K. Christopher Beard

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According to Wikipedia, K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, an expert on the primate fossil record and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award Winner. Beard's research is reshaping critical debates about the evolutionary origins of mammals, including primates, routinely questioning current thinking about their geographical origins. Dr. Beard is the former Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Distinguished Foundation Professor, Senior Curator at the University of Kansas. He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China. Dr. Beard also authored the book The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Beard was also part of the research teams that discovered Teilhardina, the earliest primate ever found in North America, and Eosimias, one of the earliest higher primates yet discovered. He worked with NASA to scan a Tyrannosaurus rex skull. Beard received his PhD from the Functional Anatomy and Evolution Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1989.

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A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China (1994) (216)
The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution (2013) (190)
Gliding behaviour and palaeoecology of the alleged primate family Paromomyidae (Mammalia, Dermoptera) (1990) (185)
Interrelationships among primate higher taxa (1988) (152)
Earliest Complete Dentition of an Anthropoid Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China (1996) (151)
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Primatomorpha, with Special Reference to Dermoptera (1993) (132)
Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids (2010) (119)
Intercontinental dispersal of Holarctic land mammals near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary; paleogeographic, paleoclimatic and biostratigraphic implications (1999) (100)
The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (2008) (95)
Laonastes and the "Lazarus Effect" in Recent Mammals (2006) (91)
New wrist bones of Proconsul africanus and P. nyanzae from Rusinga Island, Kenya. (1986) (85)
First skulls of the Early Eocene primate Shoshonius cooperi and the anthropoid-tarsier dichotomy (1991) (81)
Origin and Evolution of Gliding in Early Cenozoic Dermoptera (Mammalia, Primatomorpha) (1993) (72)
The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates (2000) (72)
Revision of the Wind River faunas, Early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 14. Postcranium of Shoshonius cooperi (Mammalia: Primates) (1999) (68)
Cranial Anatomy of Shoshonius and the Antiquity of Anthropoidea (1994) (66)
Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa (2012) (65)
The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China. (2004) (62)
Middle Eocene primate tarsals from China: implications for haplorhine evolution. (2001) (62)
Portrait of a late Paleocene (early Clarkforkian) terrestrial ecosystem; Big Multi Quarry and associated strata, Washakie Basin, southwestern Wyoming (1998) (60)
Escherichia coli gene induction by alkylation treatment. (1986) (59)
Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution (2016) (59)
NEW LATE PALEOCENE RODENTS (MAMMALIA) FROM BIG MULTI QUARRY, WASHAKIE BASIN, WYOMING (1996) (55)
A new primate from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar and the monophyly of Burmese amphipithecids (2009) (53)
Early Wasatchian Mammals of the Red Hot Local Fauna, Uppermost Tuscahoma Formation, Lauderdale County, Mississippi (2009) (53)
Fossil primate hands: A review and an evolutionary inquiry emphasizing early forms (1991) (53)
Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier. (2006) (50)
Late eocene sivaladapid primate from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. (1998) (48)
The smallest primates. (2000) (48)
A new tarkadectine primate from the Eocene of Inner Mongolia, China: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (2010) (48)
New Sivaladapid Primates from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar and the Anthropoid Status of Amphipithecidae (2007) (47)
The earliest fossil evidence for sexual dimorphism in primates. (1990) (46)
Early Paleogene stratigraphic sequences, mammalian evolution and its response to environmental changes in Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China (2010) (46)
New Stratigraphic Data from the Erlian Basin: Implications for the Division, Correlation, and Definition of Paleogene Lithological Units In Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) (2007) (44)
Phylogenetic and biogeographic significance of the tarsiiform primate Asiomomys changbaicus from the eocene of Jilin Province, people's Republic of China (1991) (43)
Carpal anatomy of Smilodectes gracilis (Adapiformes, Notharctinae) and its significance for lemuriform phylogeny (1988) (40)
