George Perry | Institute of Energy and the Environment

409 Carpenter Bldg
University Park, PA 16802

Elsevier Pure Profile

IEE Research Themes

Climate and Ecosystem Change

Affiliate Researcher

Professor, Anthropology

In the News

Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023 | Penn State University

June 12, 2023

Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023

NIH grant allows grad student to study Cuban, Cuban American health disparities | Penn State University

February 21, 2023

NIH grant allows grad student to study Cuban, Cuban American health disparities

Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships | Penn State University

June 30, 2022

Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships

First European farmers' heights did not meet expectations | Penn State University

April 7, 2022

First European farmers' heights did not meet expectations

Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients | Penn State University

May 7, 2019

Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients

Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant recipients announced | Penn State University

August 4, 2017

Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant recipients announced

Research Keywords

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Pan Troglodytes

Daubentonia Madagascariensis

Genetic Selection

Genetic Variation

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Projects

Mountainous star coral on a healthy coral reef

Reconstructing the History of Thermal and Sediment Anomalies in the Resilience of Coral in the Cartagena Bay, Colombia

Preserved plants taped to paper

Herbarium Specimens as Microbial Time Capsules in the Face of Global Change

Madgascar from space

Biogeochemical, Isotopic, and Paleo-Metagenomic Interrogation of Ecosystem Change in Southwestern Madagascar

Recent Publications

Applying an evolutionary mismatch framework to understand disease susceptibility

Lea, A. J., Clark, A. G., Dahl, A. W., Devinsky, O., Garcia, A. R., Golden, C. D., Kamau, J., Kraft, T. S., Lim, Y. A. L., Martins, D. J., Mogoi, D., Pajukanta, P., Perry, G. H., Pontzer, H., Trumble, B. C., Urlacher, S. S., Venkataraman, V. V., Wallace, I. J., Gurven, M., Lieberman, D. E., & 1 othersAyroles, J. F., Sep 2023, In: PLoS biology. 21, 9 September, e3002311.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes

Veilleux, C. C., Garrett, E. C., Pajic, P., Saitou, M., Ochieng, J., Dagsaan, L. D., Dominy, N. J., Perry, G. H., Gokcumen, O. & Melin, A. D., Dec 2023, In: Communications Biology. 6, 1, 683.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers

Marciniak, S., Bergey, C. M., Silva, A. M., Hałuszko, A., Furmanek, M., Veselka, B., Velemínský, P., Vercellotti, G., Wahl, J., Zariņa, G., Longhi, C., Kolář, J., Garrido-Pena, R., Flores-Fernández, R., Herrero-Corral, A. M., Simalcsik, A., Müller, W., Sheridan, A., Miliauskienė, Ž., Jankauskas, R., & 21 othersMoiseyev, V., Köhler, K., Király, Á., Gamarra, B., Cheronet, O., Szeverényi, V., Kiss, V., Szeniczey, T., Kiss, K., Zoffmann, Z. K., Koós, J., Hellebrandt, M., Maier, R. M., Domboróczki, L., Virag, C., Novak, M., Reich, D., Hajdu, T., von Cramon-Taubadel, N., Pinhasi, R. & Perry, G. H., Apr 12 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 15, e2106743119.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Potential evolutionary body size reduction in a Malagasy primate (Propithecus verreauxi) in response to human size-selective hunting pressure

Sullivan, A. P., Godfrey, L. R., Lawler, R. R., Randrianatoandro, H., Eccles, L., Culleton, B., Ryan, T. M. & Perry, G. H., Jul 2022, In: American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 178, 3, p. 385-398 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Patterns of recent natural selection on genetic loci associated with sexually differentiated human body size and shape phenotypes

Arner, A. M., Grogan, K. E., Grabowski, M., Reyes-Centeno, H. & Perry, G. H., Jun 3 2021, In: PLoS genetics. 17, 6, e1009562.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Scanning the human genome for “signatures” of positive selection: Transformative opportunities and ethical obligations

