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Elisabeth Vrba

Biology

#657

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#1150

Historical Rank

#364

USA Rank

Paleontology

#54

World Rank

#86

Historical Rank

#33

USA Rank

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Elisabeth Vrba's Degrees

PhD Zoology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Elisabeth S. Vrba is a paleontologist at Yale University who developed the turnover-pulse hypothesis. Education Vrba earned her Ph.D. in Zoology and Palaeontology at the University of Cape Town, in 1974. Vrba studied zoology and mathematical statistics at the University of Cape Town to earn her undergraduate degree. She remained there for doctoral study in zoology and paleontology to earn her Ph.D. After receiving her doctorate, Vrba conducted her early research on African fossil records over the last several million years, tracking the sequence of fossils from analyzing the geological strata and analyzing the morphology of the fossils. She was the chief assistant to Charles Kimberlin Brain during his directorship of the Transvaal Museum.

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Elisabeth Vrba's Published Works

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Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form (1982) (4065)
Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins (1995) (548)
Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids. (1999) (430)
Evolution, species and fossils: How does life evolve? (1965) (384)
Environment and evolution: alternative causes of the temporal distribution of evolutionary events (1985) (375)
Mammals as a Key to Evolutionary Theory (1992) (355)
Species and speciation (1987) (354)
A complete estimate of the phylogenetic relationships in Ruminantia: a dated species‐level supertree of the extant ruminants (2005) (349)
The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: sorting and selection cannot be equated (1986) (329)
Individuals, hierarchies and processes: towards a more complete evolutionary theory (1984) (310)
Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia (2002) (242)
Macrovertebrate Paleontology and the Pliocene Habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus (2009) (236)
Some evidence of chronology and palaeoecology of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and Kromdraai from the fossil Bovidae (1975) (235)
Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus (2006) (234)
The Fossil Record and Evolution of Bovidae: State of the Field (2009) (199)
African Homo erectus: old radiometric ages and young Oldowan assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. (1994) (191)
What is Species Selection (1984) (172)
Turnover-pulses, the Red Queen, and related topics (1993) (170)
New discoveries of Australopithecus at Maka in Ethiopia (1993) (150)
A cladistic analysis of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA from the Bovidae. (1997) (147)
African Bovidae: evolutionary events since the Miocene (1985) (141)
Macroevolutionary Trends: New Perspectives on the Roles of Adaptation and Incidental Effect (1983) (132)
Chronological and ecological implications of the fossil Bovidae at the Sterkfontein Australopithecine site (1974) (127)
Evolutionary Pattern and Process in the Sister-Group Alcelaphini-Aepycerotini (Mammalia: Bovidae) (1984) (120)
A method for inferring paleohabitats from the functional morphology of bovid astragali (2003) (119)
Ecology in relation to speciation rates: some case histories of Miocene-Recent mammal clades (1987) (112)
Plio-Pleistocene climatic change in the Turkana Basin (East Africa): evidence from large mammal faunas. (2006) (105)
Phylogeny of the Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia), based on mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. (1992) (95)
The fossil Bovidae of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans And Kromdraai (1974) (90)
A new study of the scapula of Australopithecus africanus from Sterkfontein (1979) (81)
New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini (1997) (77)
Phylogenetic analysis and classification of fossil and recent Alcelaphini Mammalia: Bovidae (1979) (75)
Methods for inferring paleohabitats from the functional morphology of bovid phalanges (2005) (75)
Antelopes, deer, and relatives : fossil record, behavioral ecology, systematics, and conservation (2000) (74)
Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia (2004) (68)
Do species populations really start small? New perspectives from the Late Neogene fossil record of African mammals. (2004) (65)