A hominoid proximal humerus from the Early Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya (1988) (39)
East of Eden at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary (2002) (37)
Systematic lateral variation in the distribution of fossil mammals in alluvial paleosols, lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Wyoming (1990) (37)
The first Asian plesiadapoids (Mammalia: Primatomorpha) (1995) (37)
New hominoid facial skeleton from the Early Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya, and its bearing on the relationship between Proconsul nyanzae and Proconsul africanus (1988) (34)
New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae (1988) (33)
Significance of primate petrosal from Middle Eocene fissure-fillings at Shanghuang, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China (1995) (33)
Discovery of the First Early Cenozoic Euprimate (Mammalia) from Inner Mongolia (2007) (32)
Mammalian Biogeography and Anthropoid Origins (2006) (30)
Zhailimeryx, A New Lophiomerycid Artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Late Middle Eocene of Central China and the Early Evolution of Ruminants (2000) (27)
Cementum annulus counts provide a means for age determination in Macaca mulatta (primates, anthropoidea). (1984) (26)
A primitive vespertilionoid bat from the early Eocene of central Wyoming (1992) (26)
An unusual assemblage of diminutive plesiadapiforms (Mammalia, ?Primates) from the early Eocene of the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming (1989) (25)
NEW MATERIAL OF ALAGOMYIDAE (MAMMALIA, GLIRES) FROM THE LATE PALEOCENE SUBENG LOCALITY, INNER MONGOLIA (2007) (25)
RODENTS OF THE FAMILY CYLINDRODONTIDAE (MAMMALIA) FROM THE EARLIEST EOCENE OF THE TUSCAHOMA FORMATION, MISSISSIPPI (2007) (24)
Talar morphology, phylogenetic affinities, and locomotor adaptation of a large-bodied amphipithecid primate from the late middle eocene of Myanmar. (2010) (24)
Early Wasatchian Mammals From the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi: Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications (2001) (23)
Do we need the newly proposed order Proprimates (1990) (23)
Taxonomic status of purported primate frontal bones from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar. (2005) (22)
Nanotitan shanghuangensis, gen. et sp. nov.: the smallest known brontothere (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) (1996) (21)
New chiropterans from the middle Eocene of Shanghuang (Jiangsu Province, Coastal China): new insight into the dawn horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae) in Asia (2014) (21)
Out of Asia: Anthropoid Origins and the Colonization of Africa (2016) (21)
A New Eocene Rodent from the Lower Arshanto Formation in the Nuhetingboerhe (Camp Margetts) Area, Inner Mongolia (2007) (20)
Jemezius, a new omomyid primate from the early Eocene of northwestern New Mexico (1987) (20)
New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents (2015) (20)
A survey of fossil primate hands (1993) (19)
Dawn of the age of mammals in Asia (1998) (19)
A first metatarsal of Hoanghonius stehlini from the late middle eocene of Shanxi province, China. (1999) (18)
Tectono-stratigraphy of the Orhaniye Basin, Turkey: Implications for collision chronology and Paleogene biogeography of central Anatolia (2017) (17)
Artiodactyls from the Pondaung Formation (Myanmar): new data and reevaluation of the South Asian Faunal Province during the Middle Eocene (2007) (17)
A NEW SMALL DICHOBUNID ARTIODACTYL FROM SHANGHUANG (MIDDLE EOCENE, EASTERN CHINA): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF PROTO-SELENODONTS IN ASIA (2004) (17)
The phylogenetic affinities of the Pondaung tali. (2010) (16)
Exceptional new dentitions of the diminutive plesiadapiforms Tinimomys and Niptomomys (Mammalia), with comments on the upper incisors of Plesiadapiformes (1993) (16)
A New Early Eocene Arctostylopid (Arctostylopida, Mammalia) From the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China (2008) (15)
Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time (2018) (15)
A New Species of Gomphos (Glires, Mammalia) from the Eocene of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China (2009) (15)
Anatomy of the bony pelvis of a relatively large-bodied strepsirrhine primate from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (central Myanmar). (2008) (15)
Collision Chronology Along the İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan Suture Zone: Insights From the Sarıcakaya Basin, Western Anatolia (2019) (14)
The phylogenetic significance of strepsirhinism in Paleogene primates (1988) (14)
Species diversity and postcranial anatomy of eocene primates from Shanghuang, China (2012) (13)
A new early Oligocene mammal fauna from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: Biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications (2015) (13)
