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- PhD Paleontology Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lars Werdelin is a Swedish paleontologist specializing in the evolution of mammalian carnivores. One area of interest has been the evolutionary interaction of carnivores and hominins in Africa. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1981.
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- Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations (1996) (592)
- Cenozoic Mammals of Africa (2010) (412)
- The Origin and Evolution of Mammals (2007) (288)
- The Hyaenidae: Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution (1991) (263)
- A revised taxonomy of the Felidae : The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group (2017) (249)
- The spread of grass-dominated habitats in Turkey and surrounding areas during the Cenozoic: Phytolith evidence (2007) (198)
- Plio-Pleistocene Carnivora of eastern Africa: species richness and turnover patterns (2005) (185)
- Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa (1996) (142)
- Provinciality, diversity, turnover, and paleoecology in land mammal faunas of the later Miocene of western Eurasia (1996) (129)
- A revision of the genus Dinofelis (Mammalia, Felidae) (2001) (113)
- The evolution of lynxes (1981) (113)
- Constraint and adaptation in the bone-cracking canid Osteoborus (Mammalia: Canidae) (1989) (110)
- 87Sr/86Sr, Na, F, Sr, and La in skeletal fish debris as a measure of the paleosalinity of fossil-fish habitats (1991) (102)
- The evolution of the scrotum and testicular descent in mammals: a phylogenetic view. (1999) (95)
- Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae) (2010) (94)
- Taxonomy and evolutionary patterns in the fossil Hyaenidae of Europe (2008) (91)
- Carnivoran ecomorphology: a phylogenetic perspective (1996) (87)
- A peculiar climbing Megalonychidae from the Pleistocene of Peru and its implication for sloth history (2007) (85)
- Mio-Pliocene Carnivora from Lothagam, Kenya (2003) (84)
- Jaw geometry and molar morphology in marsupial carnivores: analysis of a constraint and its macroevolutionary consequences (1987) (82)
- An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin (2016) (81)
- Temporal Change in Functional Richness and Evenness in the Eastern African Plio-Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild (2013) (80)
- Evolution of the mane and group-living in the lion ( Panthera leo ): a review (2004) (80)
- Recent Advances on Multidisciplinary Research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium (2004) (78)
- Stature and sexual stature dimorphism in Sweden, from the 10th to the end of the 20th century (2007) (68)
- Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia (2015) (67)
- Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis (2014) (67)
- The evolution of cursorial carnivores in the Tertiary: implications of elbow-joint morphology (2003) (66)
- Studies of fossil hyaenids: the genera Hyaenictis Gaudry and Chasmaporthetes Hay, with a reconsideration of the Hyaenidae of Langebaanweg, South Africa (1994) (61)
- CARNIVORA FROM THE SOUTH TURKWEL HOMINID SITE, NORTHERN KENYA (2000) (53)
- Chronology of Neogene mammal localities (2010) (53)
- THE PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF SOME PHACOPID TRILOBITES (1991) (52)
- Relationships between North and South American Smilodon (1990) (52)
- A review of the genus Chasmaporthetes Hay, 1921 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) (1988) (51)
- The Plio-Pleistocene Ancestor of Wild Dogs, Lycaon sekowei n. sp (2010) (50)
- A new Late Devonian bothriolepid (Placodermi, Antiarcha) from Victoria, with descriptions of other species from the state (1986) (48)
- Morphological patterns in the skulls of cats (1983) (48)
- Comparison of Skull Shape in Marsupial and Placental Carnivores (1986) (45)
- Rapid action in the Palaeogene, the relationship between phenotypic and taxonomic diversification in Coenozoic mammals (2013) (44)
- Small Pleistocene felines of North America (1985) (43)
- Allometry in the placoderm Bothriolepis canadensis and its significance to antiarch evolution (1986) (42)
- Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: New evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province (2002) (42)
- Rediscovering a forgotten canid species (2017) (41)
- Supernumerary teeth in Lynx lynx and the irreversibility of evolution (1987) (39)
