Andrew Smith (paleontologist)

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Andrew Benjamin Smith (born February 6, 1954 ) is a British paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London .

Smith studied geology at the University of Edinburgh (Bachelor with first class honors 1976) and received his PhD in paleontology from the University of Exeter in 1979 . In 1981/82 he was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool and since 1982 he has been a scientist at the Natural History Museum in London. In 2003/04 he was visiting professor at the Natural History Museum in Paris .

Smith is particularly concerned with fossil sea ​​urchins (Echinoida), methods of drawing conclusions from the fossil record and, taking into account geological tradition , the patterns in evolutionary development (for example, also to assess mass extinction such as that at the turn of the Cretaceous / Tertiary from studies on echinoderms ) and with the early history of echinoderms ( echinoderms ). He also carried out comparative studies on evolution and species diversification using molecular biological methods and also dealt with ancient DNA preserved in amber fossil insects.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2002) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1996). In 1989 he received a PhD (D. Sc.) From the University of Edinburgh. He received the Bicentennial Medal in 1993 and the Zoology Medal of the Linnean Society in 2005 , the Bigsby Medal in 1995 and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2002 . In 2004 he received the Golden Trilobite Award from the Palaeontological Association . In 2005 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society .

Fonts

  • Systematics and the fossil record: documenting evolutionary patterns , Oxford, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Blackwell Science 1994
  • Article Echinoderms, Echinoids in Seeley, Cocks (Editor) Encyclopedia of Geology , Elsevier 2004
  • with KJ Peterson, G. Wray, DTJ Littlewood From bilateral symmetry to pentaradiality: The phylogeny of hemichordates and echinoderms , in J. Cracraft, MJ Donoghue (Eds.) Assembling the Tree of Life . Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 365–383 (Chapter 22)
  • with PW Skelton Cladistics. A practical primer on CD Rom , Cambridge University Press 2002
  • with Christopher RC Paul (Editor) Echinoderm phylogeny and evolutionary biology , Liverpool Geological Society, Clarendon Press 1988
  • with CW Wright British Cretaceous echinoids , Palaeontographical Society Monographs, London, eight parts, 1989-2008
  • Editor: Fossils of the Chalk , Palaeontological Association, London 1985, therein with Wright Echinoderms
  • Echinoid Palaeobiology , Allen and Unwin 1984
  • Editor with R. Emson, ACCampbell Echinoderm Research 1995 , Balkema, Rotterdam 1996
  • Stereom microstructure of the echinoid test , Palaeontological Association, London 1980
  • Dating the origin of metazoan body plans , Evolution and Development, Volume 1, 1999, pp. 138-142
  • Echinodermata , in JW Murray (Ed.) Atlas of Invertebrate Macrofossils , Longman, London, 1985, pp. 153-181
  • Analysis of diversity , in Derek Briggs , P. Crowther (Editor) Paleobiology. A synthesis , Blackwell Scientific Publications 1989 (and in Briggs / Crowther Paleobiology 2 , Cambridge University Press 2001)
  • with Richard Fortey , P. Forey, P. Kendrick Taxonomy and fossils: a critical approach , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, Volume 359, 2004, pp. 639-653
  • What does palaeontology contribute to systematics in a molecular world? , Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 9, 1998, pp. 437-447
  • Rooting molecular trees: problems and approaches . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 51, 1994, pp. 279-292
  • Across Tibet by jeep, pony and foot , in PJ Whybrow (Ed.) Travels with the Fossil Hunters , Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 1-22

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Smith, J. Gallemi, C. Jeffery, G. Ernst, PD Ward Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous - Tertiary extinction event . Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology), Vol. 55, 1999, pp. 81-137. Smith, Jeffery Selectivity of extinction among sea-urchins at the end Cretaceous period , Nature, Volume 392, 1998, pp. 69-71. McLeod, Smith, et al. a. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Faunal Transition . Journal of the Geological Society, London, Volume 154, 1997, pp. 265-292.
  2. ↑ Smith Echinoderm roots , Nature, Volume 430, 2004, p. 411
  3. ↑ e.g. Smith, KJ Peterson Dating the time of origin of major clades: molecular clocks and the fossil record , Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Science Volume 30, 2002, pp. 65-88
  4. ^ Smith, JJ Austin Can geologically ancient DNA be recovered from the fossil record? , Geoscientist, Volume 7, 1997, pp. 8-11. JJ Austin, AJ Ross, Smith, R. Fortey, RH Thomas Problems of reproducibility - does geologically ancient DNA survive in amber-preserved insects? , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Volume 264, 1997, pp. 467-474. Smith, Austin, Thomas Palaeontology in a Molecular World: the Search for Authentic Ancient DNA . Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, 1997, pp. 303-306
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Andrew B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1954