Hernandez, M. & Perry, G. H., Mar 1 2021, In: Evolutionary anthropology. 30, 2, p. 113-121 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, “subfossil” koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

Marciniak, S., Mughal, M. R., Godfrey, L. R., Bankoff, R. J., Randrianatoandro, H., Crowley, B. E., Bergey, C. M., Muldoon, K. M., Randrianasy, J., Raharivololona, B. M., Schuster, S. C., Malhi, R. S., Yoder, A. D., Louis, E. E., Kistler, L. & Perry, G. H., Jun 29 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 26, 117118.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Erratum: The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2021) 118 (e2010632118) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010632118)

Orkin, J. D., Montague, M. J., Tejada-Martinez, D., de Manuel, M., del Campo, J., Hernandez, S. C., Di Fiore, A., Fontsere, C., Hodgson, J. A., Janiak, M. C., Kuderna, L. F. K., Lizano, E., Martin, M. P., Niimura, Y., Perry, G. H., Valverde, C. S., Tang, J., Warren, W. C., de Magalhães, J. P., Kawamura, S., & 3 othersMarquès-Bonet, T., Krawetz, R. & Melin, A. D., Aug 24 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 34, e2112613118.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS

Orkin, J. D., Montague, M. J., Tejada-Martinez, D., de Manuel, M., del Campo, J., Hernandez, S. C., Fiore, A. D., Fontsere, C., Hodgson, J. A., Janiak, M. C., Kuderna, L. F. K., Lizano, E., Martin, M. P., Niimura, Y., Perry, G. H., Valverde, C. S., Tang, J., Warren, W. C., de Magalhães, J. P., Kawamura, S., & 3 othersMarquès-Bonet, T., Krawetz, R. & Melin, A. D., Feb 16 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 7, e2010632118.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evolutionary medicine

Perry, G. H., Jul 2021, In: eLife. 10, e69398.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

Modern, archaeological, and paleontological DNA analysis of a human-harvested marine gastropod (Strombus pugilis) from Caribbean Panama

Sullivan, A. P., Marciniak, S., O'Dea, A., Wake, T. A. & Perry, G. H., Jul 2021, In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 21, 5, p. 1517-1528 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology

Westfall, A. K., Telemeco, R. S., Grizante, M. B., Waits, D. S., Clark, A. D., Simpson, D. Y., Klabacka, R. L., Sullivan, A. P., Perry, G. H., Sears, M. W., Cox, C. L., Cox, R. M., Gifford, M. E., John-Alder, H. B., Langkilde, T., Angilletta, M. J., Leaché, A. D., Tollis, M., Kusumi, K. & Schwartz, T. S., Oct 1 2021, In: GigaScience. 10, 10

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar

Burney, D. A., Andriamialison, H., Andrianaivoarivelo, R. A., Bourne, S., Crowley, B. E., De Boer, E. J., Godfrey, L. R., Goodman, S. M., Griffiths, C., Griffiths, O., Hume, J. P., Joyce, W. G., Jungers, W. L., Marciniak, S., Middleton, G. J., Muldoon, K. M., Noromalala, E., Pérez, V. R., Perry, G. H., Randalana, R., & 1 othersWright, H. T., Jan 1 2020, In: Quaternary Research (United States). 93, 1, p. 187-203 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Studying human and nonhuman primate evolutionary biology with powerful in vitro and in vivo functional genomics tools

Grogan, K. E. & Perry, G. H., May 1 2020, In: Evolutionary anthropology. 29, 3, p. 143-158 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Factors influencing taxonomic unevenness in scientific research: A mixed-methods case study of non-human primate genomic sequence data generation: Why do scientists study certain species?

Hernandez, M., Shenk, M. K. & Perry, G. H., Sep 1 2020, In: Royal Society Open Science. 7, 9, 1206.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review