Wallace Lab
Department of Anthropology University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico
2022
Wallace IJ, Lea AJ, Lim YAL, Chow SKW, Sayed IbM, Ngui R, Shaffee MTH, Ng K-S, Nicholas C, Venkataraman VV, Kraft TS (2022) Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP): a cross-sectional cohort study protocol. BMJ Open 12, e058660
Wallace IJ, Kraft TS, Venkataraman VV, Davis HE, Holowka NB, Harris AR, Lieberman DE, Gurven M (2022) Cultural variation in running techniques among non-industrial societies. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e14
Holowka NB, Kraft TS, Wallace IJ, Gurven M, Venkataraman VV (2022) Forest terrains influence walking kinematics among indigenous Tsimane of the Bolivian Amazon. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e19
Wallace IJ, Riew GJ, Landau R, Bendele AM, Holowka NB, Hedrick TL, Konow N, Brooks DJ, Lieberman DE (2022) Experimental evidence that physical activity inhibits osteoarthritis: implications for inferring activity patterns from osteoarthritis in archeological human skeletons. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 177, 223–231
Wallace IJ, Felson DT, Worthington S, Lieberman DE (2022) Response to: ‘Is non-industrial society undergoing an energy balance transition predisposed to accumulate abdominal adipose tissue and susceptible to knee osteoarthritis?’ by Yu et al. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 81, e64
2021
Kraft TS, Venkataraman VV, Wallace IJ, Crittenden AN, Holowka NB, Stieglitz J, Harris JA, Raichlen DA, Wood BM, Gurven M, Pontzer H (2021) The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. Science 374, eabf0130
Holowka NB, Wallace IJ, Mathiessen A, Ojiambo RM, Okutoyi P, Worthington S, Lieberman DE (2021) Urbanization and knee cartilage growth among children and adolescents in western Kenya. ACR Open Rheumatology 3, 765–770
2020
Wallace IJ, Burgess ML, Patel BA (2020) Phalangeal curvature in a chimpanzee raised like a human: implications for inferring arboreality in fossil hominins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117, 11223–11225
Wallace IJ, Marsh D, Otárola-Castillo E, Billings BK, Mngomezulu V, Grine FE (2020) Secular decline in limb bone strength among South African Africans during the 19th and 20th centuries. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 172, 492–499
Lieberman DE, Mahaffey M, Cubesare Quimare S, Holowka NB, Wallace IJ, Baggish AL (2020) Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) culture: persistence hunting, footracing, dancing, work, and the fallacy of the athletic savage. Current Anthropology 61, 356–379
2019
Wallace IJ, Felson DT, Worthington S, Duryea J, Clancy M, Aliabadi P, Eick GN, Snodgrass JJ, Baggish AL, Lieberman DE (2019) Knee osteoarthritis risk in non-industrial societies undergoing an energy balance transition: evidence from the indigenous Tarahumara of Mexico. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 78, 1693–1698
Wallace IJ, Bendele AM, Riew G, Hung H-H, Frank EH, Holowka NB, Bolze AS, Venable EM, Yegian AK, Dingwall HL, Carmody RN, Grodzinsky AJ, Lieberman DE (2019) Physical inactivity and knee osteoarthritis in guinea pigs. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 27, 1721–1728
Karakostis FA, Wallace IJ, Konow N, Harvati K (2019) Experimental evidence that physical activity affects the multivariate associations among muscle attachments (entheses). Journal of Experimental Biology 222, 213058
2018
Wallace IJ, Koch E, Holowka NB, Lieberman DE (2018) Heel impact forces during barefoot versus minimally shod walking among Tarahumara subsistence farmers and urban Americans. Royal Society Open Science 5, 180044
Wallace IJ, Hainline C, Lieberman DE (2018) Sports and the human brain: an evolutionary perspective. In Sports Neurology, Hainline B, Stern RA, editors. San Diego: Elsevier, pp. 3–10
Venkataraman VV, Yegian AK, Wallace IJ, Holowka NB, Tacey I, Gurven M, Kraft TS (2018) Locomotor constraints favour the evolution of the human pygmy phenotype in tropical rainforests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, 20181492
Patel BA, Jashashvili T, Bui SH, Carlson KJ, Griffin NL, Wallace IJ, Orr CM, Susman RL (2018) Inter-ray variation in metatarsal strength properties in humans and African apes: implications for inferring bipedal biomechanics in the Olduvai Hominid 8 foot. Journal of Human Evolution 121, 147–165
Holowka NB, Wallace IJ, Lieberman DE (2018) Foot strength and stiffness are related to footwear use in a comparison of minimally- vs. conventionally-shod populations. Scientific Reports 8, 3679
Berenbaum F, Wallace IJ, Lieberman DE, Felson DT (2018) Modern-day environmental factors in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis. Nature Reviews Rheumatology 14, 674–681
2017
Wallace IJ, Worthington S, Felson DT, Jurmain RD, Wren KT, Maijanen H, Woods RJ, Lieberman DE (2017) Knee osteoarthritis has doubled in prevalence since the mid-20th century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114, 9332–9336
Wallace IJ, Winchester JM, Su A, Boyer DM, Konow N (2017) Physical activity alters limb bone structure but not entheseal morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 107, 14–18
Wallace IJ, Demes B, Judex S (2017) Ontogenetic and genetic influences on bone’s responsiveness to mechanical signals. In Building Bones: Bone Formation and Development in Anthropology, Percival CJ, Richtsmeier JT, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 234–253
2016
Wallace IJ, Botigué LR, Lin M, Smaers JB, Henn BM, Grine FE (2016) Worldwide variation in hip fracture incidence weakly aligns with genetic divergence between populations. Osteoporosis International 27, 2867–287
Wallace IJ, Garland T Jr (2016) Mobility as an emergent property of biological organization: insights from experimental evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 25, 98–104
2015
Wallace IJ, Pagnotti GM, Rubin-Sigler J, Naeher M, Copes LE, Judex S, Rubin CT, Demes B (2015) Focal enhancement of the skeleton to exercise correlates with responsivity of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells rather than peak external forces. Journal of Experimental Biology 218, 3002–3009
Wallace IJ, Judex S, Demes B (2015) Effects of load-bearing exercise on skeletal structure and mechanics differ between outbred populations of mice. Bone 72, 1–8
Wallace IJ, Gupta S, Sankaran J, Demes B, Judex S (2015) Bone shaft bending strength index is unaffected by exercise and unloading in mice. Journal of Anatomy 226, 224–228
Wallace IJ, Rubin CT, Lieberman DE (2015) Osteoporosis. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 2015, 343
Patel BA, Wallace IJ, Boyer DM, Granatosky MC, Larson SG, Stern JT Jr (2015) Distinct functional roles of primate grasping hands and feet during arboreal quadrupedal locomotion. Journal of Human Evolution 88, 79–84
Mongle CS, Wallace IJ, Grine FE (2015) Cross-sectional structural variation relative to midshaft along hominine diaphyses. I. The forelimb. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158, 386–397
Mongle CS, Wallace IJ, Grine FE (2015) Cross-sectional structural variation relative to midshaft along hominine diaphyses. II. The hind limb. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158, 398–407
2014
Wallace IJ, Demes B, Mongle C, Pearson OM, Polk JD, Lieberman DE (2014) Exercise-induced bone formation is poorly linked to local strain magnitude in the sheep tibia. PLoS One 9, e99108
Wallace IJ, Nesbitt A, Mongle C, Gould ES, Grine FE (2014) Age-related variation in limb bone diaphyseal structure among Inuit foragers from Point Hope, northern Alaska. Archives of Osteoporosis 9, 202
Wallace IJ, Leakey MG, Leakey LN (2014) Implications of a new aff. Hippopotamus karumensis mandible from the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Kenya. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 37, 143–148
2013
Wallace IJ, Kwaczala AT, Judex S, Demes B, Carlson KJ (2013) Physical activity engendering loads from diverse directions augments the growing skeleton. Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions 13, 245–250
Su A, Wallace IJ, Nakatsukasa M (2013) Trabecular bone anisotropy and orientation in an Early Pleistocene hominin talus from East Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 64, 667–677
Before 2013
Wallace IJ, Tommasini SM, Judex S, Garland T Jr, Demes B (2012) Genetic variations and physical activity as determinants of limb bone morphology: an experimental approach using a mouse model. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148, 24–35
Wallace IJ, Middleton KM, Lublinsky S, Kelly SA, Judex S, Garland T Jr, Demes B (2010) Functional significance of genetic variation underlying limb bone diaphyseal structure. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143, 21–31
Wallace IJ, Demes B (2008) Symmetrical gaits of Cebus apella: implications for the functional significance of diagonal sequence gait in primates. Journal of Human Evolution 54, 783–794
Wallace IJ, Demes B, Jungers WL, Alvero M, Su A (2008) The bipedalism of the Dmanisi hominins: pigeon-toed early Homo? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 136, 375–378
Wallace IJ, Shea JJ (2006) Mobility patterns and core technologies in the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 33, 1293–1309