Douglas Hamilton Erwin

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Douglas Hamilton Erwin (born March 27, 1958 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American paleontologist . He is the Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) and holds a research professorship at the Santa Fe Institute .

Life

Roman snail (Helix pomatia), typical representative of the gastropod

Erwin graduated from Colgate University with a bachelor's degree in 1980 and the University of California, Santa Barbara , where he received his PhD in geology in 1985. He was then an assistant and later associate professor at the University of Michigan before joining the Smithsonian in 1990. In 2001 he was visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge .

He looks at turning points in evolution such as the Cambrian Explosion , Permian mass extinction, and the subsequent recovery of life on earth, as well as the tribal history of Paleozoic gastropods .

In 2009 he was President of the Paleontological Society . In 1996 he received the Charles Schuchert Award . He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • with James Valentine : The Cambrian Explosion: the construction of animal biodiversity. Roberts and Company 2013
  • Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago. Princeton University Press 2006
  • The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian. Columbia University Press 1993.
  • Editor with David Jablonski , Jere H. Lipps : Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine. University of Chicago Press 1996
  • Editor with Robert Anstey: New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record. Wallflower Press 1995
  • with EH Davidson: Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans. Science, Vol. 311, 2006, pp. 796-800
  • The origin of bodyplans. American Zoologist, Vol. 39, 1999, pp. 617-629
  • with James Valentine; David Jablonski: The origin of animal body plans. American Scientist, Vol. 85, 1997, pp. 126-137
  • The mother of mass extinctions. Scientific American, Volume 275, Jan 1996, pp 72-78
  • with Derek Briggs, Frederick Joseph Collier, Chip Clark: The fossils of the Burgess Shale. Smithsonian Institution Press 1994
  • The Permo-Triassic Extinction. Nature, Volume 367, 1994, pp. 231-236

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Erwin, Douglas Hamilton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erwin, Douglas H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States