P. David Polly

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P. David Polly is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, Queen Mary University of London

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According to Wikipedia, Paul David Polly is an American paleontologist and the Robert R. Shrock Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University as well as the sitting chair of the department.

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PHYLOGENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS OF MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION: SKULL, MANDIBLE, AND MOLAR SHAPE IN MARMOTS (MARMOTA, RODENTIA) (2005) (250)
Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems (2017) (244)
The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time (2014) (238)
The Influence of Modularity on Cranial Morphological Disparity in Carnivora and Primates (Mammalia) (2010) (194)
Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures (2009) (186)
Geometric morphometrics: recent applications to the study of evolution and development (2010) (164)
Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form (2013) (159)
Limbs in Mammalian Evolution (2006) (136)
Multigenic and morphometric differentiation of ground squirrels (Spermophilus, Scuiridae, Rodentia) in Turkey, with a description of a new species. (2007) (126)
Phylogenetic Principal Components Analysis and Geometric Morphometrics (2013) (116)
Evolution of the snake body form reveals homoplasy in amniote Hox gene function (2015) (114)
Developmental Dynamics and G-Matrices: Can Morphometric Spaces be Used to Model Phenotypic Evolution? (2008) (107)
Paleontology and the Comparative Method: Ancestral Node Reconstructions versus Observed Node Values (2001) (102)
Methods for Studying Morphological Integration and Modularity (2010) (101)
PALEOPHYLOGEOGRAPHY: THE TEMPO OF GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENTIATION IN MARMOTS (MARMOTA) (2003) (97)
Pleistocene Climate, Phylogeny, and Climate Envelope Models: An Integrative Approach to Better Understand Species' Response to Climate Change (2011) (95)
History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology (2011) (95)
On morphological clocks and paleophylogeography: towards a timescale for Sorex hybrid zones (2004) (91)
Ecometrics: the traits that bind the past and present together. (2010) (90)
Combining Geometric Morphometrics and Finite Element Analysis with Evolutionary Modeling: Towards a Synthesis (2016) (89)
MORPHOLOGICAL INTEGRATION IN THE HOMININ DENTITION: EVOLUTIONARY, DEVELOPMENTAL, AND FUNCTIONAL FACTORS (2012) (88)
The skeleton ofGazinocyon vulpeculusgen. et comb. nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia) (1996) (82)
Adaptive Zones and the Pinniped Ankle: A Three-Dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Carnivoran Tarsal Evolution (2008) (78)
Carnivoran Evolution: Tiptoeing through the trophics: geographic variation in carnivoran locomotor ecomorphology in relation to environment (2010) (72)
Variability in mammalian dentitions: size-related bias in the coefficient of variation (1998) (72)
ON THE SIMULATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL SHAPE : MULTIVARIATE SHAPE UNDER SELECTION AND DRIFT (2004) (68)
Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation (2013) (65)
Development and phenotypic correlations: the evolution of tooth shape in Sorex araneus (2005) (65)
Evolutionary biology: Development with a bite (2007) (64)
HIGH RATES OF EVOLUTION PRECEDED THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS (2014) (63)
Cope's Rule (1998) (62)
No known hominin species matches the expected dental morphology of the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans (2013) (62)
Variability, selection, and constraints: development and evolution in viverravid (Carnivora, Mammalia) molar morphology (1998) (60)
LOCOMOTION IN FOSSIL CARNIVORA: AN APPLICATION OF EIGENSURFACE ANALYSIS FOR MORPHOMETRIC COMPARISON OF 3D SURFACES (2008) (60)
Evaluating the Significance of Paleophylogeographic Species Distribution Models in Reconstructing Quaternary Range-Shifts of Nearctic Chelonians (2013) (57)
High-Density Morphometric Analysis of Shape and Integration: The Good, the Bad, and the Not-Really-a-Problem (2019) (55)
Shape, variance and integration during craniogenesis: contrasting marsupial and placental mammals (2012) (52)
