2026:
Joanna Baker, Rob Barton, and Chris Venditti. "Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon". Nature Communications. 17.136 (2026).
2025:
Butler, George, Joanna Baker, Sarah R. Amend, Kenneth J. Pienta, and Chris Venditti. "Divergent evolutionary dynamics of benign and malignant tumors." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 45 (2025): e2519203122.
Joanna Baker, Rob Barton, and Chris Venditti. "Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand." Communications Biology 8.1 (2025): 1257.
George Butler, Joanna Baker, Sarah R Amend, Kenneth J Pienta, and Chris Venditti. "No evidence for Peto's Paradox in terrestrial vertebrates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.9 (2025): e2422861122.
Kerry Stewart, Chris Venditti, Carlos P. Carmona, Joanna Baker, Chris Clements, Joseph A. Tobias, and Manuela González-Suárez. "Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity." Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025): 1-13.
Jorge Avaria-Llautureo, Thomas A. Püschel, Andrew Meade, Joanna Baker, Samuel L. Nicholson, and Chris Venditti. "The radiation and geographic expansion of euprimates through diverse climates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.32 (2025): e2423833122.
Jacob D Gardner*, Joanna Baker*, Chris Venditti, and Chris Organ. "Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data." Nature Communications 16.1 (2025): 6130. *These authors contributed equally.
Thomas A Puschel, Samuel L Nicholson, Joanna Baker, Robert A Barton, and Chris Venditti. "Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization." PNAS, 121 (2025), 489: e2409542121.
2024:
Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker, and Rob Barton. "Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size." Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8:1534-1542.
Marco Leonti, Joanna Baker, Peter Staub, Laura Casu, and Julie Hawkins. "Taste shaped the use of botanical drugs." eLife (2024) , 12: RP90070.
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2021:
Joanna Baker, Andrew Meade, and Chris Venditti. "Genes underlying the evolution of tetrapod testes size." BMC Biology, 19 (2021), 1: 1-10.
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Joanna Baker, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel, and Chris Venditti. "Nothing Wrong with the Analysis of Clades in Comparative Evolutionary Studies: A Reply to Poe et al." Systematic Biology, 70 (2021), 1: 197-201.
2020:
Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker , Andrew Meade, Michael J. Benton, and Stuart Humphries. "150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency". Nature 587 (2020): 83-86.
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Bruno C Genevcius, Joanna Baker, and Filipe M Bianchi. "Female-driven intersexual coevolution in beetle genitalia" Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33, no. 7 (2020): 957-965.
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2019:
Joanna Baker and Chris Venditti. "Rapid change in mammalian eye shape is explained by activity pattern." Current Biology. 6, no. 18 (2019):1082-1088.
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Joanna Baker, Stuart Humphries, Henry Ferguson-Gow, Andrew Meade, and Chris Venditti. "Rapid decreases in relative testes mass among monogamous birds but not in other vertebrates." Ecology Letters 23, no. 2: 283-292.
2016:
Joanna Baker, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel, and Chris Venditti. "Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies." Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 18, no. 1 (2016): 95-115.
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2015:
Richard M. Sibly, Joanna Baker, John M. Grady, Susan M. Luna, Astrid Kodric-Brown, Chris Venditti, and James H. Brown. "Fundamental insights into ontogenetic growth from theory and fish." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112.45 (2015): 13934-13939.
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Isabella Capellini, Joanna Baker, William L. Allen, Sally E. Street, and Chris Venditti. "The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success." Ecology letters 18, no. 10 (2015): 1099-1107.
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Joanna Baker, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel, and Chris Venditti. "Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 16 (2015): 5093-5098
In preparation
Olivia Hellyer-Price, Joanna Baker, Michael J Benton, Stuart Humphries, and Chris Venditti. "Birds evolved enhanced flight performance through the Mesozoic." In preparation.
Olivia Hellyer-Price, Manabu Sakamoto, and Joanna Baker, Chris Venditti. "A directional temporal trend in avian forelimb length." In preparation for Science Advances.
Samuel L Nicholson, Thomas A Puschel, and Joanna Baker, Chris Venditti. Title under embargo: hominin brain size. In preparation for Ecology Letters.
Manabu Sakamoto, Chris Organ, and Joanna Baker, Michael J Benton, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel, and Chris Venditti. "Body size evolution in dinosaurs across the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary". In preparation for Science.
Manabu Sakamoto, Joanna Baker, and Chris Venditti. "Phylogenetic multi-response modelling reveals signatures of ecology in bird beak shape evolution." In preparation.
Manabu Sakamoto, Joanna Baker, and Chris Venditti. "Phylogenetic multi-response modelling reveals biomechanical controls on the diversity and evolution of cranial morphology in theropod dinosaurs.