James W. Valentine

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James William Valentine (born November 10, 1926 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American geologist , evolutionary biologist and paleontologist .

life and work

Valentine studied at Phillips University in Enid ( bachelor's degree in 1951) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with a master's degree in 1954 and a doctorate in geology in 1958. He was then assistant professor and associate professor at the University of Missouri , interrupted from 1962 to 1963 as a Fulbright Scholar in Australia . In 1964 he became an associate professor and then a professor at the University of California, Davis . From 1977 to 1990 he was Professor of Geology at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Since 1990 he has been Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley , where he has been Professor Emeritus from 1993. There he is associated with the Museum of Paleontology (as curator) and the Center for Integrative Genomics.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he studied marine mollusks of the Pleistocene in California and their paleoecology and biogeography. At the end of the 1960s, he developed a hierarchical approach to patterns in biodiversity, especially marine invertebrate fossils, and the influence of plate tectonics on biodiversity. From the 1970s onwards he dealt with the origin of the main tribal lines ( Phyla ) in the animal kingdom, set out in his book On the origin of Phyla 2004, and investigated (partly with Francisco Ayala ) the genetic variability of marine organisms and in 1976 raised the importance of Investigation of gene regulation for the explanation of different evolutionary speeds in paleontology. With Dobzhansky, Stebbins and Ayala he wrote a standard work on evolution.

Valentine is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America. 1973/74 he was President of the Paleontological Society, whose medal he received. In 2004 he received the Lapworth Medal . He was a Guggenheim Fellow.

He has been married to Diane Mondragon since 1987 and has a son and daughter.

literature

  • David Jablonski , Jere H. Lipps, Douglas H. Erwin (Eds.): Evolutionary Paleobiology. In Honor of James W. Valentine. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 1996, ISBN 0-226-38911-1 .

Fonts

  • On the Origin of Phyla. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 2004, ISBN 0-226-84548-6 .
  • as editor: Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns. Profiles In Macroevolution. (Proceedings of a Symposium held on June 21, 1982 during the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the University of California, Santa Barbara). Princeton University Press et al., Princeton NJ 1985, ISBN 0-691-08374-6 .
  • with Francisco J. Ayala : Evolving. The Theory And Processes Of Organic Evolution. Benjamin / Cummings, Menlo Park CA 1979, ISBN 0-8053-0310-3 .
  • with Theodosius Dobzhansky , G. Ledyard Stebbins , Francisco Ayala : Evolution. Freeman, San Francisco CA 1977, ISBN 0-7167-0572-9 .
  • Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ 1973, ISBN 0-13-293720-4 .
  • with Robert R. Rowland: Pleistocene invertebrates from northwestern Baja California Del Norte, Mexico (= Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Vol. 36, No. 17, ISSN  0068-547X ). California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA 1969.
  • Paleoecologic molluscan geography of the Californian Pleistocene (= University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. Vol. 34, No. 7, ISSN  0068-645X ). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1961.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Valentine Patterns of taxonomic and ecological structure of the shelf benthos during the phanerozoic , Paleontology, Volume 12, 1969, pp. 684-709
  3. ↑ Eldredge Moores, Valentine, Plate-tectonic regulation of faunal diversity and sea level: a model , Nature, Volume 228, 1970, pp. 657-659 Abstract , Valentine Evolutionary Paleoecology of the marine biosphere , 1973
personal data
SURNAME Valentine, James W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valentine, James William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California