Detecting biological distinctiveness using geometric morphometrics: an example case from the Vancouver Island marmot (2009) (50)
The Ecology of Morphology: The Ecometrics of Locomotion and Macroenvironment in North American Snakes (2012) (49)
Fossils reveal the complex evolutionary history of the mammalian regionalized spine (2018) (49)
The Fossil Calibration Database-A New Resource for Divergence Dating. (2015) (47)
Phylogeographic differentiation in Sorex araneus : morphology in relation to geography and karyotype (2007) (46)
Response to environmental factors and competition: skull, mandible and tooth shapes in Polish water shrews (Neomys, Soricidae, Mammalia) (2006) (44)
Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution (2017) (43)
Do Developmental Constraints and High Integration Limit the Evolution of the Marsupial Oral Apparatus? (2016) (43)
Differential sexual dimorphism: size and shape in the cranium and pelvis of grey foxes (Urocyon) (2009) (42)
Biogeographic Analysis Using Geometric Morphometrics: Clines in Skull Size and Shape in a Widespread African Arboreal Monkey (2010) (41)
Dissociation of somatic growth from segmentation drives gigantism in snakes (2007) (40)
From Card Catalogs to Computers: Databases in Vertebrate Paleontology (2013) (38)
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America, Michael O. Woodburne (Ed.). Columbia University Press, New York (2004), 391 pp., Cloth, $95.00, ISBN: 0-231-13040-6 (2004) (38)
Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming (1997) (36)
EARLIEST KNOWN CARNIVORAN AUDITORY BULLA AND SUPPORT FOR A RECENT ORIGIN OF CROWN‐GROUP CARNIVORA (EUTHERIA, MAMMALIA) (2006) (35)
New records of terrestrial mammals from the Upper Eocene Qasr El Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt (1996) (35)
Evolutionary acceleration in the most endangered mammal of Canada: speciation and divergence in the Vancouver Island marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae) (2007) (35)
Maximum-likelihood identification of fossils: taxonomic identification of Quaternary marmots (Rodentia, Mammalia) and identification of vertebral position in the pipesnake Cylindrophis (Serpentes, Reptilia) (2004) (35)
Extinction, Extirpation, and Exotics: Effects on the Correlation between Traits and Environment at the Continental Level (2014) (34)
15 – Mammal Associations in the Pleistocene of Britain: Implications of Ecological Niche Modelling and a Method for Reconstructing Palaeoclimate (2011) (33)
SMALL VERTEBRATES FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS AND EARLY TERTIARY OF THE NORTHEASTERN ARAL SEA REGION, KAZAKHSTAN (2001) (32)
Community functional trait composition at the continental scale: the effects of non‐ecological processes (2017) (32)
On the Occlusal Fit of Tribosphenic Molars: Are We Underestimating Species Diversity in the Mesozoic? (2005) (32)
Influence of atrypid morphological shape on Devonian episkeletobiont assemblages from the lower Genshaw formation of the Traverse Group of Michigan: A geometric morphometric approach (2011) (31)
Paleophylogeography of Sorex araneus (Insectivora, Soricidae): molar shape as a morphological marker for fossil shrews (2003) (30)
Cladistics and the Fossil Record: The Uses of History (1994) (30)
Cross-validated Between Group PCA Scatterplots: A Solution to Spurious Group Separation? (2020) (28)
Environmental, trophic, and ecological factors influencing bone collagen δ2H (2013) (27)
Phenotypic Variation across Chromosomal Hybrid Zones of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus) Indicates Reduced Gene Flow (2013) (27)
Clade sorting has a greater effect than local adaptation on ecometric patterns in Carnivora (2017) (27)
Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond (2011) (26)
SELECTION IN A CYCLING POPULATION: DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE AMONG SKELETAL TRAITS (2006) (26)
Fossils matter - understanding modes and rates of trait evolution in Musteloidea (Carnivora) (2017) (25)
Including Fossils in Phylogenetic Climate Reconstructions: A Deep Time Perspective on the Climatic Niche Evolution and Diversification of Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus) (2016) (24)
Ecometrics: A Trait-Based Approach to Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (2018) (23)
Development and evolution occlude: evolution of development in mammalian teeth. (2000) (23)
PALEOPHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF SOREX ARANEUS : MOLAR SHAPE AS A MORPHOLOGICAL MARKER FOR FOSSIL SHREWS (2003) (23)
PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN MORPHOSPACE: GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS (2016) (21)
For studyIng MorPhologIcal IntegratIon and ModularIty (2010) (21)
Giant boid snake from the Paleocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures (2011) (19)
The influence of character correlations on phylogenetic analyses: A case study of the carnivoran cranium (2013) (18)
Of mice and mutations: Phenotypic effects of the diabetic db/db and ob/ob mutations on the skull and teeth of mice (2008) (18)
Functional Tradeoffs Carry Phenotypes Across the Valley of the Shadow of Death. (2020) (17)
Processes of ecometric patterning: modelling functional traits, environments, and clade dynamics in deep time (2016) (16)
ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RHIPIDOMELLA (ORTHIDES, BRACHIOPODA) AND ITS ENDOSKELETOBIONTS AND PREDATORS FROM THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN DUNDEE FORMATION OF OHIO, UNITED STATES (2010) (16)
Stops making sense: translational trade-offs and stop codon reassignment (2011) (15)
Morphological integration and modularity in the hyperkinetic feeding system of aquatic‐foraging snakes (2020) (15)
Shrews, Chromosomes and Speciation (2019) (15)
Gene networks, occlusal clocks, and functional patches: new understanding of pattern and process in the evolution of the dentition (2015) (14)
Using left-right asymmetry to estimate non-genetic variation in vole teeth ( Arvicolinae , Muridae , Rodentia ) (2011) (14)
The Evolution of Enamel Microstructure: How Important Is Amelogenin? (2000) (14)
Climate and morphological change on decadal scales: Multiannual variation in the common shrew Sorex araneus in northeast Russia (2010) (14)
Heritability: the link between development and the microevolution of molar tooth form (2018) (12)
Morphological Integration and Modularity in the Hyperkinetic Feeding System of Aquatic-foraging Snakes (2020) (12)
Epigenetic variation of the common shrew, Sorex araneus , in different habitats (2007) (11)
On the Misidentification of Species: Sampling Error in Primates and Other Mammals Using Geometric Morphometrics in More Than 4000 Individuals (2021) (10)
Phylogenetic tests for differences in shape and the importance of divergence times: Eldredge‚Äôs enigma explored (2002) (10)
Adaptive radiation of damselfishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) in the eastern Pacific (2015) (10)
Stable isotopes of H, C and N in mice bone collagen as a reflection of isotopically controlled food and water intake* (2019) (9)
Marmot evolution and global change in the past 10 million years (2015) (9)
A new genus Eurotherium (Mammalia, Creodonta) in reference to taxonomic problems with some Eocene Hyaenodontids from Eurasia (1993) (8)
The evolution of relative trait size and shape: insights from the genitalia of dung beetles (2018) (7)
History of Paleontology (2002) (7)
Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth (2012) (6)
A Reevaluation of the Harrodsburg Crevice Fauna (Late Pleistocene of Indiana, U.S.A.) and the Climatic Implications of Its Mammals (2013) (6)
Spermophilus torosensis Ozkurt et al. , 2007 (Sciuridae, Rodentia) is a subjective junior synonym of Spermophilus taurensis Gunduz et al. , 2007, a newly described ground squirrel from the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey (2007) (6)
Morphometrics and evolution: the challenge of crossing rugged phenotypic landscapes with straight paths (2017) (5)
Measuring the evolution of body size in mammals (2012) (5)
Quantitative genetics provides predictive power for paleontological studies of morphological evolution (2016) (5)
An integrated assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on Indiana forests (2019) (5)
Spatial processes and evolutionary models: a critical review (2018) (5)
Geometric Morphometric Tests for Phenotypic Divergence Between Chromosomal Races (2019) (5)
Head et al. reply (2009) (5)
A Bayesian extension of phylogenetic generalized least squares: Incorporating uncertainty in the comparative study of trait relationships and evolutionary rates (2019) (5)
Is the middle cranial fossa a reliable predictor of temporal lobe volume in extant and fossil anthropoids? (2020) (5)
Bite Force in Four Pinniped Species from the West Coast of Baja California, Mexico, in Relation to Diet, Feeding Strategy, and Niche Differentiation (2020) (4)
Phylogenetics for Mathematica (Ver. 2.1) (2012) (4)
