Michael S. Engel
Michael Scott Engel (born September 24, 1971 in Creve Coeur (Missouri) ) is an American paleontologist and entomologist . Engel deals with fossil insects and the taxonomy of insects.
Engel graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in physiology, cell biology and chemistry in 1993 and received her PhD in entomology from Cornell University in 1998 with James K. Liebherr . The topic of his dissertation was Phylogeny, classification and evolutionary ethology of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) . He then went to the American Museum of Natural History before returning to the University of Kansas as a professor in 2000.
He is Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology and Senior Curator of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas (Biodiversity Institute).
He dealt mainly with the phylogeny of bees, but also other groups such as termites (Isoptera) and ground lice (Zoraptera). He first described over 600 new species of living and fossil insects and other arthropods. Several species of insects are named after him. With David A. Grimaldi he wrote a textbook on insect paleontology.
In 2006 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2008 he received the Charles Schuchert Award . He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Paleontological Society . In 2014 he received the University of Kansas Scholarly Achievement Award for his research into the origin of insect flight.
Fonts
- with K. Krishna, DA Grimaldi, V. Krishna :. Treatise on the Isoptera of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 377, 2013, pp. 1-2704.
- with SR Davis, J. Prokop: Insect wings: The evolutionary developmental origins of Nature's first flyers. In: A. Minelli, G. Boxshall, G. Fusco (Eds.) Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molecules, Development, Morphology, 2013, pp. 269-298
- with A. Nel u. a .: The earliest known holometabolous insects. Nature 503, 2013, pp. 257-261.
- with D. Michez, M. Vanderplanck: Fossil bees and their plant associates. In S. Patiny (Ed.), Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 103-164.
- with KV Krombein: Hymenoptera. In . (Ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (11th Edition), Volume 8, 2012, pp. 787-798
- with R. Pérez-de la Fuente and others: Early evolution and ecology of camouflage in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Volume 109, 2012, pp. 21414-21419.
- with DA Grimaldi, K. Krishna: Termites (Isoptera): Their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance. American Museum Novitates, 3650, 2009, pp. 1-27.
- with M. Ohl: The fossil history of bees and their closest relatives (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Denisia, 20, 2007, pp. 687-700.
- with D. Grimaldi: Evolution of the Insects, Cambridge University Press 2005
- with D. Grimaldi: New light shed on the oldest insect. Nature, Volume 427, 2004, pp. 627-630.
- A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 259, 2001, pp. 1-192.
- with DA Grimaldi: The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). American Museum Novitates 3362, 2000, pp. 1-20.
- A new interpretation of the oldest fossil bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae). American Museum Novitates, 3296, 2000, pp. 1-11.
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| SURNAME | Engel, Michael S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engel, Michael Scott (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Creve Coeur, Missouri |