Steven M. Stanley

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Steven Mitchell Stanley (born November 2, 1941 in Detroit ) is an American paleontologist .

Stanley studied at Princeton University (Bachelor in 1963) and received his PhD from Yale University in 1968 . In 1967 he was Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Rochester and from Assistant Professor and later Professor of Paleobiology at Johns Hopkins University . From 1972 he was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution . In 2005 he retired.

Stanley studied paleoecology and paleoclimatology, patterns and rates of evolution, and mass extinction . In 1972 he developed the hypothesis that the Cambrian Explosion could be explained by the evolutionary pressure of predators, to which the prey animals reacted, for example, with the development of shells, faster swimming or the ability to burrow, which sometimes opened up new habitats for them.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Geological Society of America . In 1977 he received the Charles Schuchert Award from the Paleontological Society and in 2007 the Paleontological Society Medal . In 2008 he received the William H. Twenhofel Award from the Society for Sedimentary Geology and in 2006 the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he was awarded the Penrose Medal . In 1980 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Fonts

  • Historical geology . 2nd Edition. Spectrum, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0569-6 .
  • with David M. Raup Principles of Paleontology , Freeman 1971
  • Earth and Life through time , Freeman 1986, 1989
  • Earth System History , Freeman 1999, 3rd edition 2009
  • Children of the ice age: how a global catastrophe allowed humans to evolve , Harmony Books 1996
  • Exploring earth and life through time , Freeman 1993
  • Macroevolution - patterns and processes , Johns Hopkins University Press 1998
  • Extinction , Scientific American Library, Freeman 1987, German translation: Krisen der Evolution. Species extinction in the history of the earth , Spektrum Verlag 1988 and turning marks of life , Spektrum Verlag 1998
  • The new evolutionary timetable: fossils, genes, and the origin of species , New York, Basic Books 1981
  • with Niles Eldredge (editor) Living fossils , Springer Verlag 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ To receive the NAS medal
personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Steven M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanley, Steven Mitchell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit