Peter Houde
Peter W. Houde (* 1956 ) is an American vertebrate paleontologist who is particularly concerned with the evolution of birds and, to a lesser extent, mammals.
Life
Houde studied from 1974 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a bachelor's degree in 1979 (whereby he also studied at Princeton University in 1978/79 ) and from 1980 at Howard University , where he received his doctorate in anatomy in 1985, where he was at the Smithsonian Institution in 1984/85 . He is Professor of Biology at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at their museum.
In 1998 he was accepted into the American Ornithologists Union and in 2011 its Fellow.
He examines the relationships between today's birds, among other things with DNA analysis, and found that at least five orders are polyphyletic according to the traditional description (such as the crane birds ). He is the first to describe the Lithornithidae and examined the ancient ostrich Palaeotis from the Geiseltal. His studies of the Lithornitidae led him to deduce a polyphyletic origin of ratites .
The fossil mammal Mimoperadectes houdei was named after him in 2009.
Fonts
- Paleognathous birds from the early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere , Cambridge / Massachusetts, Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club No. 22 (editor RA Paynter), 1988 (148 pages, therein description of the lithornithiformes)
- with Hartmut Haubold Palaeotis weigelti restudied: a small middle Eocene ostrich , Palaeovertebrata 17, 1987, pp. 27-42
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Houde Gruiformes , in SB Hedges, S. Kumar (Ed.) Timetree of Life , Oxford University Press 2009
- ↑ Houde Ancestors of ostriches found in the Northern Hemisphere suggest a new hypothesis for the origin of ratites , Nature 324 1986, 563-565
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Houde, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Houde, Peter W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American vertebrate paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |