Douglas Erwin

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Douglas Erwin is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, California Institute of Technology, Colgate University, University of Johannesburg, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Washington

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Douglas Erwin's Degrees

PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Geology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Douglas Hamilton Erwin is a paleobiologist, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Chair of the Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.

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The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals (2011) (1015)
Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans (2006) (980)
Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction (2011) (625)
The Permo–Triassic extinction (1994) (621)
Pattern of marine mass extinction near the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China. (2000) (606)
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (2006) (478)
The evolution of hierarchical gene regulatory networks (2009) (437)
The origin and evolution of cell types (2016) (434)
Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology (2017) (340)
Niche Construction Theory: A Practical Guide for Ecologists (2013) (324)
The Terminal P-Tr Events. (Book Reviews: The Great Paleozoic Crisis. Life and Death in the Permian.) (1993) (311)
Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa (2005) (310)
The Fossils of the Burgess Shale (1994) (308)
DISPARITY: MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERN AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT (2007) (299)
Lessons from the past: Biotic recoveries from mass extinctions (2000) (298)
Fossils, molecules and embryos: new perspectives on the Cambrian explosion. (1999) (266)
The last common bilaterian ancestor. (2002) (265)
End-Permian mass extinctions: A review (2002) (265)
Macroevolution of ecosystem engineering, niche construction and diversity. (2008) (247)
The end and the beginning: recoveries from mass extinctions. (1998) (244)
AUTECOLOGY AND THE FILLING OF ECOSPACE: KEY METAZOAN RADIATIONS (2007) (242)
The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat? (2013) (216)
Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia (2010) (202)
New approaches to speciation in the fossil record (1995) (202)
A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity (2020) (197)
Compilation and Network Analyses of Cambrian Food Webs (2008) (193)
High-precision temporal calibration of Late Permian vertebrate biostratigraphy: U-Pb zircon constraints from the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa (2013) (189)
Earth’s oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life (2016) (187)
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIVERSIFICATION EVENTS: THE EARLY PALEOZOIC VERSUS THE MESOZOIC (1987) (187)
The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity (2013) (174)
The Great Paleozoic Crisis (1993) (173)
The Origin of Animal Body Plans (1997) (166)
The Evolution and Distribution of Species Body Size (2008) (161)
The End-Permian Mass Extinction (1990) (159)
Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals (2016) (154)
Macroevolution is more than repeated rounds of microevolution (2000) (150)
Climate as a Driver of Evolutionary Change (2009) (149)
Developmental evolution of metazoan bodyplans: the fossil evidence. (1996) (149)
When and how did the terrestrial mid-Permian mass extinction occur? Evidence from the tetrapod record of the Karoo Basin, South Africa (2015) (133)
Deep Time : Paleobiology's Perspective (2001) (130)
Secular Distribution of Biogenic Silica through the Phanerozoic: Comparison of Silica‐Replaced Fossils and Bedded Cherts at the Series Level (2001) (128)
A New Look at Evolutionary Rates in Deep Time: Uniting Paleontology and High-Precision Geochronology (1998) (122)
High-resolution SIMS oxygen isotope analysis on conodont apatite from South China and implications for the end-Permian mass extinction (2016) (115)
Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota (2015) (114)
A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China (2018) (113)
Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion. (2018) (108)
Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa (2012) (101)
Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life (2015) (100)
Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit (2009) (97)
Recovery after mass extinction: evolutionary assembly in large-scale biosphere dynamics. (2002) (95)
Early metazoan life: divergence, environment and ecology (2015) (95)
Diversity, Dilemmas, and Monopolies of Niche Construction (2008) (93)
A preliminary classification of evolutionary radiations (1992) (91)
What can we learn about ecology and evolution from the fossil record? (2006) (83)
Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems (2015) (82)
Insights into Innovation (2004) (80)
Response to Comment on "Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans" (2006) (79)
Quantifying the process and abruptness of the end-Permian mass extinction (2014) (78)
Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history (2008) (68)
The challenges and scope of theoretical biology. (2011) (67)
Recoveries and Radiations: Gastropods After the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction (1996) (63)
On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals (2020) (63)
Innovation not recovery: dynamic redox promotes metazoan radiations (2018) (61)
Silica-replaced fossils through the Phanerozoic (1997) (60)
CAMBRIAN NARAOIIDS (ARTHROPODA): MORPHOLOGY, ONTOGENY, SYSTEMATICS, AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS (2007) (59)
Early introduction of major morphological innovations (1993) (58)
The Origin of Bodyplans (1999) (55)
Evolutionary innovation and stability in animal gene networks. (2009) (55)
Upper Triassic Invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, Mexico (1994) (51)
IDENTITY AND PHYLOGENY OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC SUBULITOIDEA (GASTROPODA) (2000) (51)
Dynamic response of Permian brachiopod communities to long-term environmental change (2004) (50)
The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome (2020) (50)
A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia (2016) (50)
An integrated view of precambrian eumetazoan evolution. (2009) (48)
GASTROPODS FROM THE PERMIAN OF GUANGXI AND YUNNAN PROVINCES, SOUTH CHINA (2002) (47)
The origin of metazoan development: a palaeobiological perspective (1993) (44)
FOSSIL FISHES FROM THE LOWER TRIASSIC OF MAJIASHAN, CHAOHU, ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA (2006) (41)
Seeds of Diversity (2005) (40)
Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems (2012) (39)
Carboniferous-Triassic gastropod diversity patterns and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (1990) (38)
Metazoan phylogeny and the Cambrian radiation. (1991) (38)
Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology (2009) (38)
DATES AND RATES: Temporal Resolution in the Deep Time Stratigraphic Record* (2006) (37)
Regional paleoecology of Permian gastropod genera, Southwestern United States and the End-Permian mass extinction (1989) (37)
"Hopeful monsters," transposons, and Metazoan radiation. (1984) (36)
The tempo of mass extinction and recovery: the end-Permian example. (1999) (36)
Patterns of convergence in general shell form among Paleozoic gastropods (2006) (35)
Simple model of recovery dynamics after mass extinction. (2010) (35)
Was the Ediacaran—Cambrian radiation a unique evolutionary event? (2015) (34)
Evolutionary uniformitarianism. (2011) (34)
Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction (2021) (33)
The Mother of Mass Extinctions (1991) (33)
Novelties that change carrying capacity. (2012) (32)
Increasing returns, ecological feedback and the Early Triassic recovery (2007) (29)
Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America (2020) (29)
Ecospace Utilization During the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-explosion (2011) (28)
A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation (2020) (27)
A public goods approach to major evolutionary innovations (2015) (25)
After the End: Recovery from Extinction (1998) (24)
Impact at the Permo-Triassic boundary: a critical evaluation. (2003) (24)
The topology of evolutionary novelty and innovation in macroevolution (2017) (24)
Change and Stability in Permian Brachiopod Communities from Western Texas (2009) (23)
Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States: Subulitacea (1988) (23)
Paleobiogeography of China (1995) (22)
Origin of Metazoan Developmental Toolkits and Their Expression in the Fossil Record (2015) (22)
Testing for causal relationships between large pyroclastic volcanic eruptions and mass extinctions (1992) (21)
Microevolution and Macroevolution are not Governed by the Same Processes (2009) (21)
JIANGXISPIRA, A NEW GASTROPOD GENUS FROM THE EARLY TRIASSIC OF CHINA WITH REMARKS ON THE PHYLOGENY OF THE HETEROSTROPHA AT THE PERMIAN/TRIASSIC BOUNDARY (2003) (19)
High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Guadalupian in West Texas, USA (2020) (19)
Battenizyga, a new Early Triassic gastropod genus with a discussion of the caenogastropod evolution at the Permian/Triassic boundary (2002) (18)
Developmental push or environmental pull? The causes of macroevolutionary dynamics (2017) (18)
Triassic gastropods of the southern Qinling Mountains, China (2001) (17)
Permian Global Bio-Events (1996) (16)
Response to Comment on "Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa" (2005) (15)
New taxa and some taxonomic changes of a latest Permian gastropod fauna from South China (2002) (15)
Palaeontology: Life's downs and ups (2000) (14)
The genus Glyptospira (Gastropoda: Trochacea) from the Permian of the southwestern United States (1988) (14)
Wonderful Ediacarans, wonderful cnidarians? (2008) (14)
The End-Permian mass extinction: What really happened and did it matter? (1989) (13)
EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution (2019) (13)
Temporal acuity and the rate and dynamics of mass extinctions (2014) (13)
Evolutionary paleobiology : in honor of James W. Valentine (1996) (13)
Charles Darwin's “The Life of Erasmus Darwin” (2003) (13)
Molecular clocks, molecular phylogenies and the origin of phyla (1989) (13)
