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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1962 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James W. Valentine is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary research domain lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific focus on Paleontology.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

James W. Valentine has published research in venues such as:

  • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology

One of their recent publications is "Suppressed speciation rates and compositional changes in Paleozoic faunas," published in 2022 in the Spanish Journal of Palaeontology.

Over the course of their career, Valentine has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1962 and 2002
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1984
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968

Best Publications

  • Out of the Tropics: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

    David Jablonski;Kaustuv Roy;James W. Valentine

  • Evolutionary paleoecology of the marine biosphere

    James W. Valentine

  • Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: Tests of causal hypotheses

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;James W. Valentine;Gary Rosenberg

  • Phanerozoic marine diversity and the fossil record

    J. John Sepkoski;Richard K. Bambach;David M. Raup;James W. Valentine

  • On the Origin of Phyla

    James W. Valentine

  • Plate-tectonic Regulation of Faunal Diversity and Sea Level: a Model

    Valentine Jw;Moores Em

  • Fossils, molecules and embryos: new perspectives on the Cambrian explosion

    James W. Valentine;David Jablonski;Douglas H. Erwin

  • Patterns of taxonomic and ecological structure of the shelf benthos during Phanerozoic time

    James W. Valentine

  • Morphological complexity increase in metazoans

    James W. Valentine;Allen G. Collins;C. Porter Meyer

  • NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF MARINE MOLLUSCAN RANGES ON THE EXTRATROPICAL NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC SHELF1

    James W. Valentine

  • A comparative study of diversification events: the early Paleozoic versus the Mesozoic.

    Douglas H. Erwin;James W. Valentine;J. John Sepkoski

  • GENETIC VARIATION IN TRIDACNA MAXIMA, AN ECOLOGICAL ANALOG OF SOME UNSUCCESSFUL EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGES.

    Francisco J. Ayala;Dennis Hedgecock;Gary S. Zumwalt;James W. Valentine

  • Scales of climatic variability and time averaging in Pleistocene biotas: implications for ecology and evolution.

    Kaustuv Roy;James W. Valentine;David Jablonski;Susan M. Kidwell

  • The impact of the pull of the recent on the history of marine diversity.

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  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

    Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  • Equilibrium Models of Evolutionary Species Diversity and the Number of Empty Niches

    Timothy D. Walker;James W. Valentine

  • Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient

    David Jablonski;Christina L. Belanger;Sarah K. Berke;Shan Huang

  • Dissecting latitudinal diversity gradients: functional groups and clades of marine bivalves

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;James W. Valentine

  • Global Tectonics and the Fossil Record

    James W. Valentine;Eldridge M. Moores

  • Eastern Pacific molluscan provinces and latitudinal diversity gradient: no evidence for "Rapoport's rule".

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;James W. Valentine

  • DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION OF METAZOAN BODYPLANS : THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE

    James W. Valentine;Douglas H. Erwin;David Jablonski

  • Phanerozoic diversity patterns : profiles in macroevolution

    James W. Valentine

Frequent Co-Authors

David Jablonski
David Jablonski University of Chicago
Kaustuv Roy
Kaustuv Roy University of California, San Diego
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine
Jere H. Lipps
Jere H. Lipps University of California, Berkeley
Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin National Museum of Natural History
Allen Gilbert Collins
Allen Gilbert Collins National Museum of Natural History
J. John Sepkoski
J. John Sepkoski University of Chicago
Dennis Hedgecock
Dennis Hedgecock University of Southern California
Eldridge M. Moores
Eldridge M. Moores University of California, Davis
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky University of California, Davis

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