Ecometrics and Neogene faunal turnover: the roles of cats and hindlimb morphology in the assembly of carnivoran communities in the New World (2020) (4)
Taxonomic and evolutionary pattern revisions resulting from geometric morphometric analysis of Pennsylvanian Neognathodus conodonts, Illinois Basin (2018) (4)
Geometric Morphometrics for Mathematica (Ver. 9.0) (2012) (4)
Fossil herbivores and crocodiles as paleoclimatic indicators of environmental shifts from Bed I and Bed II times of the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2018) (3)
Climate and Competition Shape Species' Borders: A Study of the Panamint (Crotalus stephensi) and Speckled (Crotalus mitchellii) Rattlesnakes (2012) (3)
On Information Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices (2021) (3)
Twenty Years Online! A brief history of Palaeontologia Electronica (2015) (3)
Indiana's Future Forests: A Report from the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment (2018) (3)
Temporal lobe evolution in Javanese Homo erectus and African Homo ergaster: Inferences from the cranial base (2020) (3)
Chapter 11 Phylogenetic tests for differences in shape and the importance of divergence times (2002) (3)
Modularity for Mathematica (2010) (3)
Stable Isotope Applications in Bone Collagen with Emphasis on Deuterium/Hydrogen Ratios (2012) (2)
Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth (2012) (2)
Land mammals form eight functionally and climatically distinct faunas in North America but only one in Europe (2018) (2)
Climate, Diversification and Refugia in the Common Shrew: Evidence from the Fossil Record (2019) (2)
Evolution: Stuck between the teeth (2013) (2)
THE FOSSIL CALIBRATION DATABASE: A NEW BIOINFORMATIC TOOL FOR DATING DIVERGENCES OF EXTANT LINEAGES BY SYNTHESIZING PALEONTOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA (2012) (2)
Towards an improved understanding of the ecological and economic consequences of climate change for Indiana forests (2018) (2)
Genetics , development , and palaeontology interlock (2)
Morphometrics in paleontology (2013) (1)
Evolutionary studies: Genetics, development, and palaeontology interlock (2006) (1)
The role of dispersal, selection intensity, and extirpation risk in resilience to climate change: A trait‐based modelling approach (2022) (1)
Chapter 15. Limbs in Mammalian Evolution (2019) (1)
Announcing the Fossil Calibration Series and Database (2015) (1)
Breeding at higher latitude is associated with higher photoperiodic threshold and delayed reproductive development in a songbird (2020) (1)
Editors' Note (2005) (1)
Editors' Note (2005) (1)
Trait-based extinction catches the Red Queen napping during the Cambrian (2014) (1)
COMING OF AGE: ISI & GOOGLING (2006) (1)
COMBININGGEOMETRICMORPHOMETRICS AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS WITH EVOLUTIONARYMODELING : TOWARDA SYNTHESIS (2016) (0)
Molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic status of the large-eared desert shrew Notiosorex evotis (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) (2022) (0)
A HETEROCHRONIC LINE OF LEAST EVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE MEDIATES FUNCTIONAL TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN HYDRODYNAMIC AND FEEDING PERFORMANCE IN THE CINCINNATIAN BRACHIOPOD VINLANDOSTROPHIA SPP. (2020) (0)
Who Reads Palaeontologia Electronica Anyway (1998) (0)
X-ray microtomographic studies in 3D of bones, teeth and engineering materials (2002) (0)
RADICAL SHIFTS IN THE EVOLUTION TOWARDS THE SABERTOOTH CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY (2018) (0)
Gene networks, occlusal clocks, and functional patches: new understanding of pattern and process in the evolution of the dentition (2015) (0)
Cross-validated Between Group PCA Scatterplots: A Solution to Spurious Group Separation? (2020) (0)
Introduction: Paleomammalogy In Honor of Professor Emeritus William Alvin Clemens, Jr. (2005) (0)
The evolution of relative trait size and shape: insights from the genitalia of dung beetles (2018) (0)
Geometric Morphometrics (2018) (0)
XRCT SCANS REVEAL UNUSUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LUMBAR VERTEBRAE IN EXTINCT MAMMALS (2021) (0)
The University of Chicago Paleontology and the Comparative Method : Ancestral Node Reconstructions versus Observed (2001) (0)
Adaptive radiation of damselfishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) in the eastern Pacific (2015) (0)
Detecting Mismatch in Functional Narratives of Animal Morphology: a Test Case With Fossils. (2022) (0)
Postcrania and paleobiology of Patriofelis ulta (Mammalia, Oxyaenodonta) of the Bridgerian (lower–middle Eocene) of North America (2021) (0)
EARTH SYSTEMS, EUSTASY, AND EVOLUTION: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE EFFECTS OF SEA LEVEL CHANGE ON TRAIT EVOLUTION AND MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY IN BERMUDAN LAND SNAILS (2016) (0)
Lineage-specific patterns of brain expansion and dental reduction in hominins (2016) (0)
Author Correction: Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form (2018) (0)
People are like their Dogs (2010) (0)
Vertebrate Functional Traits as Proxies for Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment (2015) (0)
Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth (2012) (0)
Remember to Chew your Food: New Paradigms for the Evolution of Mastication (2021) (0)
Author Correction: Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form (2018) (0)
EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT OF THE DIVERSIFICATION OF AVIAN LIMBS (2018) (0)
On Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices (2020) (0)
MOVE OR CHANGE? THE PARADOX BETWEEN ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES TO CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS (2017) (0)
A review ofWhat is Biodiversity ?, by James MacLaurin and Kim Sterelny (2009) (0)
DIGITAL ACCESS(ION) OF THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY PALEONTOLOGY COLLECTION: LEVERAGING RESOURCES FROM GEOINFORMATICS, DISTRIBUTED CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE, CITIZEN SCIENCE, AND AUGMENTED REALITY (2017) (0)
Remember to Chew your Food: New Paradigms for the Evolution of Mastication (2021) (0)
NON-AVIAN THEROPOD SKULL MORPHOLOGY TENTATIVELY SUPPORTS ONTOGENETIC NICHE SHIFT AMONG NORTH AMERICAN TYRANNOSAURIDS (2021) (0)
Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities (2023) (0)
SHIFTING PATTERNS OF FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION DURING THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT IN THEROPODS (2018) (0)
The antecedents of punctuated equilibria (2015) (0)
A cautionary note on quantitative measures of phenotypic convergence (2023) (0)
Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans. (2023) (0)
Macroevolution, Quantitative Genetics and (2016) (0)
Extinction and Radiation • J David Archibald (2012) (0)
BROAD CITIZEN-SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT, ENHANCED PRESERVATION OF METADATA, AND PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY OF INDIANA’S FOSSIL RECORD USING AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL REPOSITORY AND COLLECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING A DISTRIBUTED FRAMEWORK CONNECTED BY DARWIN CORE (2016) (0)
Editors’ acknowledgements (2010) (0)
Marsupial responses to global aridification (2018) (0)
The politics of palaeontology: the creation, reduction, and restoration of Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments (2022) (0)
Retraction to: Molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic status of the large-eared desert shrew Notiosorex evotis (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae), with the designation of a neotype (2021) (0)
EARTH-LIFE TRANSITIONS, ORGANISMAL-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS, AND THE KEY ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL TRAITS (2018) (0)
Modern Foraminifera Attached to Hexactinellid Sponge Meshwork on the West Canadian Shelf: How They Compare with Their Jurassic Counterparts in Europe (PDF) 9.1.3A (2006) (0)
FossilCalibrations: The Fossil Calibrations Database at Palaeontologia Electronica (2015) (0)
USING GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS TO TEST SPECIES IDENTIFICATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF CONODONT EVOLUTION IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN, MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN (2016) (0)
PALEONTOLOGY AND US NATIONAL MONUMENTS: WHY DOWNSIZING GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE AND BEARS EARS IS BAD FOR SCIENCE (2018) (0)
Retraction to: Molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic status of the large-eared desert shrew Notiosorex evotis (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae), with the designation of a neotype (2021) (0)

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