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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Jennifer A. Clack was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research contributed notably to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Anthropology as subfields.

The scientific topics covered by their work included Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Frequent collaborators with Jennifer A. Clack included:

  • Timothy R. Smithson
  • Marcello Ruta
  • Stephanie E. Pierce
  • Esther L. Beeby
  • Blake V. Dickson

Research was published regularly in several venues, including:

  • Fossil Record
  • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Nature
  • Science Advances

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jennifer A. Clack include:

  • Functional adaptive landscapes predict terrestrial capacity at the origin of limbs, 2020, Nature
  • Evolution of forelimb musculoskeletal function across the fish-to-tetrapod transition, 2021, Science Advances
  • The smallest known Devonian tetrapod shows unexpectedly derived features, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • A review of the stem amniote Eldeceeon rolfei from the Viséan of East Kirkton, Scotland, 2020, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • A Mississippian (early Carboniferous) tetrapod showing early diversification of the hindlimbs, 2022, Communications Biology

Jennifer A. Clack was recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, becoming a Fellow in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Gaining Ground - The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods

    Jennifer A. Clack

  • Polydactyly in the earliest known tetrapod limbs

    M. I. Coates;J. A. Clack

  • Fish-like gills and breathing in the earliest known tetrapod

    M. I. Coates;J. A. Clack

  • Lower jaws, lower tetrapods–a review based on the Devonian genus Acanthostega

    Per Erik Ahlberg;Jennifer A. Clack

  • Devonian climate change, breathing, and the origin of the tetrapod stem group.

    Jennifer A. Clack

  • An early tetrapod from ‘Romer's Gap’

    J. A. Clack

  • The axial skeleton of the Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega

    Per Erik Ahlberg;Jennifer A. Clack;Henning Blom;Henning Blom

  • The Fin to Limb Transition: New Data, Interpretations, and Hypotheses from Paleontology and Developmental Biology

    Jennifer A. Clack

  • Pederpes finneyae, an articulated tetrapod from the tournaisian of Western Scotland

    J. A. Clack;S. M. Finney

  • ROMER's gap: tetrapod origins and terrestriality

    Michael I. Coates;Jennifer A. Clack

  • Discovery of the earliest-known tetrapod stapes.

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  • A uniquely specialized ear in a very early tetrapod.

    J. A. Clack;Per E. Ahlberg;Per E. Ahlberg;S. M. Finney;P. Dominguez Alonso

  • Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology

    Per E. Ahlberg;Jennifer A. Clack;Ervīns Lukševičs;Henning Blom

  • Rapid braincase evolution between Panderichthys and the earliest tetrapods

    Per E. Ahlberg;Jennifer A. Clack;Ervīns Luks̆evic̆s

  • Devonian tetrapod trackways and trackmakers; a review of the fossils and footprints

    J.A. Clack

  • An amniote-like skeleton from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland

    R. L. Paton;T. R. Smithson;J. A. Clack

  • Earliest Carboniferous tetrapod and arthropod faunas from Scotland populate Romer's Gap

    Timothy R. Smithson;Stanley P. Wood;John E. A. Marshall;Jennifer A. Clack

  • Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna

    Jennifer A. Clack;Carys E. Bennett;David K. Carpenter;Sarah J. Davies

  • Palaeogeography: Devonian tetrapod from western Europe.

    Gaël Clément;Per E Ahlberg;Alain Blieck;Henning Blom

  • Earliest known tetrapod braincase and the evolution of the stapes and fenestra ovalis

    J. A. Clack

  • Palaeontology: A firm step from water to land

    Per Erik Ahlberg;Jennifer A. Clack

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. A. Marshall
John E. A. Marshall University of Southampton
John R. Hutchinson
John R. Hutchinson Royal Veterinary College
Michael I. Coates
Michael I. Coates University of Chicago
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Richard A. Ketcham
Richard A. Ketcham The University of Texas at Austin
Charles B. Kimmel
Charles B. Kimmel University of Oregon
John A. Long
John A. Long Flinders University
Adrian M. Lister
Adrian M. Lister Natural History Museum
Andrew C. Scott
Andrew C. Scott Royal Holloway University of London

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