Kevin Padian
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American paleontologist
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Why Is Kevin Padian Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kevin Padian is a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology and was President of the National Center for Science Education from 2007 to 2008. Padian's area of interest is in vertebrate evolution, especially the origins of flight and the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs. He served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, and his testimony was repeatedly cited in the court's decision.
Kevin Padian's Published Works
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Published Papers
- The origin and early evolution of birds (1998) (385)
- Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals (1992) (342)
- LONG BONE HISTOLOGY OF THE HADROSAURID DINOSAUR MAIASAURA PEEBLESORUM: GROWTH DYNAMICS AND PHYSIOLOGY BASED ON AN ONTOGENETIC SERIES OF SKELETAL ELEMENTS (2000) (327)
- Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins (2001) (243)
- A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs (2007) (227)
- Variation in dinosaur skeletochronology indicators: implications for age assessment and physiology (1999) (216)
- Encyclopedia of dinosaurs (1997) (210)
- The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (1989) (194)
- GROWTH IN SMALL DINOSAURS AND PTEROSAURS: THE EVOLUTION OF ARCHOSAURIAN GROWTH STRATEGIES (2004) (191)
- Comparative osteohistology of some embryonic and perinatal archosaurs: developmental and behavioral implications for dinosaurs (2001) (179)
- A functional analysis of flying and walking in pterosaurs (1983) (160)
- Age and growth dynamics of Tyrannosaurus rex† (2004) (149)
- On the origin of high growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: Complementary histological studies on Triassic archosauriforms and the problem of a “phylogenetic signal” in bone histology (2008) (143)
- On the bone histology of some Triassic pseudosuchian archosaurs and related taxa (2003) (140)
- Biostratigraphy of new pterosaurs from China (1999) (134)
- The Beginning of the age of dinosaurs : faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (1986) (126)
- Cretaceous extinctions: multiple causes. (2010) (124)
- The fossil trackway Pteraichnus; not pterosaurian, but crocodilian (1984) (123)
- The evolution and function of thyreophoran dinosaur scutes: implications for plate function in stegosaurs (2005) (121)
- The origin of birds and their flight. (1998) (121)
- Palaeohistology of the bones of pterosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria): anatomy, ontogeny, and biomechanical implications (2000) (118)
- Buffon: A Life in Natural History (1997) (117)
- Epigenetic mechanical factors in the evolution of long bone epiphyses (1998) (117)
- The evolution of ‘bizarre structures’ in dinosaurs: biomechanics, sexual selection, social selection or species recognition? (2011) (106)
- Phylogenetic definitions and nomenclature of the major taxonomic categories of the carnivorous Dinosauria (Theropoda) (1999) (101)
- Phylogenetic, functional, and aerodynamic analyses of the origin of birds and their flight (1985) (100)
- The wings of pterosaurs (1993) (94)
- Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation (2013) (90)
- OSTEOHISTOLOGY OF CONFUCIUSORNIS SANCTUS (THEROPODA: AVES) (2003) (81)
- The origins and aerodynamics of flight in extinct vertebrates [Palaeontology Review] (1985) (79)
- Charles Darwin's views of classification in theory and practice. (1999) (75)
- Taphonomy and Depositional Setting of the Placerias Quarry (Chinle Formation: Late Triassic, Arizona) (2000) (68)
- The opisthotonic posture of vertebrate skeletons: postmortem contraction or death throes? (2007) (66)
- A large pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) of Montana (1984) (64)
- Comparative Long Bone Histology and Growth of the “Hypsilophodontid” Dinosaurs Orodromeus makelai, Dryosaurus altus, and Tenontosaurus tillettii (Ornythlschla: Euornithopoda) (2009) (63)
- THE SMALLEST KNOWN TRICERATOPS SKULL: NEW OBSERVATIONS ON CERATOPSID CRANIAL ANATOMY AND ONTOGENY (2006) (60)
- Footprints of the Komodo Monitor and the Trackways of Fossil Reptiles (1984) (57)
- Basal Dinosauriform Remains from Britain and the Diagnosis of the Dinosauria (2002) (53)
- A DIMINUTIVE PTEROSAUR (PTEROSAURIA: EUDIMORPHODONTIDAE) FROM THE GREENLANDIC TRIASSIC (2001) (51)
- Bone histology determines identification of a new fossil taxon of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) (1995) (51)
- Small pterosaurs and dinosaurs from the Uncompahgre fauna (Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation: ?Tithonian), Late Jurassic, western Colorado (1989) (49)
- Ontogenetic change and adult body size of the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus: Implications for basal ornithischian taxonomy (2010) (48)
- Presence of the dinosaur Scelidosaurus indicates Jurassic age for the Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group, northern Arizona) (1989) (48)
- Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods (2017) (48)
- ROM mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans (2018) (47)
- The trackmaker of Apatopus (Late Triassic, North America): implications for the evolution of archosaur stance and gait (2010) (44)
- Cross-Testing Adaptive Hypotheses: Phylogenetic Analysis and the Origin of Bird Flight1 (2001) (42)
- When is a bird not a bird? (1998) (40)
- How to Win the Evolution War: Teach Macroevolution! (2010) (38)
- Pterosaur Stance and Gait and the Interpretation of Trackways (2003) (37)
- A taxonomic note on two pterodactyloid families (1986) (37)
- On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse (2008) (36)
- THE FORGOTTEN MAN (2000) (36)
- AN AGENDA FOR ANTIQUITY: HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1890–1935 (2004) (35)
- The definition of sexual selection and its implications for dinosaurian biology (2011) (35)
- The ornithischian form genus Revueltosaurus from the Petrified Forest of Arizona (Late Triassic: Norian; Chinle Formation) (1990) (33)
- A hypothesis of differential secondary bone formation in dinosaurs (2015) (33)
- New light on Late Cretaceous pterosaur material from Montana (1992) (32)
- Pterosaur fossils from the Cretaceous of Chile: evidence for a pterosaur colony on an inland desert plain (1995) (31)
- Cladistics and the Fossil Record: The Uses of History (1994) (30)
- Misconceptions of sexual selection and species recognition: a response to Knell et al. and to Mendelson and Shaw. (2013) (29)
- Ratite Footprints and the Stance and Gait of Mesozoic Theropods (2007) (27)
- Origin of flight: Could ‘four-winged’ dinosaurs fly? (2005) (26)
- Darwin's enduring legacy (2008) (26)
- Were pterosaur ancestors bipedal or quadrupedal?: Morphometric, functional, and phylogenetic considerations (2008) (26)
- First record of a pterosaur landing trackway (2009) (25)
- The evolution of complex and higher organisms (1985) (24)
- Chapter 2. Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights (1986) (23)
- Pterosaur remains from the Kayenta Formation (?Early Jurassic) of Arizona (1984) (23)
- The species recognition hypothesis explains exaggerated structures in non-avialan dinosaurs better than sexual selection does (2014) (23)
- Evolution of ecosystems (1993) (23)
- THE ORIGIN OF PTEROSAURS (2007) (22)
- The problem of dinosaur origins: integrating three approaches to the rise of Dinosauria (2012) (22)
- The earliest known restoration of a pterosaur and the philosophical origins of Cuvier’s Ossemens Fossiles (2004) (21)
- Trickle-down evolution: an approach to getting major evolutionary adaptive changes into textbooks and curricula. (2008) (21)
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation (1986) (20)
- Typology versus transformation in the origin of birds (2002) (19)
- The little dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch (1996) (19)
- Vertebrate paleontology. (1981) (19)
- Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology (2021) (18)
- A proposal to standardize tetrapod phalangeal formula designations (1992) (18)
