Adrian Lister

Adrian Mark Lister (* 1955 ) is a British paleontologist and paleobiologist .

Life

Lister received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge in 1976 . In 1981 he was with a thesis on Evolutionary Studies Pleistocene Deer at the same university for Ph.D. PhD. From 1981 to 1982 he was a fellow of the European Exchange Program of the Royal Society at the University of Aix-Marseille in France and at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main . From 1982 to 1985 he was a research fellow at Girton College , Cambridge . From 1986 to 1991 he was a research assistant at University College London . From 1992 to 1997 he was a lecturer, from 1997 to 2002 he was a reader and from 2002 to 2007 he was professor of paleobiology at University College London. He has been an honorary professor since 2007.

From 1992 to 1996 he was a researcher for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council at the Natural History Museum in London. Since 2007 he has been head of research in the paleontological department.

Lister's research focuses primarily on the Quaternary to recent large mammals , with particular emphasis on deer and elephants (including mammoths ). His projects include or included the dwarfing of endemic mammal species (especially elephants and deer) on the Mediterranean islands in the Quaternary, the timing and causes of the extinction of large mammal species ( megafauna ) in the late Quaternary by mapping the changing ranges of mammal species in relation to vegetation and to humans as well as to the patterns of speciation and adaptation in fossil mammals.

In 1985 he and Gerhard Storch described the fossil mammal Leptictidium nasutum from the Eocene . In 2001 he served as a scientific advisor on the documentary series The Heirs of the Saurians and in 2012 on the BBC documentary Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice .

Fonts (selection)

• with Paul G. Bahn: Mammoths , 1994 (new edition under the title Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age , 2007, German: Mammuts: Riesen der Eiszeit , 1997, German translation of the new edition 2009)
• with Lynn Rothschild: Evolution on Planet Earth: Impact of the Physical Environment , 2003
• with Martin Ursell (Illustrator): The Ice Age Tracker's Guide , 2010
• Mammoths & Mastodons of the Ice Age , 2014
• Mammoths: Ice Age Giants , 2014
• Darwin's Fossils: Discoveries that Shaped the Theory of Evolution , 2018

literature

• Adrian Lister. Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2018. Gale In Context: Biography, accessed January 16, 2020

Web links

• Employee profile at the Natural History Museum
• Adrian Lister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Adrian Lister in the bibliographic database WorldCat