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Articles (on international peer-reviewed journals with IF)


Franklin D., Flavel A., Kuliukas A., Cardini A., Marks M.K., Oxnard C., O’Higgins P. Estimation of sex from sternal measurements in a Western Australian population. Forensic Science International, in press.


Cardini A., Dunn J., O'Higgins P., Elton S. Clines in Africa: does size vary in the same way among widespread Sub-Saharan monkeys? Journal of Biogeography, in revision.


Seetah K., Cardini A., Miracle P., 2011 - Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) population dynamics from Romualdova pecina and Vindija, Croatia: can morphospace shed light on spatial-temporal variation? Journal of Archaeological Science, 39: 500-510.


Viscosi V., Cardini A., 2011 - Leaves, taxonomy and geometric morphometrics: a simplified protocol for beginners. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25630. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025630

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Kovarovic K., Aiello L.C., Cardini A., Lockwood C.A., 2011 - Discriminant function analyses in archaeology: are classification rates too good to be true? Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 3006-3018.


Cardini A., Elton S., 2011 - GeMBiD, a ‘Geometric morphometric approach to the study of biological diversity': an example study from the red colobus species complex. International Journal of Primatology, 32: 377–389.

Adams D.C., Cardini A., Monteiro L.R., O’Higgins P., Rohlf F.J., 2011 - Morphometrics and Phylogenetics: principal components of shape from cranial modules are neither appropriate nor effective cladistic characters. Journal of Human Evolution, 60: 240–243.


Elton S., Dunn J., Cardini A., 2010 - Clines in vervet monkey skull morphology: investigating the effects of allometry on taxonomic variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 101: 823–843.

Sanfilippo P., Cardini A., Sigal I.A., Ruddle J., Chua B., Hewitt A., Mackey D.A, 2010 - Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Optic Cup in Glaucoma. Experimental Eye Research, 91: 405-414.


Franklin D., Cardini A., Oxnard C. E., 2010 - A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Variation in Indigenous sub-Saharan African Crania. American Journal of Human Biology, 22: 23-3.

Nagorsen D., Cardini A., 2009. Tempo and mode of evolutionary divergence in modern and Holocene Vancouver Island marmots (Marmota vancouverensis) (Mammalia, Rodentia). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 47: 258–267.

Sanfilippo P., Cardini A., Mackey D., Hewitt A., Crowston J. 2009 -  Optic disc morphology - rethinking shape. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, 28: 227-248.

Gentilli A., Cardini A., Fontaneto D., Zuffi M.A.L., 2009 - The phylogenetic signal in cranial morphology of Vipera aspis: a contribution from geometric morphometrics. Herpetological Journal, 19: 69-77.

Cardini A., Nagorsen D., O’Higgins P., Polly P. D., Thorington Jr R. W., Tongiorgi P., 2009 - Detecting biological uniqueness using geometric morphometrics: an example case from the Vancouver Island marmot. Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, 21: 209-223.


   Cardini A., Elton S., 2009 - The radiation of red colobus monkeys (Primates, Colobinae): morphological evolution in a clade of endangered African primates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 157: 197–224.

Cardini A., Elton S., 2009 - Geographic and taxonomic influences on cranial variation in red colobus monkeys (Primates, Colobinae): introducing a new approach to ‘morph’ monkeys. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18: 248–263.

Nowak K., Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Evolutionary acceleration in an endangered African primate: speciation and divergence in the Zanzibar Red Colobus (Primates, Colobinae). International Journal of Primatology, 29: 1313-1339.

Franklin D., Cardini A., O’Higgins P., Oxnard C. E., Dadour I., 2008 - Mandibular morphology as an indicator of human subadult age: geometric morphometric approaches. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 4: 91–99.

Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Variation in guenon skulls I: species divergence, ecological and genetic differences. Journal of Human Evolution, 54: 615-637.

Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Variation in guenon skulls II: sexual dimorphism. Journal of Human Evolution, 54: 638-647.

Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Does the skull carry a phylogenetic signal? Evolution and modularity and in the guenons. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 93: 813–834.

Cardini A., Elton S., 2007 - Sample size and sampling error in geometric morphometric studies of size and shape. Zoomorphology, 126: 121-134. (Listed as one of the 10 most downloaded papers in Zoomorphology in 2009 and 2010).

Franklin D., Cardini A., 2007 - Mandibular Morphology as an Indicator of Human Subadult Age: Interlandmark Approaches. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 52: 1015-1019.

