Research
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Latest papers
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires.
Open research Europe · 2025 · senior author
Technological complexity and combinatorial invention in small-scale societies.
Science advances · 2025
A test of the Archaic Homo Introgression Hypothesis for the Chiari malformation type I.
Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $150,000
Human Evolutionary Studies
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $1,150,000
Human Evolutionary Studies
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $250,000
Human Evolutionary Studies
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
43 publications.
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires.
Arinyo I Prats A, Sandgathe D, Riede F, Collard M
Technological complexity and combinatorial invention in small-scale societies.
Hamilton MJ, Lobo J, Collard M, Walker RS, Buchanan B
A test of the Archaic Homo Introgression Hypothesis for the Chiari malformation type I.
Plomp K, Lewis D, Buck L, Bukhari S, Rae T, Gnanalingham K, Collard M
Mandibular shape and diet in extant primates: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis.
Plomp KA, Owen J, Dobney K, Collard M
Editorial: Insights in: evolutionary psychology 2022.
Massar K, Collard M, Jonason PK
An assessment of the impact of cross-cultural variation in plant macronutrients on the recommendations of the Paleo Diet.
Ruffett A, Collard M
Does the Locally-Adaptive Model of Archaeological Potential (LAMAP) work for hunter-gatherer sites? A test using data from the Tanana Valley, Alaska.
Rondeau R, Carleton WC, Collard M, Driver J
Rainfall, temperature, and Classic Maya conflict: A comparison of hypotheses using Bayesian time-series analysis.
Collard M, Carleton WC, Campbell DA
A 3D basicranial shape-based assessment of local and continental northwest European ancestry among 5th to 9th century CE Anglo-Saxons.
Plomp KA, Dobney K, Collard M
Author Correction: Population genomics of the Viking world.
Margaryan A, Lawson DJ, Sikora M, Racimo F, Rasmussen S, Moltke I, Cassidy LM, Jørsboe E, Ingason A, Pedersen MW, Korneliussen T, Wilhelmson H, Buś MM, de Barros Damgaard P, Martiniano R, Renaud G, Bhérer C, Moreno-Mayar JV, Fotakis AK, Allen M, Allmäe R, Molak M, Cappellini E, Scorrano G, McColl H, Buzhilova A, Fox A, Albrechtsen A, Schütz B, Skar B, Arcini C, Falys C, Jonson CH, Błaszczyk D, Pezhemsky D, Turner-Walker G, Gestsdóttir H, Lundstrøm I, Gustin I, Mainland I, Potekhina I, Muntoni IM, Cheng J, Stenderup J, Ma J, Gibson J, Peets J, Gustafsson J, Iversen KH, Simpson L, Strand L, Loe L, Sikora M, Florek M, Vretemark M, Redknap M, Bajka M, Pushkina T, Søvsø M, Grigoreva N, Christensen T, Kastholm O, Uldum O, Favia P, Holck P, Sten S, Arge SV, Ellingvåg S, Moiseyev V, Bogdanowicz W, Magnusson Y, Orlando L, Pentz P, Jessen MD, Pedersen A, Collard M, Bradley DG, Jørkov ML, Arneborg J, Lynnerup N, Price N, Gilbert MTP, Allentoft ME, Bill J, Sindbæk SM, Hedeager L, Kristiansen K, Nielsen R, Werge T, Willerslev E
Human Evolutionary Studies
Principal investigators: Collard, Mark
Human Evolutionary Studies
Principal investigators: Collard, Mark
Keywords: Human evolution; cultural evolution; paleoanthropology; species identification; phylogenetics; technology
Human Evolutionary Studies
Principal investigators: Collard, Mark
Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies
Principal investigators: Collard, Mark
Keywords: human evolution, cultural evolution, morphometrics, phylogenetics, palaeoanthropology
The evolution of religion and morality
Keywords: religion; morality; evolution of religion; cognitive science of religion; prosociality; cultural evolution; gene-culture coevolution
The adoption and spread of agriculture in Europe new evidence for how and why this occurred from direct measures of human diets
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael P.
Keywords: agriculture; Neolithic; Europe; diet; isotopes; archaeological science
Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies
Principal investigators: Collard, Mark
Keywords: human evolution, cultural evolution, evolutionary archaeology, biological anthropology, archaeological science, phylogenetics
Causes of toolkit variation among hunter-gatherers
Principal investigators: Collard, Mark
Keywords: hunter-gatherers; subsistence; toolkits; tools; technology; risk; mobility; diet; population size; population pressure; return rate; diet breadth; causal modeling; path analysis
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Pablo Nepomnaschy and Daniel Sellen: 2 shared papers
- Pablo Nepomnaschy and Mark Collard: 2 shared papers
- Daniel Sellen and Mark Collard: 2 shared papers
- Pablo Nepomnaschy and Michael Richards: 1 shared paper
- Pablo Nepomnaschy and Rachel Altman: 1 shared paper
- Michael Richards and Mark Collard: 1 shared paper
- Michael Richards and Darlene Weston: 1 shared paper
- Michael Richards and Rachel Altman: 1 shared paper
- Mark Collard and Dennis Sandgathe: 1 shared paper
- Mark Collard and Jonathan Driver: 1 shared paper
- Mark Collard and Darlene Weston: 1 shared paper
- Mark Collard and April Nowell: 1 shared paper
- Mark Collard and Rachel Altman: 1 shared paper
- Department of Archaeology
- Department of Anthropology
- Health Sciences, Faculty of
- Anthropology
- Statistics and Actuarial Science
Co-authors at Simon Fraser University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Pablo Nepomnaschy
Health Sciences, Faculty of
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Daniel Sellen
Department of Anthropology
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Rachel Altman
Statistics and Actuarial Science
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Dennis Sandgathe
Department of Archaeology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Jonathan Driver
Department of Archaeology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Darlene Weston
Department of Anthropology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
April Nowell
Anthropology
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Michael Richards
Department of Archaeology
1 shared papers, latest 2017
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