Here are some scientific articles that I have written or co-written over the years that may be of interest. I have picked those that are more generally readable. They can be downloaded as PDFs.
“Theory of Food” as a Neurocognitive Adaptation
John S. Allen
American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 24, 2012
Schizophrenia in Palau: A Biocultural Analysis
Roger J. Sullivan, John S. Allen, and Karen L. Nero
Current Anthropology Volume 48, Number 2, 2007
Looking for the Lunate Sulcus: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Modern Humans
John S. Allen, Joel Bruss and Hanna Damasio
The Anatomical Record, Volume 288, 2006
The Aging Brain: The Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis and Hominid Evolution
John S. Allen, Joel Bruss and Hanna Damasio
American Journal of Human Biology Volume 17, 2005
Normal Neuroanatomical Variation Due to Age: The Major Lobes and a Parcellation of the Temporal Region
John S. Allen, Joel Bruss, C. Kice Brown and Hanna Damasio
Neurobiology of Aging, Volume 26, 2005
The Structure of the Human Brain
John S. Allen, Joel Bruss and Hanna Damasio
American Scientist, Volume 92, 2004
A Morphometric Analysis of Auditory Brain Regions in Congenitally Deaf Adults
Karen Emmorey, John S. Allen, Joel Bruss, Natalie Schenker, and Hanna Damasio
PNAS, Volume 100, Number 17, 2003
Normal Neuroanatomical Variation in the Human Brain: An MRI-Volumetric Study
John S. Allen, Hanna Damasio and Thomas J. Grabowski
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 118, 2002
At Issue: Are Traditional Societies Schizophrenogenic?
John S. Allen
Schizoprenia Bulletin Volume 23, Number 3, 1997
The Non-Thrifty Genotype
John S. Allen, Susan M. Cheer
Current Anthropology, Volume 37, Number 5, 1996
Franz Boas’s Physical Anthropology: The Critique of Racial Formalism Revisited
John S. Allen
Current Anthropology Volume 30, Number 1, 1989
Schizoprenia in an Evolutionary Perspective
John S. Allen, Vincent M. Sarich
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 32, Number 1, 1988