Personal identification

Full name

Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla

Citation names

• Zorrilla-Revilla, Guillermo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

E115-E383-4630

ORCID iD

0000-0003-0162-1848

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)

	Degree	Classification
2015/09/29 - 2022/05/22 Concluded	Doctor en Evolución Humana (Doctor) Universidad de Burgos - Campus San Amaro, Spain "DEMANDAS ENERGÉTICAS DE ACTIVIDADES DE SUBSISTENCIA EN INDIVIDUOS SUBADULTOS. CONTRIBUCIONES A LA ECOLOGÍA DEL COMPORTAMIENTO HUMANO" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09/15 - 2015/09/29 Concluded	Máster en Evolución Humana (Master Universitario) Universidad de Burgos, Spain
2008/09/30 - 2013/06/13 Concluded	5 years Bachelor in Humanities (Licence) Universidad de Burgos, Spain "Energetic demands during subsistence activities in subadult individuals. Contributions to the Human Behavioral Ecology. Ph.D.- Human Evolution, Quaternary Palaeoecology and applied Geophysical techniques " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Extraordinary End-of-Career Prize

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidad de Burgos - Campus San Amaro, Spain
	Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, United States

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/09/01 - 2028/09/01	Los yacimientos pleistocenos y holocenos dpleishoata-El complejo kárstico de Cueva Mayor-Cueva del Silo de la Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, España PID2024-156477NB-C33 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidad de Burgos, Spain	Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2025/09/01	Comportamiento eco-social de los homininos de la Sierra de Atapuerca durante el Cuaternario VI # Eco-Social behaviour of the Sierra de Atapuerca hominins during the Quaternary VI PID2021-122355NB-C32 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Instititut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Spain	Concluded
2020/06/01 - 2024/02/28	Ecología trófica de los cazadores-recolectores paleolíticos en Iberia (TROPHIc) PID2019-105101GB-I0 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Spain	Concluded
2016/01/01 - 2018/12/31	El Pleistoceno y Holoceno de la Sierra de Atapuerca Burgos, España): Geología, Paleoecología y Paleoecología de Homínidos ll CGL2015-65387-C3-3-P Integration into Research Grant Fellow Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Spain	Concluded

Publications

Journal article

Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla; Olalla Prado-Nóvoa; Kevin P. Davy; Rebeca García-González; Eleni Laskaridou; Kristen R. Howard; Elaina L. Marinik; José Miguel Carretero; Stella L. Volpe. "Morphological Influences and Energetic Walking Flexibility in Determining Preferred vs. Optimal Speeds: An Evolutionary Human Ecology Perspective on Children and Adolescents". American Journal of Biological Anthropology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70152. 10.1002/ajpa.70152 Olalla Prado-Nóvoa; Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla; Kristen R. Howard; Eleni Laskaridou; Elaina L. Marinik; Kevin P. Davy. "Slow it down: evolution of human metabolism over two million years". Historical Biology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2501786. 10.1080/08912963.2025.2501786 Howard, K.R.; Prado-Nóvoa, O.; Zorrilla-Revilla, G.; Laskaridou, E.; Reid, G.R.; Marinik, E.L.; Stamatiou, M.; et al. "Physical activity is directly associated with total energy expenditure without evidence of constraint or compensation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 43 (2025): https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-105019629383&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1073/pnas.2519626122 Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla; Stella L. Volpe; Olalla Prado-Nóvoa; Kristen R. Howard; Eleni Laskaridou; Elaina L. Marinik; Rohit Ramadoss; Kevin P. Davy; Rebeca García-González. "Far from the walking pace. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of the suboptimal locomotion speeds in non-adult humans". American Journal of Human Biology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24138. 10.1002/ajhb.24138 Prado-Nóvoa, O.; Howard, K.R.; Laskaridou, E.; Zorrilla-Revilla, G.; Reid, G.R.; Marinik, E.L.; Davy, B.M.; et al. "Validity of predictive equations for total energy expenditure against doubly labeled water". Scientific Reports 14 1 (2024): https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85197801362&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1038/s41598-024-66767-7 Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla. "To be or not to be a lithic tool: analysing the limestone pieces of Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain)". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01643-x. 10.1007/s12520-022-01643-x Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla. "Evaluating the human capacity of carrying loads without costs: A scoping review of the Free-Ride phenomenon". American Journal of Human Biology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23794. 10.1002/ajhb.23794 "At their own pace: Optimal walking speed in children and adolescents". American Journal of Biological Anthropology 178 4 (2022): 593-604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24562. 10.1002/ajpa.24562 "Let’s Play at Digging". Human Nature 33 2 (2022): 172-195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-022-09428-w. 10.1007/s12110-022-09428-w Guillermo Zorrilla-Revilla. "Gathering Is Not Only for Girls". Human Nature (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09411-x "Know-how, or How Knapping Experience Can Affect a Prehistoric Lithic Workshop". Lithic Technology 46 3 (2021): 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2021.1911207. 10.1080/01977261.2021.1911207 "Locomotor Economy and Foraging Ecology in Hominins". Journal of Anthropological Research 77 3 (2021): 338-361. https://doi.org/10.1086/715402. 10.1086/715402 "Daily Distance Traveled Is Associated with Greater Brain Size in Primates.". Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1159/000510782. 10.1159/000510782 "No sex differences in the economy of load-carriage". American Journal of Human Biology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23352. 10.1002/ajhb.23352 "Does optimal foraging theory explain the behavior of the oldest human cannibals?". Journal of Human Evolution (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.010. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.010 "Energetic cost of walking in fossil hominins". American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23301. 10.1002/ajpa.23301 "Carrying loads: Validating a portable tri-axial accelerometer during frequent and brief physical activity". Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2017.01.236. 10.1016/j.jsams.2017.01.236 "Efficiency of gathering and its archaeological implications for an European Early Palaeolithic population". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.12.002. 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.12.002

Award

2023	Extraordinary PhD Award Universidad de Burgos, Spain
2021	Social council award in humanities for university career University of Burgos Universidad de Burgos, Spain
2013	Extraordinary Licenciature award- 2013 Universidad de Burgos, Spain