Selected papers

• Nishimura, T. (2020). Primate vocal anatomy and physiology: similarities and differences between humans and nonhuman primates. The Origins of Language Revisited: Differentiation from Music and the Emergence of Neurodiversity and Autism (Masataka, N. ed.), Tokyo: Springer, Tokyo, pp. 25-53.
• Herbst, C. T., Koda, H., Kunieda, T., Suzuki, J., Garcia, M., Fitch, W. T., & Nishimura, T. (2018). Japanese macaque phonatory physiology. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(Pt 12), jeb171801. doi:10.1242/jeb.171801
• Koda, H., Tokuda, I. T., Wakita, M., Ito, T., & Nishimura, T.* (2015). The source-filter theory of whistle-like calls in marmosets: Acoustic analysis and simulation of helium-modulated voices. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(6), 3068-3076. doi:10.1121/1.4921607 *corresponding author
• Hiroki Koda, Takeshi Nishimura*, Isao T. Tokuda, Chisako Oyakawa, Toshikuni Nihonmatsu & Nobuo Masataka. (2012) Soprano singing in gibbons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149: 347-355. *corresponding author
• Takeshi Nishimura, Takao Oishi, Juri Suzuki, Keiji Matsuda & Toshimitsu Takahashi. (2008) Development of the supralaryngeal vocal tract in Japanese macaques: implications for the evolution of the descent of the larynx. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135(2): 182-194.
• Takeshi Nishimura, Akichika Mikami, Juri Suzuki & Tetsuro Matsuzawa. (2007) Development of the laryngeal air sac in chimpanzees. International Journal of Primatology 28(2). 483-492.
• Takeshi Nishimura, Akichika Mikami, Juri Suzuki & Tetsuro Matsuzawa. (2006) Descent of the hyoid in chimpanzees: evolution of facial flattening and speech. Journal of Human Evolution 51(3): 244-254.
• Takeshi Nishimura, Akichika Mikami, Juri Suzuki & Tetsuro Matsuzawa. (2003) Descent of the larynx in chimpanzee infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(12): 6930-6933.
• Takeshi Nishimura. (2003) Comparative morphology of the hyo-laryngeal complex in anthropoids: two steps in the evolution of the descent of the larynx. Primates 44(1): 41-49.
  

Selected papers

• Nishimura, T., & Kaneko, A. (2019). Temperature profile of the nasal cavity in Japanese macaques. Primates, 60(5), 431-435. doi:10.1007/s10329-019-00741-0
• Nishimura T, Mori F, Hanida S, Kumahata K, Ishikawa S, Samarat K, Miyabe-Nishiwaki T, Hayashi M, Tomonaga M, Suzuki J, Matsuzawa T, and Matsuzawa T. (2016). Impaired air conditioning within the nasal cavity in flat-faced Homo. PLoS Computational Biology, 12(3), e1004807. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004807
• Mori, F., Hanida, S., Kumahata, K., Miyabe-Nishiwaki, T., Suzuki, J., Matsuzawa, T., & Nishimura, T. D. * (2015). Minor contributions of the maxillary sinus to the air-conditioning performance in macaque monkeys. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(Pt 15), 2394-2401.
• Nishimura, T. D., & Ito, T. (2014). Aplasia of the maxillary sinus in a Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) with implications for its evolutionary loss and reacquisition. Primates, 55(4), 501-508. doi:10.1007/s10329-014-0428-0
• Takeshi D. Nishimura, Masanaru Takai, Takehisa Tsubamoto, Naoko Egi & Nobuo Shigehara. (2005) Variation in maxillary sinus anatomy among platyrrhine monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution 49(3): 370-389.

Selected papers

• Nishimura, T., Morimoto, N., & Ito, T. (2019). Shape variation in the facial part of the cranium in macaques and African papionins using geometric morphometrics. Primates, 60(5), 401-419. doi:10.1007/s10329-019-00740-1
• Nishimura, T. D., Ito, T., Yano, W., Ebbestad, J. O. R., & Takai, M. (2014). Nasal architecture in Procynocephalus wimani (Early Pleistocene, China) and implications for its phyletic relationship with Paradolichopithecus. Anthropological Science, 122(2), 101-113. doi:10.1537/ase.140624
• Takeshi D. Nishimura, Masanaru Takai, Brigitte Senut, Hajime Taru, Evgeny N. Maschenko & Abel Prieur. (2012) Reassessment of Dolichopithecus (Kanagawapithecus) leptopostorbitalis, a colobine monkey from the Late Pliocene of Japan. Journal of Human Evolution 62: 548-561.
• Takeshi D. Nishimura, Yingqi Zhang & Masanaru Takai. (2010) Nasal anatomy of Paradolichopithecus gansuensis (Early Pleistocene, Longdan, China) with comments on phyletic relationships among the species of this genus. Folia Primatologica 81: 53-62.
• Tsuyoshi Ito, Takeshi D Nishimura, Brigitte Senut, Thomas Koppe, Jacque Treil & Masanaru Takai (2009) Reappraisal of Macaca speciosa subfossilis from the late Pleistocene of northern Vietnam based on the analysis of cranial anatomy. International Journal of Primatology 30(5): 643-662.
• Takeshi D. Nishimura, Brigitte Senut, Abel Prieur, Jacque Treil, Masanaru Takai. (2009) Nasal architecture of Paradolichopithecus arvernensis (late Pliocene, Sen e ze , France ) and its phyletic implications. Journal of Human Evolution 56(2): 123-127.
• Takeshi D. Nishimura, Masanaru Takai & Evgeny N. Maschenko. (2007) A maxillary sinus of Paradolichopithecus sushkini (late Pliocene, southern Tajikistan ) and its phyletic implications. Journal of Human Evolution 52(6): 637-646.