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标题: 克里斯托弗-比尔德 古生物学家
Christopher Beard
Paleontologist | Class of 2000
Title
Paleontologist
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Age
38 at time of award
Area of Focus
Ecology and Evolutionary/Environmental Biology, Paleontology
Website
University of Kansas: Christopher Beard
Published July 1, 2000
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER'S WORK
Christopher Beard is a paleontologist who investigates the evolutionary origins of mammals, especially primates.

One line of Beard’s research attempts to clarify the phylogenetic relationships among early radiations of mammals through North America.  As a student, he offered the hypothesis that an extinct group of mammals—the plesiadapiforms—used gliding for locomotion.  This characteristic links the group more closely to modern flying lemurs than to modern primates, and suggests that they were not direct predecessors of primates (as previously thought) but rather shared a common ancestor with them.  In China, Beard has identified tiny fossils that may be remains of anthropoid primates, predating the earliest known African form; this led him to postulate that early anthropoids originated in Asia rather than Africa.

BIOGRAPHY

Beard is curator and head of the Section of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.  He is the author of The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans (2004).

Beard received an A.B. (1984) from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. (1989) from the School of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University.

RECENT NEWS
Christopher Beard currently serves as Foundation Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Senior Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Kansas. A recent focus of Beard’s research has been to illuminate the colonization of Africa by early anthropoid primates and other mammals that originate in Asia. In doing so, Beard has collaborated with colleagues on paleontological field projects in China, Myanmar, Libya, and Turkey.

Updated July 2015



克里斯托弗-比尔德
古生物学家 | 2000级
职称
古生物学家
工作地点
匹兹堡,宾夕法尼亚州
年龄
获奖时38岁
重点领域
生态学和进化/环境生物学, 古生物学
网站
堪萨斯大学。克里斯托弗-比尔德
2000年7月1日出版
关于克里斯托弗的工作
克里斯托弗-比尔德是一位古生物学家,研究哺乳动物,特别是灵长类动物的进化起源。

比尔德的研究方向之一是试图澄清通过北美的哺乳动物的早期辐射之间的系统发育关系。 作为一名学生,他提出了一个假设,即一个已灭绝的哺乳动物群体--plesiadapiforms--使用滑翔运动。 这一特征将这一群体与现代飞狐猴的关系比与现代灵长类动物的关系更为密切,并表明它们不是灵长类动物的直接前身(如以前所认为的),而是与灵长类动物有一个共同的祖先。 在中国,比尔德发现了一些微小的化石,这些化石可能是拟人灵长类动物的遗骸,比已知的最早的非洲形式要早;这使他推测早期拟人动物起源于亚洲而不是非洲。

个人简历

比尔德是匹兹堡卡内基自然历史博物馆的馆长和古脊椎动物科的负责人。 他是《猎杀黎明之猴》的作者。揭示猴子、猿类和人类的起源》(2004年)。

比尔德在北卡罗来纳大学获得学士学位(1984年),在约翰霍普金斯大学医学院获得博士学位(1989年)。

最近的新闻
克里斯托弗-比尔德目前在堪萨斯大学担任生态学和进化生物学基金会特聘教授和脊椎动物古生物学高级馆员。比尔德最近的研究重点是阐明早期拟人灵长类动物和其他起源于亚洲的哺乳动物在非洲的殖民情况。在此过程中,比尔德与同事们合作,在中国、缅甸、利比亚和土耳其进行了古生物实地考察项目。

2015年7月更新




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