Dakota E McCoy and David Haig. 2020. “Embryo Selection and Mate Choice: Can ‘Honest Signals’ Be Trusted?” Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Dakota E McCoy and Richard O Prum. 2019. “Convergent evolution of super black plumage near bright color in 15 bird families.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 222, 18, Pp. jeb208140.

Rachael Miller, Anna Frohnwieser, Martina Schiestl, Dakota E McCoy, Russell D Gray, Alex H Taylor, and Nicola S Clayton. 2019. “Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility.” Animal cognition, Pp. 1-15.

Dakota E McCoy, Martina Schiestl, Patrick Neilands, Rebecca Hassall, Russell D Gray, and Alex H Taylor. 2019. “New Caledonian Crows Behave Optimistically after Using Tools.” Current Biology.

Dakota E McCoy, Brett M Frye, Jennifer Kotler, Judith M Burkart, Monika Burns, Amanda Embury, Simon Eyre, Peter Galbusera, Jacqui Hooper, and Arun Idoe. 2019. “A comparative study of litter size and sex composition in a large dataset of callitrichine monkeys.” American journal of primatology, Pp. e23038. callitrichine_demographics_am_j_primatology_2019.pdf

Dakota E McCoy, Victoria E McCoy, Nikolaj K Mandsberg, Anna V Shneidman, Joanna Aizenberg, Richard O. Prum, and David Haig. 2019. “Structurally assisted super black in colourful peacock spiders.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286, 1902, Pp. 20190589.

Dakota E. McCoy. 2018. “Evolutionary Change.” In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, edited by Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Pp. 1–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Publisher's Version

Dakota E. McCoy. 2018. “Game Theory as a Foundation of Evolutionary Psychology.” In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, edited by Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Pp. 1–17. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Publisher's Version

Dakota E McCoy, Teresa Feo, Todd Alan Harvey, and Richard O Prum. 2018. “Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers.” Nature communications, 9, 1, Pp. 1.

Matthew B Petelle, Dakota E McCoy, Vanessa Alejandro, Julien GA Martin, and Daniel T Blumstein. 2013. “Development of boldness and docility in yellow-bellied marmots.” Animal Behaviour, 86, 6, Pp. 1147–1154.

Dakota E McCoy. 2012. “Connecticut birds and climate change: Bergmann's Rule in the fourth dimension.” Northeastern Naturalist, 19, 2, Pp. 323–335.

Dakota E McCoy and Christopher A Norris. 2012. “The cranial anatomy of the Miocene notoungulate Hegetotherium mirabile (Notoungulata, Hegetotheriidae) with preliminary observations on diet and method of feeding.” Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 53, 2, Pp. 355–375.