- The paleodiet of Giraffidae (2000) (37)
- Patterns of change in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa (2007) (37)
- Studies of fossil hyaenas: the genera Thalassictis Gervais ex Nordmann, Palhyaena Gervais, Hyaenictitherium Kretzoi, Lycyaena Hensel and Palinhyaena Qiu, Huang & Guo (1988) (37)
- How the leopard got its spots: a phylogenetic view of the evolution of felid coat patterns (1997) (36)
- Sabretoothed Carnivores and the Killing of Large Prey (2011) (35)
- Pleistocene Chinese cave hyenas and the recent Eurasian history of the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta (2014) (34)
- Carnivoran Remains from the Malapa Hominin Site, South Africa (2011) (33)
- Paleoecology of the Serengeti-‐Mara ecosystem (2008) (32)
- Paleoecology of the Serengeti during the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: The mammal and fish evidence. (2017) (31)
- Community‐wide character displacement in Miocene hyaenas (1996) (31)
- Pachycrocuta (hyaenids) from the Pliocene of east Africa (1999) (29)
- Studies of fossil hyaenids: the genus Adcrocuta Kretzoi and the interrelationships of some hyaenid taxa (1990) (28)
- Carnivoran Dispersal Out of Africa During the Early Pleistocene: Relevance for Hominins? (2010) (28)
- The evolution of western Eurasian Neogene faunas: a chronologic, systematic, biogeographic, and paleoenvironmental synthesis (1996) (28)
- Hyena paleogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena (2020) (27)
- AMPHIMACHAIRODUS (FELIDAE, MAMMALIA) FROM SAHABI (LATEST MIOCENE-EARLIEST PLIOCENE, LIBYA), WITH A REVIEW OF AFRICAN MIOCENE MACHAIRODONTINAE (2007) (26)
- Determination of Rare Earth Elements in Biological and Mineral Apatite by EPMA and LAMP-ICP-MS (1996) (26)
- Turnover in the guild of larger carnivores in Eurasia across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary (1996) (24)
- Chronology and biostratigraphy of the Miocene Sinap Formation of Central Turkey (1996) (24)
- Carnivores, exclusive of Hyaenidae, of the later Miocene of Europe and Western Asia (1996) (23)
- Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa (2020) (23)
- Additional material of the enigmatic Early Miocene mammal Kelba and its relationship to the order Ptolemaiida (2007) (23)
- The fossil and living Hyaenidae of Africa: present status (1996) (22)
- Basicranial morphology and phylogenetic position of the upper Eocene carnivoramorphan Quercygale (2005) (21)
- SPECIES IDENTIFICATION IN MEGANTEREON: A REPLY TO PALMQVIST (2002) (21)
- The "Homotherium" from Langebaanweg, South Africa and the Origin of Homotherium (2006) (21)
- New Species of Crocuta from the Early Pliocene of Kenya, with an Overview of Early Pliocene Hyenas of Eastern Africa (2008) (20)
- PALAEOECOLOGY OF AN EARLY-MIDDLE MIOCENE LAKE IN CHINA:PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATIONS BASED ON PHYTOLITHS FROM THE SHANWANG BASIN (2007) (19)
- Patterns of change in in the Plio-Pleistocene carnivorans of eastern Africa: Implications for hominin evolution (2007) (19)
- Circumventing a Constraint: the Case of Thylacoleo (Marsupialia : Thylacoleonidae) (1988) (18)
- Carnivora from the Kanapoi hominin site, northern Kenya (2012) (18)
- Fossil Hyaenidae from Cooper’s Cave, South Africa, and the palaeoenvironmental implications (2017) (18)
- Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 7: The Carnivora (2013) (17)
- Pleistocene vertebrates from Tarija, Bolivia in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (1992) (17)
- Phylogeography of the white-tailed mongoose (Herpestidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) based on partial sequences of the mtDNA control region (2008) (16)
- The phylogenetic context of Smilodon (2018) (15)
- A COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS TO STUDY CORRELATED DISCRETE CHARACTERS ON PHYLOGENETIC TREES (1995) (14)
- Prionogalidae (Mammalia Incertae Sedis) (2010) (14)
- WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET— A report from a Nobel Symposium (1989) (14)
- The last amphicyonid (Mammalia, Carnivora) in Africa (2009) (14)
- The MN System: regional or continental? (1998) (14)
- Preliminary analysis of taxonomic diversity, turnover and provinciality in a subsample of large land mammals from the later Miocene of western Eurasia. (1996) (13)
- A new species of fox from the Australopithecus sediba type locality, Malapa, South Africa (2013) (13)
