Hans Thewissen

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According to Wikipedia, Johannes Gerardus Marie Thewissen is a Dutch-American paleontologist known for his significant contributions to the field of whale evolution. Thewissen's fieldwork has led to the discovery of key fossils that have shed light on the transition of whales from land to water, including the discovery of Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, Indohyus, and Kutchicetus. In addition to his work on fossil discoveries, Thewissen also studies modern bowhead and beluga whales in Alaska, focusing on their biology and the implications of this knowledge for management and conservation efforts. His research has been instrumental in deepening our understanding of cetacean evolution and the adaptations that allowed these mammals to transition from terrestrial to fully aquatic lifestyles.

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Hans Thewissen's Published Works

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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2001) (813)
Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India (2007) (277)
Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls (2001) (272)
Vestibular evidence for the evolution of aquatic behaviour in early cetaceans (2002) (216)
Morphoregulation of teeth: modulating the number, size, shape and differentiation by tuning Bmp activity (2005) (178)
Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Aquatic Locomotion in Archaeocete Whales (1994) (170)
Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates (2008) (165)
From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises (2009) (146)
Developmental basis for hind-limb loss in dolphins and origin of the cetacean bodyplan. (2006) (140)
The emergence of whales : evolutionary patterns in the origin of Cetacea (1998) (122)
Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia (2011) (111)
Ambulocetus natans , an Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) - from Pakistan (1996) (104)
Cranial anatomy of Ignacius graybullianus and the affinities of the Plesiadapiformes (1992) (99)
The Emergence of Whales (1998) (98)
Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: Anatomical adaptations for underwater hearing (2007) (96)
The Early Radiations of Cetacea (Mammalia): Evolutionary Pattern and Developmental Correlations (2002) (94)
A retroposon analysis of Afrotherian phylogeny. (2005) (92)
Locomotor evolution in the earliest cetaceans: functional model, modern analogues, and paleontological evidence (1997) (90)
Eocene evolution of whale hearing (2004) (89)
Eocene mammal faunas from northern Indo-Pakistan (2001) (86)
Olfaction and brain size in the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) (2011) (86)
Origin of underwater hearing in whales (1993) (82)
Early eocene primates from Vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, western India (2005) (82)
The role of phenacodontids in the origin of the modern orders of ungulate mammals (1992) (82)
Fossil sirenia of the west Atlantic and Caribbean region. V. The most primitive known sirenian, Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855 (1994) (81)
Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra) (1990) (80)
Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales (2015) (74)
Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls (2014) (73)
Isotopic Approaches to Understanding the Terrestrial-to-Marine Transition of the Earliest Cetaceans (1998) (73)
Age‐related size reduction of foramina in the cribriform plate (1998) (68)
Early Eocene snakes from Kutch, Western India, with a review of the Palaeophiidae (2003) (67)
Distinctive cranial and cervical innervation of wing muscles: new evidence for bat monophyly (1991) (65)
Evolution of cetacean osmoregulation (1996) (62)
Whale Origins as a Poster Child for Macroevolution (2001) (57)
A NEW NEAR-SHORE MARINE FAUNA AND FLORA FROM THE EARLY NEOGENE OF NORTHWESTERN VENEZUELA (2000) (57)
Development and evolution of the unique cetacean dentition (2013) (53)
Ankle morphology of the earliest Cetaceans and its implications for the phylogenetic relations among ungulates. (1999) (49)
Skull and endocranial cast of Eoryctes melanus, a new palaeoryctid (Mammalia: Insectivora) from the early Eocene of western North America (1989) (48)
Additional holotype remains of Ambulocetus natans (Cetacea, Ambulocetidae), and their implications for locomotion in early whales (2002) (45)
Evolutionary aspects of the development of teeth and baleen in the bowhead whale (2017) (44)
Paleobiogeography of Indo-Pakistan: A Response to Briggs, Patterson, and Owen (1992) (43)
Evolution of dental wear and diet during the origin of whales (2011) (43)
Postcranial Osteology of the most Primitive Artiodactyl: Diacodexis pakistanensis (Dichobunidae) (1990) (42)
A new, diminutive Eocene whale from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution of cetaceans (2000) (41)
Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (Mammalia) from the Early-Middle Eocene Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan) (1987) (39)
New Skeletal Material of Andrewsiphius and Kutchicetus, Two Eocene Cetaceans from India (2009) (38)
Cranial Anatomy of Middle Eocene Remingtonocetus (Cetacea, Mammalia) from Kutch, India (2011) (35)
Sensory Evolution on the Threshold (2008) (35)
Severe Bone Loss as Part of the Life History Strategy of Bowhead Whales (2016) (35)
Phylogenetic aspects of Cetacean origins: A morphological perspective (1994) (35)
Intervertebral and Epiphyseal Fusion in the Postnatal Ontogeny of Cetaceans and Terrestrial Mammals (2015) (35)
CRANIAL ANATOMY OF PAKICETIDAE (CETACEA, MAMMALIA) (2006) (34)
Embryogenesis and Development in Stenella attenuata and Other Cetaceans (2016) (34)
The Origin of Flight in BatsTo go where no mammal has gone before (1992) (33)
Middle Eocene Cetaceans from the Harudi and Subathu Formations of India (1998) (33)
Cephalic evidence for the affinities of Tubulidentata (1985) (33)
Enamel microstructure of Pakicetus (Mammalia: Archaeoceti) (1995) (33)
EOCENE AND OLIGOCENE SIRENIANS (MAMMALIA) FROM KACHCHH, INDIA (2006) (32)
Sensory Hairs in the Bowhead Whale, Balaena mysticetus (Cetacea, Mammalia) (2015) (31)
Postcranial morphology and locomotion of the Eocene raoellid Indohyus (Artiodactyla: Mammalia) (2011) (31)
Mammalian frontal diploic vein and the human foramen caecum (1989) (31)
Evolutionary biology: Even-toed fingerprints on whale ancestry (1997) (30)
Whale ankles and evolutionary relationships (1998) (29)
Comparative and functional anatomy of balance in aquatic mammals (2008) (29)
Evolutionary changes of the importance of olfaction in cetaceans based on the olfactory marker protein gene. (2012) (29)
Vertebrate fauna from Panandhro lignite field (Lower Eocene),District Kachchh, western India (2002) (29)
Adhesive Devices on the Thumb of Vespertilionoid Bats (Chiroptera) (1995) (28)
A new dichobunid artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Eocene of North-West Pakistan. II. Cranial osteology (1983) (27)
New early Eocene cambaythere (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Vastan Lignite Mine (Gujarat, India) and an evaluation of cambaythere relationships (2006) (26)
First fossil marsupials from India: early Eocene Indodelphis n. gen. and Jaegeria n. gen. from the Vastan Lignite mine, District Surat, Gujarat (2005) (26)
Creodont and condylarth from Cambay Shale (early Eocene, ~55-54 Ma), Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, western India (2009) (26)
Development of the Skull of the Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) (2011) (26)
The origin and early evolution of whales: macroevolution documented on the Indian Subcontinent (2009) (24)
Enigmatic new ungulates from the Early Middle Eocene of central Anatolia, Turkey (2001) (24)
Beyond thermoregulation: metabolic function of cetacean blubber in migrating bowhead and beluga whales (2016) (24)
Aquatic adaptations in the limbs of amniotes (2007) (24)
A New Miocene Sirenian from Kutch, India (2009) (23)
The Physics of Sound in Air and Water (2008) (23)
DENTAL MORPHOLOGY OF REMINGTONOCETIDAE (CETACEA, MAMMALIA) (2001) (22)
Developmental Biology Enriches Paleontology (2012) (21)
Attockicetus praecursor, A New Remingtonocetid Cetacean from Marine Eocene Sediments of Pakistan (2000) (20)