Proximal femoral anatomy of a sivaladapid primate from the late middle Eocene Pondaung formation (central Myanmar). (2008) (13)
New hand bones of the early Miocene hominoid Proconsul and their implications for the evolution of the hominoid wrist (1993) (12)
Tarsal morphology of the pleuraspidotheriid mammal Hilalia from the middle Eocene of Turkey (2017) (12)
New Micromomyid Plesiadapiforms (Mammalia, Euarchonta) from the Late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, Washakie Basin, Wyoming (2012) (11)
Middle-Eocene artiodactyls from Shanghuang (Jiangsu Province, Coastal China) and the diversity of basal dichobunoids in Asia (2008) (11)
A new species of Apidium (Anthropoidea, Parapithecidae) from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: First record of Oligocene primates from Libya. (2016) (11)
A stem bat (Chiroptera: Palaeochiropterygidae) from the late middle Eocene of northern Anatolia: implications for the dispersal and palaeobiology of early bats (2018) (10)
A Haplorhine First Metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China (2008) (10)
Uniquely derived upper molar morphology of Eocene Amphipithecidae (Primates: Anthropoidea): homology and phylogeny. (2013) (9)
Paleocene Hapalodectes (Mammalia: Mesonychia) from Subeng, Nei Mongol: Further Evidence of "East of Eden" Dispersal at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary (2010) (8)
Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution [X24663] (matrix) (2017) (8)
First myliobatiform teeth (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) from the Pondaung formation (late middle Eocene) of Central Myanmar (2008) (8)
Primate Humeral Remains from the Middle Eocene of China (2007) (8)
A NEW BUNOSELENODONT ARTIODACTYL FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF CHINA AND THE EARLY RECORD OF SELENODONT ARTIODACTYLS IN ASIA (2005) (7)
Nanotitanops, a new name for Nanotitan Qi and Beard, 1996, not Nanotitan Sharov, 1968 (1998) (7)
Primate Tibiae from the Middle Eocene Shanghuang Fissure-Fillings of Eastern China (2008) (7)
Distal phalanges of Eosimias and Hoanghonius. (2015) (6)
Biogeographic Provincialism Shown by Afro-Arabian Mammals during the Middle Cenozoic: Climate Change, Red Sea Rifting and Global Eustasy (2017) (6)
Revision of the Wind River faunas, Early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 12. New species of omomyid Primates (Mammalia: Primates: Omomyidae) and omomyid taxonomic composition across the Early-Middle Eocene boundary (1992) (6)
The Early Eocene Rodent Tuscahomys (Cylindrodontidae) from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming: Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Paleoecology (2012) (6)
An omomyid primate from the Pontide microcontinent of north-central Anatolia: Implications for sweepstakes dispersal of terrestrial mammals during the Eocene (2020) (5)
A new species of Carpocristes (Mammalia: Primatomorpha) from the middle Tiffanian of the Bison Basin, Wyoming, with notes on carpolestid phylogeny (2000) (4)
Nasolacrimal anatomy and haplorhine origins. (2018) (4)
Outrage at high price paid for a fossil (2009) (3)
Tectonic Evolution of the Izmir-Ankara Suture Zone in Northwest Turkey using Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Zircon Lu-Hf Isotopic Tracers (2017) (3)
THE FIRST EARLY EOCENE MAMMAL FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA:AN OMOMYID PRIMATE FROM THE BASHI FORMATION,LAUDERDALE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI (2011) (3)
Sedimentary Provenance From the Evolving Forearc‐to‐Foreland Central Sakarya Basin, Western Anatolia Reveals Multi‐Phase Intercontinental Collision (2021) (3)
Reply to Gingerich et al.: Oldest North American primate (2008) (3)
Dentition of Subengius mengi (Mammalia: Plesiadapoidea) and a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Asian Carpolestidae (2016) (3)
Northernmost Global Record for Multituberculata from the Eocene of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada (2014) (3)
Phalangeal morphology of Shanghuang fossil primates. (2017) (2)
Systematics and Paleobiology of Chiromyoides (Mammalia, Plesiadapidae) from the Upper Paleocene of Western North America and Western Europe (2020) (2)
The earliest Asian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) address major gaps in bat evolution (2021) (2)
EARLY EOCENE PERISSODACTYLS FROM THE UPPER NOMOGEN FORMATION OF THE ERLIAN BASIN, INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA (2008) (2)
The smallest primate (1998) (2)
New dentaries of Chiromyoides (Primatomorpha, Plesiadapidae) and a reassessment of the “mammalian woodpecker” ecological niche (2021) (2)
Astragalus of Pondaungimys (Rodentia, Anomaluroidea) from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, central Myanmar (2018) (2)
