Bruce S. Lieberman

Bruce Smith Lieberman (* 1966 ) is an American paleontologist (paleontology of invertebrates, macroevolution).

Lieberman studied at Harvard University ( Bachelor in Geology 1988 summa cum laude ) and at Columbia University , where he received his Master’s degree in 1991 and his PhD with Niles Eldredge in 1994 ( The evolution of the Hamiltonian Group Fauna and a hierarchical perspective on evolutionary analysis ). As a post-doctoral student, he was with Elizabeth Vrba at Yale University and with Andrew Knoll at Harvard. From 1998 he was at the University of Kansas , from 2002 as Associate Professor and from 2007 as Professor . After he was head of the Invertebrate Paleontology Department at the associated Natural History Museum (and from 2005 to 2007 also the Paleontological Institute, which is linked to the publication of the Treatise on Intervertebrate Paleontology ), he was Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum at the University of from 2007 Kansas.

He deals with patterns in macroevolution especially in trilobites and paleoecology, paleobiogeography and paleoclimatology (in connection with plate tectonics ). In 2002 he received the Charles Schuchert Award .

Fonts

• with EO Wiley Phylogenetics , 2nd edition, Wiley 2011
• with RA Kaesler Prehistoric Life - Evolution and the fossil record , Wiley / Blackwell 2010
• with A. Stigall Rode (Editor) Paleobiogeography , Paleontological Society Papers, No. 11, Paleontological Society, Lawrence, Kansas, 2005
• Paleobiogegraphy: Using fossils to study global change, plate tectonics and evolution , Plenum Press, Kluwer 2000
• with Edgecombe, Adrain (editor) Fossils, Phylogeny and Form: an analytical approach , Plenum Press / Kluwer 2001
• Article with Eldredge Punctuated Equilibria in Scholarpedia

Web links

• Homepage
• Biography at the Biodiversity Instiute and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, with CV
• Biography on the Trilobita pages