Eocene Actinopterygian Fishes from Pakistan, with the Description of a New Genus and Species of Channid (Channiformes) (2008) (19)
Validation of Growth Layer Group (GLG) depositional rate using daily incremental growth lines in the dentin of beluga (Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)) teeth (2018) (18)
Allometric patterns of fetal head growth in mysticetes and odontocetes: Comparison of Balaena mysticetus and Stenella attenuata (2011) (18)
Review and experimental evaluation of the embryonic development and evolutionary history of flipper development and hyperphalangy in dolphins (Cetacea: Mammalia) (2018) (18)
Indocetus (Cetacea, Mammalia) endocasts from Kachchh (India) (1996) (18)
Comments and Reply on "Paleontological view of the ages of the Deccan Traps, the Cretaceous /Tertiary boundary, and the India-Asia collision" (1990) (17)
SKULL OF MEGALOHYRAX EOCAENUS (HYRACOIDEA, MAMMALIA) FROM THE OLIGOCENE OF EGYPT (2001) (16)
The Implications of the Propatagial Muscles of Flying and Gliding Mammals for Archontan Systematics (1993) (16)
Temporal data in phylogenetic systematics: an example from the mammalian fossil record (1992) (15)
PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF PALEOSOLS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETING VERTEBRA TE FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES, KULDANA FORMATION, NORTHERN PAKISTAN (1996) (15)
Organization and distribution of glomeruli in the bowhead whale olfactory bulb (2015) (15)
The descriptive and functional myology of the fore-limb of the Aardvark (Orycteropus afer, Pallas 1766). (1986) (14)
The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years (2014) (14)
Seasonal and Ontogenetic Variation in Subcutaneous Adipose Of the Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) (2015) (13)
New Middle Eocene Archaeocetes (Cetacea:Mammalia) from the Kuldana Formation of Northern Pakistan (2009) (13)
Toward an integrative approach (2008) (13)
Limb Osteology and function of the primitive Paleocene ungulate Pleuraspidotherium with notes on Tricuspiodon and Dissacus (Mammalia) (1991) (13)
Protocetid cetaceans (Mammalia) from the Eocene of India (2014) (13)
A NEW ISECTOLOPHID TAPIROMORPH (PERISSODACTYLA, MAMMALIA) FROM THE EARLY EOCENE OF PAKISTAN (2001) (13)
Leptin in Whales: Validation and Measurement of mRNA Expression by Absolute Quantitative Real-Time PCR (2013) (12)
LATERAL MANDIBULAR WALL THICKNESS IN TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS: VARIATION DUE TO SEX AND AGE (2004) (11)
Cetacean Origins: Evolutionary Turmoil during the Invasion of the Oceans (1998) (11)
Balance: Comparative and functional Anatomy in Aquatic Mammals (2008) (10)
New Kohatius (Omomyidae) from the Eocene of Pakistan. (1997) (10)
Vespertilionid Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Idaho (1987) (10)
Age estimation in bowhead whales using tympanic bulla histology and baleen isotopes (2018) (9)
Sensory Biology: Overview (2009) (9)
Female and male reproduction (2021) (9)
History of Marine Mammal Research (2009) (8)
SENSORY HAIRS IN THE BOWHEAD (2014) (7)
New Applications for Constrained Ordination: Reconstructing Feeding Behaviors in Fossil Remingtonocetinae (Cetacea: Mammalia) (2014) (7)
The spiral ganglion and Rosenthal's canal in beluga whales (2015) (7)
Ontogeny of the Orbital Glands and Their Environs in the Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata: Delphinidae) (2018) (7)
New Oligocene Mustelid From Western India (2008) (6)
Structure of the external auditory meatus of the Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) and its relation to their seasonal migration (2018) (6)
Highlights of Cetacean Embryology (2018) (5)
Unique Biochemical and Mineral Composition of Whale Ear Bones (2014) (5)
Thewissen et al. reply (2009) (5)
Systematics and Evolution of Probathyopsi (Mammalia, Dinocerata) from the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene of Western North America (1987) (4)
Berardius Beaked Whales: Berardius bairdii and B. arnuxii (2018) (4)
Indohyus, Endemic Radiation of Raoellid Artiodactyls in the Eocene of India and Pakistan (2020) (4)
Middle Eocene prosimian primate from the Subathu group of Kalakot, northwestern Himalaya, India (2002) (4)
Unexpected evolutionary patterns of dental ontogenetic traits in cetartiodactyl mammals (2019) (3)
Commercial whaling (2021) (3)
Fossil Yak (Bos Grunniens: Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Himalayas of Pakistan (1997) (3)
Marine Mammal Evolution (2009) (2)
The Endocranial Cast of Indohyus (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): The Origin of the Cetacean Brain (2021) (2)
Age estimation (2021) (2)
Embryos in Deep Time, the Rock Record of Biological Development Sánchez, M.University of California Press, Berkeley, 256 pp, ISBN978‐0‐520‐27193‐7, Price $39.95. (2012) (2)
Whale tear glands in the bowhead and the beluga whales: Source and function (2020) (2)
Carpal Morphology and Function in the Earliest Cetaceans (2020) (2)
Olfactory epithelium and ontogeny of the nasal chambers in the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) (2021) (2)
Linking gene expression and phenotypic changes in the developmental and evolutionary origins of osteosclerosis in the ribs of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). (2020) (1)
Indigenous knowledge in research and management (2021) (1)
Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales (2015) (1)
A comparative analysis of cone photoreceptor morphology in bowhead and beluga whales (2020) (1)
Arctic Report Card 2020: Bowhead whales: recent insights into their biology, status and resilience (2020) (1)
Indohyus: the origin of whales (2010) (1)
Beyond thermoregulation: metabolic function of cetacean blubber in migrating bowhead and beluga whales (2016) (1)
IntroductionOn Becoming Aquatic (2008) (1)
Correction to: The Endocranial Cast of Indohyus (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): The Origin of the Cetacean Brain (2021) (1)
Separation of Large Municipal Solid Waste (2014) (1)
Fossil Mammals of Asia. Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology. Edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius. New York: Columbia University Press. 2013. 723 pp., $99.50 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-231-15012-5 (2015) (0)
The pattern of brain-size change in the early evolution of cetaceans (2021) (0)
Intervertebral and Epiphyseal Fusion in the Postnatal Ontogeny of Cetaceans and Terrestrial Mammals (2014) (0)
The role of desmosomes in the ear plug formation in the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) (2019) (0)
Low-Calorie Evolution (2001) (0)
Fossil Asian Mammals Lite (2015) (0)
The Formation and Position of Middle Ear Ossicles During Development in Cetacea (2020) (0)
Congenital defects and herpesvirus infection in beluga whale Delphinapterus leucas calves from the Critically Endangered Cook Inlet population. (2022) (0)
Anatomy of skull and mandible (2021) (0)
Berta, A. 2012. Return to the Sea: the Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 205 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-27057-2, price (hardbound), $31.26 (2013) (0)
Save India's heritage (2010) (0)
Fossil Asian Mammals Lite (2014) (0)
C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.): Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of Noth America (1999) (0)
Comparative embryology of Delphinapterus leucas, Balaena mysticetus, and Stenella attenuata (Cetacea: Mammalia). (2022) (0)
Paleontological and Developmental Evidence for the Origin of Baleen and the Loss of Teeth in Baleen Whales (2017) (0)
Chapter 18. Aquatic Adaptations in the Limbs of Amniotes (2019) (0)
Is all fat created equal?: A comparison of absolute copy number for leptin expression from fish to mammals (2011) (0)
Title Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste inwhales (2018) (0)
Comparative embryology of Delphinapterus leucas (beluga whale), Balaena mysticetus (bowhead whale), and Stenella attenuata (pan‐tropical spotted dolphin) (Cetacea: Mammalia) (2023) (0)
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List of contributors (2021) (0)
Recent Books of Interest (2004) (0)

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