- Evolutionary history of hyaenas in the Miocene of Europe and Western Asia (1996) (13)
- Studies of fossil hyaenids: the genera Ictitherium Roth … Wagner and Sinictitherium Kretzoi and a new species of Ictitherium (1988) (13)
- Carnivora from the Late Miocene of Lantian, China (2005) (13)
- Mid-Pliocene Carnivora from the Woranso-Mille Area, Afar Region, Ethiopia (2014) (13)
- Taxonomy and systematics of living hyaenas (family Hyaenidae) (1998) (12)
- Early Pleistocene fauna of the Olteţ River Valley of Romania: Biochronological and biogeographic implications (2020) (12)
- The stature of some medieval Swedish populations (1985) (12)
- Patterns of stature variation in Medieval Sweden (2000) (11)
- The relationships of Lynx shansius Teilhard (1984) (11)
- Carnivoran postcranial adaptations and their relationships to climate (2016) (10)
- Carnivoran Evolution: The biogeography of carnivore ecomorphology (2010) (10)
- Early Pleistocene Mammals of Africa: Background to Dispersal (2010) (10)
- The Casa del Diablo cave (Puno, Peru) and the late Pleistocene demise of megafauna in the Andean Altiplano (2018) (10)
- A contextual review of the Carnivora of Kanapoi. (2017) (10)
- Studies of fossil hyaenas: affinities of Lycyaenops rhomboideae Kretzoi from Pestlörinc, Hungary (1999) (10)
- Locating Specimens of Extinct Tiger (Panthera tigris) Subspecies: Javan Tiger (P. T. sondaica), Balinese Tiger (P. T. balica), and Caspian Tiger (P. T. virgata), Including Previously Unpublished Specimens (2013) (10)
- Ecological Specialization and Evolutionary Reticulation in Extant Hyaenidae (2020) (9)
- Middle Miocene Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from Fort Ternan, western Kenya (2019) (9)
- Evolution of South American Mammalian Predators during the Cenozoic: Paleobiogeographic and Paleoenvironmental Contingencies (2018) (9)
- Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology (2014) (9)
- Brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) from the Pleistocene of Kenya (1997) (9)
- Allohyaena (Mammalia: Carnivora): giant hyaenid from the Late Miocene of Hungary (1999) (8)
- The Taxonomic Identity of the Type Specimen of Crocuta sivalensis (Falconer, 1867) (2012) (8)
- The “Homotherium” from Langebaanweg and the origin of Homotherium (2006) (7)
- New Miocene Carnivora (Mammalia) from Moruorot and Kalodirr, Kenya (2018) (7)
- The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology (2016) (7)
- A New Skull of Hyaenictis Gaudry, 1861 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) Shows Incipient Adaptations to Durophagy (2017) (7)
- Carnivoran Ecomorphology: Patterns below the Family Level (2014) (7)
- The carnivores of Rudabánya (2005) (6)
- Biogeographic characterisation of MN unit reference localities (1997) (6)
- A critical review of African species of Eucyon (Mammalia; Carnivora; Canidae), with a new species from the Pliocene of the Woranso‐Mille Area, Afar Region, Ethiopia (2015) (6)
- A new chimaeroid fish from the Cretaceous of Lebanon (1986) (6)
- Application of the solubility profiling technique to Recent and fossil fish teeth (1998) (6)
- Some observations on Sarcophilus laniarius and the evolution of Sarcophilus (1987) (6)
- Gigantic lion, Panthera leo, from the Pleistocene of Natodomeri, eastern Africa (2017) (5)
- CARNIVORA FROM THE SOUTH TURKWEL HOMINID SITE (2000) (5)
- The sabertooth cat, Smilodon populator (Carnivora: Felidae), from Cueva de Milodón, Chile (2018) (5)
- Ecological Specialization and Evolutionary Reticulation in Extant Hyaenidae. (2021) (5)
- First small-sized Dinofelis: Evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of North Africa (2021) (5)
- Biogeographic relationships of African carnivoran faunas, 7–1.2 Ma (2008) (5)
- The carnivore guild circa 1.98 million years: biodiversity and implications for the palaeoenvironment at Malapa, South Africa (2016) (4)
- Dispersal ability predicts evolutionary success among mammalian carnivores (2019) (4)
- Comparative ecomorphology and biogeography of Herpestidae and Viverridae (Carnivora) (2008) (4)
- The brain anatomy of an early Miocene felid from Ginn Quarry (Nebraska, USA) (2019) (3)
- Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2022) (3)
- Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth (2018) (3)
- Studies of fossil hyaenids: the identity of Lycyaenops rhomboideae Kretzoi from Pesztlörinc, Hungary (1999) (3)
- Too well restored? The case of the Megantereon skull from Senàze (2007) (2)