- Correcting some common misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media (2013) (16)
- Four-Winged Dinosaurs, Bird Precursors, or Neither? (2003) (15)
- Narrative and "Anti-narrative" in Science: How Scientists Tell Stories, and Don't. (2018) (15)
- Darwin, Dover, 'Intelligent Design' and textbooks. (2009) (15)
- The rehabilitation of Sir Richard Owen (1997) (13)
- The case of creation (2007) (12)
- Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction-Present and Past. (2018) (12)
- FEATHERS, FAKES, AND FOSSIL DEALERS: HOW THE COMMERCIAL SALE OF FOSSILS ERODES SCIENCE AND EDUCATION (2000) (11)
- The evolution of creationists in the United States: where are they now, and where are they going? (2009) (10)
- Regular ArticleEpigenetic mechanical factors in the evolution of long bone epiphyses (1998) (10)
- Vertebrate palaeohistology then and now: A retrospective in the light of the contributions of Armand de Ricqlès (2011) (10)
- / 20 Earliest records of d Batrachopus from the southwestern United States , and a revision of some Early Mesozoic crocodylomorph ichnogenera (2007) (10)
- Running, Leaping, Lifting Off (1982) (9)
- Evolutionary physiology: A bone for all seasons (2012) (9)
- How dinosaurs grew so large--and so small. (2005) (8)
- Structure and Evolution of the Ankle Bones in Pterosaurs and Other Ornithodirans (2017) (8)
- A new pterosaur record from the Judith River (Oldman) Formation of Alberta (1983) (8)
- First pterosaur records from Georgia; open marine facies, Eutaw Formation (Santonian) (1985) (8)
- The talented Mr. Wells (2002) (7)
- The opisthotonic posture of vertebrate skeletons (2007) (7)
- The interpretation of dinosaur growth patterns. (2006) (7)
- “Transitional forms” versus transitional features (2007) (7)
- Biological aerodynamics: Flight of fancy planned for the largest pterosaur (1984) (7)
- Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences (2020) (6)
- Inferring the physiological regimes of extinct vertebrates: methods, limits and framework (2020) (6)
- Triassic-jurassic extinctions. (1988) (6)
- Research applications and integration (2013) (6)
- Measuring and Comparing Extinction Events: Reconsidering Diversity Crises and Concepts. (2018) (6)
- Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions through Time (2004) (6)
- The growth trajectory and adult size of Lesothosaurus diagnosticus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): taxonomic implications (2007) (5)
- Ten Myths about Charles Darwin (2009) (5)
- The Possible Influences of Sudden Events on Biological Radiations and Extinctions (1984) (5)
- New Discoveries about Dinosaurs: Separating the Facts from the News. (1988) (4)
- For Darwin, ‘genealogy alone’did give classification (2004) (4)
- Transparency and openness in science (2017) (4)
- Reptilian offspring. (1994) (4)
- Darwin's sexual selection: Understanding his ideas in context (2014) (4)
- Battle of the bones (2000) (4)
- On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla” (2021) (4)
- Waiting for the Watchmaker (2002) (4)
- Functional Morphology of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) (2021) (4)
- Forerunners Of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology (2013) (3)
- Evolution and Deep Time in Selected Works of Hardy (2010) (3)
- Palaeontology: Dividing the dinosaurs (2017) (3)
- The new antievolution - and what to do about it. (1997) (3)
- Reviews and Commentaries (2000) (3)
- Early bird in slow motion (1996) (3)
- Mystery ape: a call for taxonomic rigour (2009) (3)
- Truth or Consequences? Engaging the “Truth” of Evolution (2009) (3)
- Dinosaur tracks in the computer age (1999) (3)
- D. Lessem: Kings of Creation (1993) (2)
- An Incipient Synthesis (1997) (2)
- Origins of Darwin’s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle through Time and Place. By J. David Archibald (2018) (2)
- Which science book should the next US president read? (2008) (2)
- Palaeontology: Dinosaur up in the air (2015) (2)
- Structural fibers of the pterosaur wing: anatomy and aerodynamics (1991) (2)
- Archosauromorpha: Avemetatarsalia – Dinosaurs and Their Relatives (2021) (2)
- Ordering Organisms (1994) (2)
- A Review of “Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology”: edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, 2012. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 330 + xvi pp. US$60, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-253-35697-0. (2013) (2)
- A Home for Bambiraptor (2000) (2)
- Expert witness: the scientists who testified against intelligent design (2005) (2)
- Structural fibres in the pterosaur wing: anatomy and aerodynamics (1993) (2)
- “Richard Owen’s Quadrophenia: The Pull of Opposing Forces in Victorian Cosmogony” (2019) (2)
- The Whole Real Guts of Evolution? (1989) (1)
- Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA.Edited byWilliam A Dembskiand, Michael Ruse. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $45.00. xv + 405 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐521‐82949‐6. 2004. (2005) (1)
- Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin Of Birds (2009) (1)
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould. MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, Cambridge (2002), Pp 1433. $39.95., ISBN: 0 674 00613 5 (2002) (1)
- Evolution’s past and future: an introduction and partial précis to Stephen Jay Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2003) (1)
- Comments on the ICZN proposed amendment on electronic-only publications (2009) (1)
- Evolution's evolution (1997) (1)
- Jane Pierce Davidson: The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope (1998) (1)
- A missing Hunterian lecture on vertebrae by Richard Owen, 1837 (1995) (1)
- Bird, Dinosaur Link (1998) (1)
- Owen's Parthian shot (2001) (1)
- Growth rings in dinosaur teeth (1980) (1)
- Correcting some common misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media (2013) (1)
- Rereading the Fossil Record • David Sepkoski (2013) (1)
- Human evolution’s ties to tectonics (2019) (1)
- On the Track of the Dinosaurs (1986) (1)
- Case 3728 — Quetzalcoatlus northropi (Reptilia, Pterosauria): proposed availability and attribution of authorship to lawson, 1975 (2017) (1)
- Evolution: Doing the locomotion (2016) (1)
- Summer books (2015) (1)
- Why the origin of flight is rocket science (2003) (1)
- What the Media Don't Tell You About Evolution. (2000) (1)
- Creationist Geology and Intuition: Isn't Science Just Common Sense?. (1997) (1)
- Evolutionary insights from an ancient bird (2018) (0)
- Vertebrate Paleontology: Aspects of Vertebrate History . Essays in Honor of Edwin Colbert. Louis L. Jacobs, Ed. Museum of Northern Arizona Press, Flagstaff, 1980. xx, 408 pp., illus. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $9.95. (1981) (0)
- Fossils and Paleobiology (2006) (0)
- 29. Dinosaur Physiology (2019) (0)
- Evolutionary insights from an ancient bird (2018) (0)
- Darwin, Dover, and Intelligent Design (2009) (0)
- David Norman, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (1986) (0)
- Simon Knell. The Culture of English Geology, 1815-51: A science revealed through its collecting. 2000. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 377 + xxi pp. (2001) (0)
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. By Steve Brusatte. New York: HarperCollins Publishers (William Morrow). $29.99. xii + 404 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-06-249042-1. 2018. (2019) (0)
- Reptilians past. (1991) (0)
- Book Review:The Message of Fossils. Pascal Tassy, Nicholas Hartmann (1994) (0)
- Description of Plate I. (2007) (0)
- An Enlightened Buffon@@@Buffon: A Life in Natural History (1999) (0)
- Policy tips: six more practical pointers (2013) (0)
- Ceratopsians: The Horned Dinosaurs. (1996) (0)
- REVIEWERS FOR THE AUK, 2003 (2003) (0)
- From Geologizer to Theorist (2018) (0)
- A Tangled Tale Of Ancient Avians (1998) (0)
- Other Books of Interest: Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States. (1996) (0)
- Lessons from the "Intelligent Design" trial: Explaining evolution and climate science in a "post-evidentiary world". (2019) (0)
- Human evolution’s ties to tectonics (2019) (0)
- An Enlightened Buffon (2011) (0)
- Poultry through time (2020) (0)
