122–136. (related blog post)
Cofran Z and Walker CSW. 2017. Dental development in Homo naledi. Biology Letters 13: 20170339. (related blog post)
Cofran Z. 2017. Brain growth in Homo erectus. eLS.
Williams F and Cofran Z. 2016. Craniofacial ontogeny in Neandertals and modern humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159: 394-409. (related blog post)
Berger LR, Hawks J, de Ruiter DJ, Churchill SE, Schmid P, Delezene L, Kivell T, Garvin HM, Williams SA, DeSilva JM, Skinner MM, Musiba CM, Cameron N, Holliday TW, Harcourt-Smith W, Ackermann RR, Bastir M, Bogin B, Bolter D, Brophy J, Cofran Z, Congdon KA, Deane AS, Dembo M, Drapeau M, Elliott M, Feuerriegel EM, Garcia-Martinez D, Green DJ, Gurtov A, Irish JD, Kruger A, Laird MF, Marchi D, Meyer MR, Nalla S, Negash EW, Orr CM, Radovcic D, Schroeder L, Scott JE, Throckmorton Z, Tocheri MW, VanSickle C, Walker CS, Wei P, Zipfel B. Homo naledi, A new species of Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. eLife 4: e09560.
Cofran Z and DeSilva J. 2015. A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth. Journal of Human Evolution 81: 41-47. (analysis code)
Cofran Z. 2014. Mandibular development in Australopithecus robustus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 154: 436-446. (analysis code)
Cofran Z. 2012. Mandibular Growth in Australopithecus robustus. PhD Dissertation, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Cofran Z and Thackeray JF. 2010. One or two species? A morphometric comparison between robust australopithecines from Kromdraai and Swartkrans. South African Journal of Science 106(1/2): 40-43.
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