A call to the custodians of deep time (2009) (12)
EARTHTIME: A community-based effort towards high-precision calibration of earth history (2005) (12)
Prospects for a General Theory of Evolutionary Novelty (2019) (11)
The Developmental Origins of Animal Bodyplans (2006) (11)
Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States: Cerithiacea, Acteonacea, and Pyramidellacea (1988) (11)
A comparative study of diversification events: the early Paleozoic versus the Mesozoic. (1987) (10)
Biospheric perturbations during Gondwanan times: From theNeoproterozoic-Cambrian radiation to the end-Permian crisis (1999) (10)
Regular ArticleThe origin of metazoan development: a palaeobiological perspective (1993) (9)
Evolution. Insights into innovation. (2004) (9)
The role of public goods in planetary evolution (2017) (9)
The Goldilocks Hypothesis (2003) (9)
Evolutionary contingency (2006) (9)
One Very Long Argument (2004) (8)
Chemical clues to the earliest animal fossils (2018) (8)
Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation (2014) (8)
Evolutionary dynamics of gene regulation. (2020) (7)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion. (2009) (7)
Developmental processes in Ediacara macrofossils (2021) (5)
Macroevolution: Dynamics of Diversity (2011) (5)
The end-Permian mass extinction: A complex, multicausal extinction (1994) (4)
The Evolution of Arthropod Body Plans: Integrating Phylogeny, Fossils, and Development-An Introduction to the Symposium. (2017) (4)
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata (2021) (4)
A Paleontological Look at History (2011) (4)
THE EARLY PALEOZOIC VERSUS THE MESOZOIC (1987) (4)
Metazoan Origins and Early Evolution (2007) (4)
Extinction: End‐Permian Mass Extinction (2006) (4)
PRACE: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe Preparation of a Petascale Supercomputing Infrastructure for European Scientists (2010) (3)
A LATE PERMIAN CHINESE GASTROPOD SPECIES, POSSIBLY LARVAL, IN THE MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN OF NEW MEXICO (2004) (3)
Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation (2014) (3)
Developmental capacity and the early evolution of animals (2021) (3)
Developmental Origins of Animal Body Plans (3)
Non-detection of C-60 fullerene at two mass extinction horizons (2016) (3)
Macroevolution. Seeds of diversity. (2005) (3)
Rapid deforestation across the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China (2007) (3)
A Variable Look at Evolution Kirschner Marc W. Gerhart John C. The Plausibility of Life 2005 Yale University Press New Haven, CT 336 pp. $30. (2005) (2)
Transitions: The Changing Earth-Life System - Critical Information for Society from the Deep Past (2012) (2)
A Variable Look at Evolution Kirschner Marc W. Gerhart John C. The Plausibility of Life 2005 Yale University Press New Haven, CT 336 pp. $30. (2005) (2)
La plus importante des extinctions en masse (1996) (1)
Innovation without imagination (2007) (1)
Innovation without imagination (2007) (1)
In the Blink of an Eye.ByAndrew Parker.Cambridge (Massachusetts): Perseus Publishing. $24.95. xviii + 316 p + 25 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–7382–0607–5. 2003. (2003) (1)
The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Capitanian Stage (Guadalupian, Middle Permian) (2022) (1)
Natural Selection for Everyone (2007) (1)
Trophic level & evolution in Paleozoic gastropods (1992) (1)
Variations on a Theme (1990) (1)
Mass Extinctions, Notable Examples of (2001) (1)
Two cosmopolitanism events driven by different extreme paleoclimate regimes (2022) (1)
From the Incoming Editors (1996) (1)
La Terre en pleines transformations (2009) (1)
Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates (2022) (1)
Review: Intelligent Design Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design by (2012) (0)
Developmental push or environmental pull? The causes of macroevolutionary dynamics (2017) (0)
Eric Davidson (1937–2015) (2015) (0)
The Mother of Mass Extinctions Disaster struck 250 million years ago, when the worst decimation in the earth's history occurred. Called the end-Permian mass extinction, it marks a fundamental change in the development of life (1996) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Origin of planktotrophy--evidence from early molluscs. (2006) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. (2006) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of maternal care in Membracine treehoppers. (2004) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China. (2004) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of The geometry of morphospaces: lessons from the classic Raup shell coiling model. (2016) (0)
Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa (2011) (0)
HAWAIIAN BIOGEOGRAPHY Advisory Board (2010) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of The evolution of early Foraminifera. (2003) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Decoupling of body-plan diversification and ecological structuring during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: evolutionary and geobiological feedbacks. (2014) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Insights into the urbilaterian brain: conserved genetic patterning mechanisms in insect and vertebrate brain development. (2005) (0)
