Peer reviewed publications (* Indicates student co-authors at time of publication)

In revision Zeng, L., Huang, X., Yang, D., Stevenson, M., Liu, H., Yang, G., Zhang, G., Chen, X. Estimating biomass of submerged macrophytes to sedimentary organic matter using concentrations and δ13C of n-alkanes with the Bayesian multi-source mixing model. JGR-Biogeosciences. 

In press *Saslaw, M., Yang, D., Lee, D., Poulsen, C., Henkes, G., An isotope mass balance analysis of evaporative loss from Lake Turkana, Kenya using δ18O and δD of natural waters. Water Resources Research.

2024 Yang, D., Uno, KT., Cerling, TE., Mwebi, O., Leakey, LN., Grine, FE., Souron, A. Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis reveals seasonal dietary variability and niche partitioning among bushpigs/red river hogs and warthogs. Current Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoae007

2024 Kappelman, J., Todd, LC., Davis, CA., Cerling, TE., … Yang, D., … (and 59 other co-authors). Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption. Nature.  Download PDF  Download supplement

2024 Present, TM., Niespolo, EM., Clarke, CE., Behrensmeyer, AK., Leakey, LN., Leakey, MG., Mongle, C., Du Plessis, A., Northrup, P., Tappero, RV., Yang, D., Rasbury, ET, Grine, FE., Nondestructive geochemical characterization of fossil hominin taphonomy and burial history. Quaternary Science Reviews. Download PDF  Download supplement

2023 Yang, D., Bowen, GJ., Uno, KT., *Podkovyroff, K., Carpenter, NA., Fernandez, DP., Cerling, TE. BITS: a Bayesian Isotope Turnover and Sampling model for strontium isotopes in proboscideans and its potential utility in movement ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.14218

2022 Yang, D., Bowen, GJ. Integrating plant wax abundance and isotopes for paleovegetation and paleoclimate reconstructions: A multi-source mixing model using a Bayesian framework. Climate of the Past, https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/2181/2022/

2022 Yang, D., *Bharatiya, M., Grine, F. Hunter-Schreger Band configuration in modern human molars reveals more decussation in the lateral enamel of 'functional' cusps than 'guiding' cusps. Archives of Oral Biology Download PDF Download supplement

2022 Yang, D., *Pisano, A., Kolasa, J., Jashashvili, T., Kibii, J., Gomez Cano, AR., Viriot, L., Grine, F., Souron, A. Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids. Paleobiology, https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2022.11 

2020 Grine, F., Lee-Thorp, J., Blumenthal, S., Sponheimer, M., Teaford, M., Ungar, P., van der Merwe, N. and Yang, D. Stable carbon isotope and molar microwear variability of South African australopiths in relation to paleohabitats and taxonomy. In Watson & Schmidt Eds, Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts. Elsevier. Download PDF

2020 Yang, D., Uno, K., Souron, A., McGrath, K., Pubert, E., Cerling, T. Intra-tooth stable isotope variations in warthog canines and third molars: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Chemical Geology. Download PDF Download supplement

2019 Grine, F., Leakey, M., Gathago, P., Brown, F., Mongle, C., Yang, D., Jungers, W., and Leakey, L. Complete permanent mandibular dentition of early Homo from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 131:152 - 175. Download PDF

Open-source algorithms

2024 Yang, D. Enamel_Sr: Multi-substrate and micro-sampling analyses reveal spatial patterns of strontium isotope turnover in elephant molar enamel. https://zenodo.org/records/10892382 

2024 Yang, D., Saslaw, M., and Henkes, G. Bayesian approach for modeling Lake Turkana water isotopes. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10668926

2023 Yang, D. BITS: Bayesian Isotope Turnover and Sampling model. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7768584 

2022 Yang, D. LipidMM: A multi-source mixing model for plant wax lipids using a Bayesian framework. Release: Bok choy (Ver. 1.0.5). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7025765 

News and Review

2014 Yang, D., Wallace, I., and de Vries, D. Peking Man: New Research, Evolutionary Anthropology, 23:162–163.