David Pilbeam

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David Roger Pilbeam (born November 21, 1940 in Brighton , United Kingdom ) is a British-American paleoanthropologist and since 1990 Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution at Harvard University in Cambridge ( Massachusetts , USA ).

Life

David Pilbeam grew up in very poor circumstances, both parents had to leave school at the age of 14. However, they provided him with a good education, and after graduating from high school , he received a scholarship to study at Cambridge . Instead of studying medicine, as initially planned, he decided to study biological anthropology . Following the acquisition of Master -Grads at the University of Cambridge in 1966 changed Pilbeam thanks to a second scholarship to Yale University , where he in 1967 in the laboratory of Elwyn L. Simons of the doctoral degree was awarded (Ph.D.). In 1981 he also received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard University .

From 1981 he was curator for paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology . Pilbeam was from 1990 to 1996 and has been director of the museum again since 2011. Since 1990 he has been the Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution at Harvard University.

In 1997, Pilbeam was naturalized in the United States .

research

David Pilbeam describes himself as interested in a variety of topics relating to the evolution of primates and specifically the evolution of humans . He explored, among others, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan and in Iraq, the once widespread in Europe and Asia, surviving as fossils early ancestors of modern apes from the Miocene . For example, he made a major contribution to clarifying the phylogenetic classification of Ramapithecus .

Among his most significant discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology are fossils of Sivapithecus and his involvement in the first description of Morotopithecus , Sahelanthropus and Australopithecus bahrelghazali .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • with Elwyn L. Simons : Some Problems of Hominid Classification. In: American Scientist . Volume 53, No. 2, 1965, pp. 237-259.
  • with Elwyn L. Simons: Preliminary Revision of the Dryopithecinae (Pongidae, Anthropoidea). In: Folia Primatologica. Volume 3, 1965, pp. 81-152, doi: 10.1159 / 000155026 .
  • Notes on Ramapithecus, the earliest known hominid, and Dryopithecus. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Volume 25, No. 1, 1966, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1002 / ajpa.1330250102 .
  • Gigantopithecus and the Origins of Hominidae. In: Nature . Volume 225, 1970, pp. 516-519, doi: 10.1038 / 225516a0 .
  • with Elwyn L. Simons and Peter Andrews : Cenozoic apes. Chapter 8 in: Vincent J. Maglio and HBS Cooke (Eds.): Evolution of African Mammals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London (England), 1978, pp. 120-146.
  • Rethinking human origins . In: Russell L. Ciochon and John G. Fleagle (Eds.): Primate Evolution and Human Origins. Aldine de Gruyter, New York 1987, ISBN 0-202-01175-5 .
  • with Steve Jones , Robert Martin and Sarah Bunney (Eds.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-32370-3 .
  • The ascent of man: an introduction to human evolution. MacMillan, 1993, ISBN 978-0-02-395270-8
  • with Daniel E. Lieberman and Bernard Wood : Homoplasy and early Homo: an analysis of the evolutionary relationships of H. habilis sensu stricto and H. rudolfensis. In: Journal of Human Evolution . Volume 30, 1996, pp. 97-120, doi: 10.1006 / jhev.1996.0008 .
  • Genetic and Morphological Records of the Hominoidea and Hominid Origins: A Synthesis. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Volume 5, No. 1, 1996, pp. 155-168, doi: 10.1006 / mpev.1996.0010 .
  • Hominoid systematics: The soft evidence. In: PNAS . Volume 97, No. 20, 2000, pp. 10684-10686, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.210390497 .
  • with John C. Barry, Michèle E. Morgan and Lawrence J. Flynn: Faunal and Environmental Change in the Late Miocene Siwaliks of Northern Pakistan. In: Paleobiology. Volume 28, No. S2, 2002, pp. 1-71, doi : 10.1666 / 0094-8373 (2002) 28 [1: FAECIT] 2.0.CO; 2 .
  • with Sandra I. Madar, Michael D. Rose, Jay Kelley and Laura MacLatchy: New Sivapithecus postcranial specimens from the Siwaliks of Pakistan. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 42, No. 6, 2002, pp. 705-752, doi: 0.1006 / jhev.2002.0554 .
  • with Nathan Young: Hominoid evolution: synthesizing disparate data. In: Comptes Rendus Palevol. Volume 3, No. 4, 2004, pp. 305-321, doi: 10.1016 / j.crpv.2004.01.006 .
  • The anthropoid postcranial axial skeleton: Comments on development, variation, and evolution. In: Journal of Experimental Zoology - B. Volume 302B, No. 3, 2004, pp. 195-341, doi: 10.1002 / jez.b.22 .
  • with various others: New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad. In: Nature. Volume 434, 2005, pp. 752-755, doi: 10.1038 / nature03392 .
  • with Franck Guy, Daniel E. Lieberman et al .: Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene hominid from Chad) cranium. In: PNAS. Volume 102, No. 52, 2005, pp. 18836-18841, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0509564102
  • with: Jeanne Sept (Ed.): Casting the Net Wide: Papers in Honor of Glynn Isaac and His Approach to Human Origins Research. Oxbow Books, 2012 (= American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph), ISBN 978-1-84217-454-8
  • with various others: Continental gateways and the dynamics of mammalian faunas. In: Comptes Rendus Palevol: Volume 15, No. 7, 2016, pp. 763-779, doi: 10.1016 / j.crpv.2015.09.004 .
  • with various others: Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia. In: Comptes Rendus Palevol. Volume 15, No. 7, 2016, pp. 877-887, doi: 10.1016 / j.crpv.2015.09.015 .
  • with Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham (Eds.): Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Harvard University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-674-96795-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Portrait: David R. Pilbeam. On: thecrimson.com June 4, 2008.
  2. ^ Harvard University: David Pilbeam. From: bsc.harvard.edu , accessed September 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Inside the Peabody Museum: August 2011: New Director at the Peabody. From: peabody.harvard.edu , accessed September 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b David Pilbeam. From: fas.harvard.edu , accessed September 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ David Pilbeam et al .: New hominoid primates from the Siwaliks of Pakistan and their bearing on hominoid evolution. In: Nature . Volume 270, 1977, pp. 689-695, doi: 10.1038 / 270689a0
  6. ^ Daniel L. Gebo, Laura MacLatchy, Robert Kityo, Alan Deino, John Kingston, and David Pilbeam: A Hominoid Genus from the Early Miocene of Uganda. In: Science . Volume 276, No. 5311, 1997, pp. 401-404, doi: 10.1126 / science.276.5311.401
  7. ↑ Michel Brunet , Franck Guy, David Pilbeam et al .: A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. In: Nature. Volume 418, 2002, pp. 145-151, doi: 10.1038 / nature00879
  8. ↑ Michel Brunet, Alain Beauvilain, Yves Coppens , Emile Heintz, Aladji HE Moutaye and David Pilbeam: Australopithecus bahrelghazali, une nouvelle espèce d'Hominidé ancien de la région de Koro Toro (Tchad). In: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Series IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes. Volume 322, No. 10, 1996, pp. 907-913.
  9. ^ Fyssen Foundation: International Prize. From: fondation-fyssen.org , accessed on September 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pilbeam, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilbeam, David Roger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleoanthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , UK