- Culture, science and bioethics - Interdisciplinary understandings of and practices in science, culture and ethics (2014) (2)
- First Fossils of Hyenas (Chasmaporthetes, Hyaenidae, Carnivora) from North of the Arctic Circle (2019) (2)
- A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives (2021) (2)
- Testicondy and ecological opportunism predict the rapid evolution of elephants (1999) (2)
- African Barbourofelinae (Mammalia, Nimravidae): a critical review (2021) (2)
- Systematics, Evolution, and Genetics of Bears (2020) (2)
- CarniFOSS: A database of the body mass of fossil carnivores (2021) (2)
- Community-wide character displacement in the lower carnassials of Late Miocene hyenas (1996) (2)
- The difference between trivial and scientific names: There were never any true cheetahs in North America (2016) (2)
- A new small carnivoran from the Middle Miocene of Fort Ternan, Kenya (2008) (2)
- Statistical studies of pleistocene and recent mammals (1981) (2)
- Testing for ecophenotypic variation in a benthic foraminifer (1983) (2)
- A revision of the genus Crocuta (Mammalia, Hyaenidae) (2022) (2)
- King of beasts. (2013) (1)
- Correspondence analysis and the analysis of skull shape and structure (1988) (1)
- A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] (2021) (1)
- Modes and Tempos of Evolution of Quaternary Mammals (1993) (1)
- Björn Kurtén - a memorial volume (1991) (1)
- The Scientific Name of the Aardwolf is Proteles cristatus (2021) (1)
- Hyaenas: The rise and fall of a carnivore family (1991) (1)
- How Many Hyenas in North America? A Quantitative Perspective (2021) (1)
- History of classification of the Felidae (1996) (1)
- Phylogenies, fossils and evolutionary studies (1993) (1)
- The reliability of computer parsimony programs : comments on a paper by Lorenzen and Sieg (1992) (1)
- Paleoanthropology of the Ledi-Geraru, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia (2015) (1)
- Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis (2014) (1)
- The Neurocranium of Ekweeconfractus amorui gen. et sp. nov. (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) and the Evolution of the Brain in Some Hyaenodontan Carnivores (2021) (1)
- A review of “FOSSIL MAMMALS OF ASIA: NEOGENE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY,” edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn and Mikael Fortelius 2013. Columbia University Press, New York, 732 pp., US$99.50 (£68.50) hardback, ISBN: 978-0-231-15012-5. (2014) (0)
- The Whales of August (1989) (0)
- Computer parsimony programs: a comment on a paper by Lorenzen and Sieg (1992) (0)
- Culture, science and bioethics (2014) (0)
- Mammal Migrations and Dispersal Events in the Quaternary of Europe (1992) (0)
- Origin of adaptations to open environments and social behaviour in sabretoothed cats from the northeastern border of the Tibetan Plateau (2023) (0)
- Mid-Pliocene Carnivora from the Woranso-Mille Area, Afar Region, Ethiopia (2013) (0)
- Applications of laser scanning in palaeontology (1996) (0)
- 17. Carnivoran Ecomorphology: A Phylogenetic Perspective (2019) (0)
- Neogene and Quaternary mammals of the Palaearctic : Conference in honour of professor Kazimierz Kowalski (1996) (0)
- A New Skull of Hyaenictis Gaudry, 1861 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) Shows Incipient Adaptations to Durophagy (2016) (0)
- D. Jánossy: Pleistocene Vertebrate Faunas of Hungary (1988) (0)
- Carnivora from the Sinap Formation, Turkey (2003) (0)
- The origin of Homo ca. 2.8 Ma in the Ledi Geraru research area (Afar, Ethiopia) (2015) (0)
- Rediscovering a forgotten canid species (2017) (0)
- Studies of fossil hyaenas: affinities of Kretzoi from Pestlrinc, Hungary (1999) (0)
- A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture (2022) (0)
- Bibymalagasia (Mammalia Incertae sedis) (2010) (0)
- A New skull of Hyaenictis ( Carnivora , Hyaenidae ) Shows Incipient Adaptations to Durophagy (2016) (0)
- TWO dog‐tooth (1991) (0)
- Influence of climate on faunal evolution in the Quaternary of Europe (1995) (0)
- A classic compilation (1989) (0)
- Digital endocasts from two late Eocene carnivores shed light on the evolution of the brain at the origin of Carnivora (2022) (0)
- The difference between trivial and scientific names: There were never any true cheetahs in North America (2016) (0)
- (Marnmalia: Carnivora): giant hyaenid from the Late Miocene of Hungary (1999) (0)
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