Castillo ER, Lieberman GM, McCarty LS, Lieberman DE. (2014) Effects of pole compliance and step frequency on the biomechanics and economy of pole carrying during human walking. Journal of Applied Physiology 117(5): 507-517. DOI: 10.992/japplphysiol.00119.2014. pdf
Castillo ER, Lieberman DE. (2015) Lower back pain. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1(1): 2-3. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou034. pdf
Lieberman DE, Castillo ER, Otárola-Castillo ER, Sang MK, Sigei TK, Ojiambo R, Okutoyi P, Pitsiladis Y. (2015) Variation in foot strike patterns among habitually barefoot and shod runners in Kenya. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131354. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131354. pdf
Lieberman DE, Warrener AG, Wang J, Castillo ER. (2015) Effects of stride frequency and foot position at landing on braking force, hip torque, impact peak force and the metabolic cost of running in humans. Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 3406-3414. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.125500. pdf
Hsu C, Castillo E, Lieberman D. (2015) The relationship between trunk muscle strength and flexibility, intervertebral disc wedging, and human lumbar lordosis. The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal 8(1): 35-41. pdf
Castillo ER, Sang MK, Sigei TK, Dingwall HL, Okutoyi P, Ojiambo R, Otárola-Castillo ER, Pitsiladis Y, Lieberman DE. (2016) Physical fitness differences between rural and urban children from western Kenya. American Journal of Human Biology 28(4): 514-523. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22822. pdf
Castillo ER, Hsu C, Mair RW, Lieberman DE. (2017) Testing biomechanical models of human lumbar lordosis variability. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163(1): 110-121. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23189. pdf
Young HS, McCauley DJ, Dirzo R, Nunn CL, Campana MG, Agwanda B, Otárola-Castillo ER, Castillo ER, Pringle RM, Veblen KE, Salkeld DJ, Stewardson K, Fleischer R, Lambin EF, Palmer TM, Helgen KM. (2017) Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372: 20160116. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0116. pdf
Castillo, ER. (2017) The Evolution and Function of Human Lumbar Lordosis Variability. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. pdf
Castillo ER, Lieberman DE. (2018) Shock attenuation in the human lumbar spine during walking and running. Journal of Experimental Biology 221(9). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.177949. pdf
Dudar JC, Castillo ER. (2019) Quantification of anatomical variation at the atlanto-occipital articulation: Morphometric resolution of commingled human remains within the repatriation documentation process. Journal of Anatomy 235(2): 396-411. DOI: 10.1111/joa.12561. pdf
Yegian AK, Heymsfield SB, Castillo ER, Müller MJ, Redman LM, Lieberman DE. (2024) Metabolic scaling, energy allocation tradeoffs, and the evolution of humans’ unique metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 121(48). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2409674121. pdf
Castillo ER, Urlacher SS, Gurven M, Pontzer H. (in prep) Changes in mortality rates and life expectancy through the Epidemiological Transition: An evolutionary perspective.
Castillo ER, Lieberman DE. (in prep) Effects of lordosis on bending deformation of the human lumbar spine during in vivo axial loading.