Kenneth D. Rose

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Kenneth David Rose (born June 21, 1949 in Newark , New Jersey) is an American vertebrate paleontologist specializing in mammals.

Rose graduated from Yale University (Bachelor's in 1974) and Harvard University (Master's in 1974), and received her PhD in Geology and Paleontology from the University of Michigan in 1979 . As a post-doctoral student he was a Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and from 1980 Assistant Professor at the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University , where he has a full professorship in anatomy from 1990. Since 1981 he has also been a research associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Research Associate since 1989).

He deals with early Cenozoic mammals , their systematics, evolution, geographical spread and diversification of species, the functional anatomy of teeth and skeleton, and the use of mammalian fossils in stratigraphy .

He found evidence (in the post-cranial skeleton) of a relationship between fossil progenitor ungulates of the Eocene / Paleocene of North America and extinct elephants (Macroscelidea), which contradicts a purely African origin of the early representatives of the higher mammals ( Afrotheria , to which the elephants belonged , which had been generally accepted up until then) be) speaks.

From 1987 to 1990 he was co-editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. In 2007 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society .

He has been married since 1981 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Kenneth D. Rose, David Archibald (Eds.): The Rise of Placental Mammals. Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 2005

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Zack, Penkrot, Bloch, Rose: Affinities of 'hyopsodontids' to elephant shrews and a Holarctic origin of Afrotheria , Nature, Vol 434, 2005, pp 497-501, Abstract
personal data
SURNAME Rose, Kenneth D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rose, Kenneth David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)