BULLETIN of CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY MAMMALIAN PALEONTOLOGY ON A GLOBAL STAGE: PAPERS IN HONOR OF MARY R. DAWSON (2007) (2)
Upper molar morphology of the early oligocene egyptian anthropoid Qatrania wingi. (2016) (2)
A new parapithecine (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the early Oligocene of Libya supports parallel evolution of large body size among parapithecids. (2021) (2)
Correction: Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time (2019) (1)
A new carnivoraform from the early Oligocene of Libya: Oldest known record of Carnivoramorpha in Africa (2020) (1)
Early Eocene Bumbanian fauna from the Erlian Basin, inner Mongolia, China and its biochronological implications (2007) (1)
PHYLOGENETIC POSITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SUBENGIUS MENGI (MAMMALIA, CARPOLESTIDAE), THE OLDEST ASIAN PLESIADAPIFORM (2005) (1)
A new species of Carpolestes (Mammalia, Plesiadapoidea) from the late Paleocene of southern Wyoming: assessing changes in size and shape during the evolution of a key anatomical feature (2018) (1)
Chew on this (2017) (1)
19. Anthropoid Origins (2013) (1)
A sedimentary basin record of multi-phase continental collision in western Anatolia Requested Presentation Format : Assigned by Program Committee ( Oral , eLightning , or Poster ) (2020) (0)
Closing the Neotethys Ocean in western Anatolia: Insights from forearc and foreland sedimentary basin records (2021) (0)
ASSEMBLY OF AN ENDEMIC ISLAND BIOTA ON THE EOCENE PONTIDE TERRANE (NORTHERN ANATOLIA): PALEOGEOGRAPHIC AND PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS (2017) (0)
Western Anatolian Record of Subduction Initiation through Collision (2020) (0)
STABLE ISOTOPES ANALYSIS OF ARSINOITHERIUM AND ASSOCIATED FAUNA AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON BIOGEOGRAPHY (2020) (0)
REWORKED MARINE INVERTEBRATE FAUNA (GASTROPODA AND CORAL) FROM THE EOCENE UZUNÇARŞIDERE FORMATION OF CENTRAL ANATOLIA (TURKEY) (2016) (0)
Distal Phalanges and the Origin of Crown-Group Anthropoids (2017) (0)
CHRONOLOGY OF SUTURING AND POST-COLLISIONAL DEFORMATION OF THE ANATOLIAN OROGENY, TURKEY: INSIGHTS FROM GEOCHRONOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE SARICAKAYA BASIN, WESTERN ANATOLIA (2017) (0)
The Weakest Link (2009) (0)
Primate Tibiae from the Shanghuang fissure fillings, China (2008) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2013 (2013) (0)
Scandentia (Tree Shrews) (2001) (0)
THE UTILITY OF DETRITAL RUTILE U-PB AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN ACCRETIONARY OROGENIC SETTINGS (2022) (0)
R. D. Martin: Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction (1991) (0)
Matthew J. Ravosa, Marian Dagosto (eds): Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution (2007) (0)
Mammalian Paleontology on a Global Stage: A Tribute to Mary R. Dawson (2007) (0)
STABLE ISOTOPES IN ENAMEL: HOW IT HAS CHANGED WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT EMBRITHOPODS (2020) (0)
Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution (project) (2017) (0)
Haplorhine evolution in the mid-Eocene of Asia. (2001) (0)
Acknowledgment of reviewers 2014 (2015) (0)
FOREARC AND FORELAND BASIN EVIDENCE FOR PROTRACTED LATE CRETACEOUS-EOCENE COLLISION IN WESTERN ANATOLIA (2021) (0)
Reassessing the dispersal of the earliest crown clade primates across the Northern Hemisphere during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) (2018) (0)
Body Size Estimation for the Shanghuang Petrosal (2017) (0)
Dermoptera (Flying Lemurs) (2001) (0)
Primate evolution (1991) (0)
THE PHYSIOGRAPHIC RESPONSE TO CENOZOIC DRIP TECTONICS IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA (2021) (0)
Dispersal of early haplorhine primates by rafting across Tethys: Discovery of an Eocene omomyid from northern Anatolia (2017) (0)
NEW FOSSILS OF PALAEOAMASIA KANSUI (MAMMALIA, EMBRITHOPODA): IMPLICATIONS FOR EMBRITHOPOD EVOLUTION (2019) (0)
A DIVERSE PRIMATE FAUNA FROM THE EARLY EOCENE OF SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING (2013) (0)
Basal Primatomorpha colonized Ellesmere Island (Arctic Canada) during the hyperthermal conditions of the early Eocene climatic optimum (2023) (0)
New discoveries of fossil tarsiiform primates and their implications for anthropoid origins (2015) (0)
The Geodynamic Implications of Passive Margin Subduction in Northwest Turkey (2023) (0)
Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy, Michael O. Woodburne, ed.; The Paleogene of Asia: Mammals and Stratigraphy, Donald E. Russell and Zhai Ren-jie. [Reviews] (1991) (0)
IDA's a fine fossil, but she's not the missing link (2009) (0)
Cuboid morphology of a basal anthropoid from the Eocene of China. (2017) (0)
New primitive micromomyid plesiadapiform from the Wutu Formation, Shandong Province, China (2017) (0)

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