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Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Museum of Paleontology
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Anthropology

• Fields of Study

  • Fossil Record and Evolution of Mammals

• About

  Research Interests
  Mammals have an unusually dense and continuous fossil record, and are thus ideal for evolutionary studies. I am interested in understanding how evolution as a process, acting on generation-to-generation scales of time yields the microevolutionary and macroevolutionary patterns that we observe on longer historical and geological scales of time. A more detailed summary of my research interests is provided on my personal home page (q.v.)

  Academic Background
  A.B., Princeton University, 1968.
  Ph.D., Yale University, 1974.
  NATO postdoctoral fellow, Universite de Montpellier (France), 1975.
  Professor and Curator at University of Michigan since 1974.
  Director of the Museum of Paleontology from 1981-1987, 1989-2011.

• Education

  • Ph.D., Geology, Yale University, 1974
  • A.B., Princeton University, 1968

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2012) 37. Late Eocene Sea Cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi Al Hitan in the Western Desert of Fayum, Egypt
  • (2001) 33. Paleocene-Eocene Stratigraphy and Biotic Change in the Bighorn and Clarks Fork Basins, Wyoming
  • (1999) 31. Terrestrial Mesonychia to Aquatic Cetacea: Transformation of the Basicranium and Evolution of Hearing in Whales
  • (1992) 30. Marine Mammals (Cetacea and Sirenia) from the Eocene of Gebel Mokattam and Fayum, Egypt: Stratigraphy, Age, and Paleoenvironments
  • (1989) 28. New Earliest Wasatchian Mammalian Fauna from the Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming: Composition and Diversity in a Rarely Sampled High-Floodplain Assemblage

• Articles

  • (2012) Evolution of Whales from Land to Sea, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society