- Book Review:Vertebrate Flight: Mechanics, Physiology, Morphology, Ecology and Evolution. Zoophysiology, Volume 27. U. M. Norberg (1990) (0)
- Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States . Martin Lockley and Adrian P. Hunt. Artwork by Paul Koroshetz. Columbia University Press, New York, 1995. xxii, 338 pp., illus. $29.95 or £21.50. (1996) (0)
- Dissecting RoomA magisterial valedictoryStephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, Cambridge (2002), Pp 1433. $39.95., ISBN: 0 674 00613 5 (2002) (0)
- David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmolska (Eds.): The Dinosauria (1991) (0)
- Michael Novacek. Time Traveler: In search of dinosaurs and ancient mammals from Montana to Mongolia. 2002. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 368 + xii p. (2002) (0)
- Book Review:The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism Niles Eldredge (2001) (0)
- History: Creator — or creationist? (2013) (0)
- How to educate the anti–evolutionist (2002) (0)
- On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla” (2021) (0)
- :Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008) (0)
- Science visualization: Branching arguments (2014) (0)
- Reply from k. Padian and e.C. Scott. (1997) (0)
- Dinosaurs digging deeper (2007) (0)
- Book Review:The Complete Dinosaur. James O. Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman (1998) (0)
- Structural fibers of the pterosaur wing (1993) (0)
- Dinos all around (2000) (0)
- Ceratopsians: The Horned Dinosaurs . A Natural History. Peter Dodson. Artwork by W. D. Barlowe and R. Walters. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996. xiv, 346 pp., illus., + plates. $35 or £23. (1996) (0)
- The Origin of Dinosaurs and the Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (1989) (0)
- THE PAUCITY OF “MASS EXTINCTION” THEORY: AN ANALYSIS OF DIVERSITY CRISES (2017) (0)
- Charles Darwin’s Views of Classication in Theory and Practice (2001) (0)
- Mammalian would-bes (1999) (0)
- The Tree of Life • edited by Pablo Vargas and Rafael Zadoya (2015) (0)
- Martin J. S. Rudwick: Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones and Geological Catastrophes (1998) (0)
- Convergent Evolution • George R McGhee (2012) (0)
- Closest relatives found for pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates (2020) (0)
- Book Review:Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe Martin Lockley, Christian Meyer (2001) (0)
- The age of transformation: the Triassic Period and the rise of today's land vertebrate fauna (2015) (0)
- In retrospect chosen by Kevin Padian (1997) (0)
- A magisterial valedictory Stephen Jay Gould The Structur (2002) (0)
- Comment. Dinosaurs digging deeper. (2007) (0)
- Did Adam Have a Navel (1998) (0)
- A Question of Emotional Baggage (1997) (0)
- The Origin and Evolution of Mammals.ByT S Kemp.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $149.95 (hardcover); $74.50 (paper). x + 331 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–19–850760–7 (hc); 0–19–850761–5 (pb). 2005. (2005) (0)
- Poultry through time (2020) (0)
- A Repopulation. (Book Reviews: After the Ice Age. The Return of Life to Glaciated North America.) (1991) (0)
- ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction – Present and Past Journal Item (2019) (0)
- To Review or Not to Review? That Is the Question (2019) (0)
- Chapter IV - A Cretaceous End to a Lost World (2000) (0)
- Works Title How to Win the Evolution War : Teach Macroevolution ! Permalink (2010) (0)
- Darwin ’ s Views of Classi cation in Theory and Practice (2001) (0)
- DEBORAH CADBURY, The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World. London: Fourth Estate, 2000. Pp. x + 374. ISBN 1–85702–959–3. £15.99. (2001) (0)
- 25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs (2023) (0)
- Evolution: Parallel lives (2017) (0)
- Kevin Padian (2009) (0)
- Why tyrannosaur forelimbs were so short: an integrative hypothesis (2022) (0)
- Supplementary material from "ROM mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans" (2018) (0)
- Fallacies of Creationism.Willard Young (1988) (0)
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