David Jablonski

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David Jablonski (born June 23, 1953 in New York City ) is an American paleontologist .

Jablonski studied at Columbia University ( Bachelor 1974) and Yale University , where he received his master’s degree in 1976 and his doctorate in 1979. He was then at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and the University of California, Berkeley (1980–1982 as Miller Research Fellow). From 1982 he was Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona . From 1985 he was Associate Professor and from 1989 Professor of Paleobiology at the University of Chicago . From 1993 he was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London . He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.

Jablonski conducted research on macroevolution, that is, patterns in the evolution of fossils, evolutionary breakthroughs and their causes and mass extinctions (especially Cretaceous-Tertiary).

From 1983 to 1985 and 1986 to 1988 he was Associate Editor of Paleobiology and 1984 to 1986 of Evolution . In 1988 he received the Charles Schuchert Award and in 2017 the Paleontological Society Medal . In 2010 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He is also a Fellow of the Paleontological Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Fonts

  • Editor with Rhodes W. Fairbridge: The Encyclopedia of Paleontology (= Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Vol. 7). Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg PA 1979, ISBN 0-87933-185-2 .
  • Editor with David M. Raup : Patterns and Processes in the History of Life (= Life Sciences Research Report. Vol. 36). Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Patterns and Processes in the History of Life, Berlin 1985, June 16 - 21. Springer, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 3-540-15965-7 .
  • Editor with Others: Evolutionary Paleobiology. In Honor of James W. Valentine . University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 1996, ISBN 0-226-38911-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).

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personal data
SURNAME Jablonski, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City