David M. Raup (1933–2015) (2015) (0)
Book Review:The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis. George R. McGhee, Jr. (1997) (0)
Book Review (2018) (0)
The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, Developmental and Ecological Perspectives.– by T. S. Kemp. (2016) (0)
An Archean Biosphere Initiative (2011) (0)
Notes from the field (2009) (0)
The Origin of Body plans1 (1999) (0)
More Than Metaphorical Power? (2004) (0)
Enriching macroevolution (2014) (0)
Stephen Jay Gould: An Assessment (2004) (0)
Book Review: Origination of organismal form. Beyond the gene in development and evolutionary biology.† (2004) (0)
Tempos and modes of collectivity in the history of life (2019) (0)
PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES SCHUCHERT AWARD OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO CHARLES R. MARSHALL (2000) (0)
THE EARTHTIME INITIATIVE: ACCELERATING ADVANCES IN GEOCHRONOLOGY SINCE 2003 (2016) (0)
Biotic Reshufflings: The Paleobiogeography of China . Yin Hongfu, Ed. Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. xiv, 370 pp., illus. $120 or £80. Oxford Biogeography Series, 8. Translated from the Chinese edition (1988). (1995) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Morphological and molecular evidence for a stepwise evolutionary transition from teeth to baleen in mysticete whales. (2008) (0)
Off to a Good Start (2009) (0)
This Week in Science (2020) (0)
DEVELOPING A PICTURE OF EARLY ANIMAL EVOLUTION: IDENTIFYING REGULATORY ELEMENTS IN THE EDIACARA BIOTA (2020) (0)
Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses of the Paleozoic Subulitoidea (Gastropoda) (1992) (0)
The Invertebrate Tree of Life. By Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $85.00. xvii + 589 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-691-17025-1. 2020. (2020) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Trophic network models explain instability of Early Triassic terrestrial communities. (2007) (0)
In Science Journals (2021) (0)
PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLES SCHUCHERT AWARD OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO PETER J. WAGNER III (2005) (0)
Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
Contemplating Some Big Shifts (2012) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Evolutionary aspects of developmentally regulated helix-loop-helix transcription factors in striated muscle of jellyfish. (2003) (0)
PRESENTATION OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEDAL TO ANDREW H. KNOLL (2006) (0)
Otherworldly Earths: The Future of Deep Time Research (2011) (0)
GENERATING DEVELOPMENTAL CAPACITY DURING AN INTERVAL OF INTENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF ANIMALS (2019) (0)
Receptaculitids. M. H. Nitecki, H. Mutvei, and D. V. Nitecki. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. 1999. 239 pages. Cloth $85.00 (2002) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the thoracican barnacles using molecular and morphological evidence: a comparison of several divergence time estimation approaches. (2004) (0)
Paleoecology: A Redirection (1997) (0)
Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
Eric, evolution and bodyplans. (2016) (0)
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS OF EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN DIVERSIFICATION (2017) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages. (2011) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. (2009) (0)
High-Resolution Palaeozoic Biodiversity History of Marine Invertebrates Based on CONOP and Parallel Computing (2020) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Exceptionally preserved jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian. (2007) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution. (2008) (0)
Late Paleozoic subulitacea (mollusca:gastropoda), mass extinctions and the replacement of evolutionary faunas (1985) (0)
Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical Approach.Topics in Geobiology, Volume 19. Edited byJonathan M Adrain, Gregory D Edgecombe, and, Bruce S Lieberman.New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. $130.00. xiv + 402 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–306–46721–6. 2001. (2002) (0)
Biotic Recoveries after Extinction (2006) (0)
Eric Davidson and deep time (2017) (0)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Sean B. Carroll. (2005, W. W. Norton.) $25.95. ISBN 0-393-06016-0 (2007) (0)
More evidence for a massive turtle (2020) (0)
The role of UPb TIMS dating in resolving the causes of mass extinction events S (2005) (0)
Robustness in the history of life (2005) (0)
Book Review:Invertebrate Relationships: Patterns in Animal Evolution. Pat Willmer (1991) (0)
Eric Davidson (1937–2015) (2015) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of From the primordial soup to self-driving cars: standards and their role in natural and technological innovation. (2016) (0)
Eric Davidson and deep time (2017) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Evolution in leaps: The punctuated accumulation and loss of cultural innovations. (2016) (0)

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