The Kromdraai Australopithecine site revisited in 1980; recent investigations and results (1981) (64)
Rapoport effect and biomic specialization in African mammals: revisiting the climatic variability hypothesis (2005) (60)
Body size, biomic specialization and range size of African large mammals (2005) (54)
Mass turnover and heterochrony events in response to physical change (2005) (54)
The Evolution of the Advanced Hominid Brain [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (54)
Multiphasic growth models and the evolution of prolonged growth exemplified by human brain evolution. (1998) (51)
Methods for inferring paleohabitats from discrete traits of the bovid postcranial skeleton (2005) (50)
Description of the Giant Muntjac (Megamuntiacus vuquangensis) in Laos (1996) (48)
Climate, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution (1996) (41)
Analysis of Paedomorphosis Using Allometric Characters: The Example of Reduncini Antelopes (Bovidae, Mammalia) (1994) (34)
Stephen Jay Gould on species selection: 30 years of insight (2005) (31)
RATE LIMITS FOR MISPAIRING AND COMPENSATORY CHANGE: THE MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOMAL DNA OF ANTELOPES (1994) (30)
Australopithecine enamel prism patterns. (1978) (30)
4 Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins (2007) (26)
A new african fossil caprin and a combined molecular and morphological bayesian phylogenetic analysis of caprini (Mammalia: Bovidae) (2012) (24)
Climatic influences on early hominid (1988) (23)
Hierarchy Theory, Selection, and SortingA phylogenetic perspective (1995) (22)
Contributions to the Functional Morphology of Fishes: Part V. The Feeding Mechanism of Elops Saurus Linnaeus (1968) (17)
Unraveling bovin phylogeny: accomplishments and challenges (2010) (17)
A NEW ANTELOPE, ZEPHYREDUNCINUS OUNDAGAISUS (REDUNCINI, ARTIODACTYLA, BOVIDAE), FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF THE MIDDLE AWASH, AFAR RIFT, ETHIOPIA (2006) (14)
New antelope fossils from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Hippotragini (Bovidae, Mammalia) (1994) (14)
New species and a new genus of Hippotragini (Bovidae) from Makapansgat limeworks (1987) (13)
First Asian Record of a Late Pleistocene Reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a Revision of the Asian Genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939 (2015) (12)
The pulse that produced us: two major global coolings may have prodded antelopes and humans to evolve : How did humans get that way? (1993) (12)
Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of (2006) (11)
Macroevolution : diversity, disparity, contingency : essays in honor of Stephen Jay Gould (2005) (10)
A possible ancestor of the living waterbuck and lechwes: Kobus basilcookei sp. nov. (Reduncini, Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Early Pliocene of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia (2006) (10)
How Do Complex Organisms Evolve ? (2003) (5)
Horns, Pronghorns, and Antlers: Evolution, Morphology, Physiology, and Social Significance. George A. Bubenik , Anthony B. Bubenik (1991) (5)
New species of Parmularius hopwood and Damaliscus sclater and Thomas (Alcelaphini, Bovidae, Mammalia) from Makapansgat, and comments on faunal chronological correlation (1977) (5)
Species’ habitats in relation to climate, evolution, migration and conservation (1997) (2)
Biochronology, Faunal Turnover, and Evolution (2009) (2)
Arguments on evolution: A paleontologist's perspective: by Antoni Hoffman, Oxford University Press, 1989. £22.50 hbk (xiii + 274 pages) ISBN 0 19 50443 6 (1990) (2)
Paleoenvironments and Hominin Evolution (2013) (1)
Children of the ice. By John and Mary Gribbin. New York: Basil Blackwell. 1990. vi + 199 pp. $24.95 (cloth) (1991) (0)
Paleontological Society Exaptation-A Missing Term in the Science of Form Author ( s ) : (2010) (0)
Morphological change in quaternary mammals of North America. R.A. Martin and A.D. Barnosky, 1993. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. Price: £45.00 Hardcover, viii + 415 pp. ISBN 0-521-40450-9 (1994) (0)
Preface (2005) (0)
The Sterkfontein Valley australopithecine succession (1980) (0)
ANNALS OF THE TRANSVAAL MUSEUM ANNALE VAN DIE TRANSVAAL-MUSEUM (2009) (0)
African mammal palaeontology (1979) (0)
A Fresh Look at Mass Extinctions (1988) (0)
Species and speciation. Development and speciation. Faunal case histories (1985) (0)
Species and speciation. Species concepts. Climate, populations, structure and speciation. (1985) (0)
Book Review:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould (1981) (0)

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