Cardini A, Thorington Jr. R. W., P. D. Polly, 2007 - Evolutionary acceleration in the most endangered mammal of Canada: phylogenetic signal and cranial divergence in the Vancouver Island marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 1833-1846.

Cardini A., Jansson A-U., Elton S., 2007 - Ecomorphology of vervet monkeys: a geometric morphometric approach to the study of clinal variation. Journal of Biogeography, 34: 1663-1678.

Cardini A., Thorington Jr. R. W., 2006 - Post-natal ontogeny of the marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae) cranium: allometric trajectories and species divergence. Journal of Mammalogy, 87: 201-216.

Cardini A., O’Higgins P., 2005 - Post-natal ontogeny of the mandible and ventral cranium in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): allometry, epigenetics and phylogeny. Zoomorphology, 124: 189-203.

Cardini A, Hoffmann R. S., Thorington Jr. R. W., 2005 - Morphological evolution in marmots (Rodentia, Sciuridae): size and shape of the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the cranium. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 43: 258-268.

Cardini A., Ferraguti M., 2004 - The phylogeny of Branchiobdellida (Annelida, Clitellata) assessed by sperm characters. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 243: 37-46.

Cardini A., 2004 - Evolution of marmots (Rodentia, Sciuridae): combining information on labial and lingual sides of the mandible. Acta Theriologica, 49: 301-318.

Cardini A., O’Higgins P., 2004 - Patterns of morphological evolution in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): geometric morphometrics of the cranium in the context of marmot phylogeny, ecology and conservation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 82: 385-407.

Cardini A., Slice D. E., 2004 - Mandibular shape in the genus Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): a preliminary analysis using outlines. Italian Journal of Zoology, 71: 17-25.

Fontaneto D., Melone G., Cardini A., 2004 - Geometric morphometrics study of the jaws in microscopic aquatic pseudocoelomates: shape diversity in the trophy of different species of Rotaria (Rotifera, Bdelloidea). Italian Journal of Zoology, 71: 63-72.

Cardini A., 2003 - The geometry of marmot (Rodentia: Sciuridae) mandible: phylogeny and patterns of morphological evolution. Systematic Biology, 52: 186-205.

Cardini A., Tongiorgi P., 2003 - Yellow-bellied marmots ‘in the shape space’: sexual dimorphism, growth and allometry of the mandible. Zoomorphology, 122: 11-23.

Cardini A., Ferraguti M., Gelder S. R., 2000 - A phylogenetic assessment of the branchiobdellidan family Branchiobdellidae (Annelida, Clitellata) using spermatological and somatic characters. Zoologica Scripta, 29: 347-366.


Book chapters and scientific Communications

Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 (published in March 2010) - GeMBiD, a ‘Geometric morphometric approach to the study of biological diversity'. Endangered Species Update, 25(3)

Cardini A., Diniz Filho J. A. F., Polly P. D., Elton S., 2010 - Biogeographic analysis using geometric morphometrics: clines in skull size and shape in a widespread African arboreal monkey. A. M. T. Elewa (Ed.), Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 124, Springer-Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg, Germany. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6_8.

Elton S., Cardini A., 2009 - Anthropology from the desk? The challenges of the emerging era of data sharing. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 86: 209-212.

Cardini A., Hoffmann R. S., O’Higgins P., Sala L., Thorington Jr R. W., Tongiorgi P., 2008 - Evolutionary patterns of Marmota: 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics of the mandible and cranium. In: E. A. Bikova, A. V. Esipov, Vashetko (Eds), Proceedings of the V International Conference on genus Marmota.

Ferraguti M., Cardini A., 2006 - Lo studio delle forme dei viventi e l’evoluzionismo. Treccani Scuola, http://www.treccani.it/site/Scuola/nellascuola/area_scienze_sperimentali/viventi/ferraguti.htm

Cardini A., Tintori A., Cattaneo C., Lazzaro A., Di Giancamillo M., 2004 - Sissi: from the Italian Alps the first marmot natural mummy. In: R. Ramousse, D. Allaine, M. Le Berre (Eds), Proceedings of the IV Marmot World Conference, pp. 73-75.

Cardini A., Tongiorgi P., Sala L., O’Higgins P., 2004 - Skull form and evolution in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae). In: R. Ramousse, D. Allaine, M. Le Berre (Eds), Proceedings of the IV Marmot World Conference, pp. 67-72.

Cardini A., 2002 - Mandibole e geometria: può lo studio della forma aiutare a comprendere l’evoluzione delle marmotte? Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena, Atti e Memorie, ser. VIII, vol. IV: 767-811.