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K. Christopher Beard

K. Christopher Beard

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Ecology and Evolution

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4592
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Overview

K. Christopher Beard is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on paleontology, evolution, and related fields. Their work spans several interconnected disciplines including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, geophysics, anthropology, and social psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Key recent publications by K. Christopher Beard include:

  • "Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure," 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "The earliest Asian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) address major gaps in bat evolution," 2021, Biology Letters
  • "Sedimentary Provenance From the Evolving Forearc-to-Foreland Central Sakarya Basin, Western Anatolia Reveals Multi-Phase Intercontinental Collision," 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "An omomyid primate from the Pontide microcontinent of north-central Anatolia: Implications for sweepstakes dispersal of terrestrial mammals during the Eocene," 2020, Geobios
  • "Phylogeny and systematics of early Paleogene bats," 2024, Journal of Mammalian Evolution

The venues where they have published most frequently include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America (8 publications)
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (4 publications)
  • Journal of Mammalian Evolution (3 publications)
  • Journal of Human Evolution (3 publications)
  • Earth-Science Reviews (2 publications)

K. Christopher Beard regularly collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Alexis Licht
  • Pauline Coster
  • Faruk Ocakoğlu
  • Grégoire Métais
  • Megan Mueller

Best Publications

  • The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

    Xijun(倪喜军) Ni;Xijun(倪喜军) Ni;Daniel L. Gebo;Marian Dagosto;Jin(孟津) Meng

  • Gliding behaviour and palaeoecology of the alleged primate family Paromomyidae (Mammalia, Dermoptera)

    K. Christopher Beard

  • Earliest complete dentition of an anthropoid primate from the late middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China

    K. Christopher Beard;Yongsheng Tong;Mary R. Dawson;Jingwen Wang

  • Phylogenetic Systematics of the Primatomorpha, with Special Reference to Dermoptera

    K. Christopher Beard

  • Intercontinental dispersal of Holarctic land mammals near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary; paleogeographic, paleoclimatic and biostratigraphic implications

    K. Christopher Beard;Mary R. Dawson

  • Laonastes and the "Lazarus Effect" in Recent Mammals

    Mary R. Dawson;Laurent Marivaux;Chuan-kui Li;K. Christopher Beard

  • Interrelationships among primate higher taxa

    K. Christopher Beard;Marian Dagosto;Daniel L. Gebo;Marc Godinot

  • The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

    K. Christopher Beard

  • New wrist bones of Proconsul africanus and P. nyanzae from Rusinga Island, Kenya.

    K. Christopher Beard;Mark F. Teaford;Alan Walker

  • Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids

    Jean-Jacques Jaeger;K Christopher Beard;Yaowalak Chaimanee;Mustafa Salem

  • Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution.

    Xijun Ni;Qiang Li;Lüzhou Li;K. Christopher Beard

  • Origin and Evolution of Gliding in Early Cenozoic Dermoptera (Mammalia, Primatomorpha)

    K. Christopher Beard

  • Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa

    Yaowalak Chaimanee;Olivier Chavasseau;K. Christopher Beard;Aung Aung Kyaw

  • Middle Eocene primate tarsals from China: implications for haplorhine evolution.

    Daniel L. Gebo;Marian Dagosto;K. Christopher Beard;Tao Qi

  • The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates

    Daniel L. Gebo;Marian Dagosto;K. Christopher Beard;Tao Qi

  • Cranial Anatomy of Shoshonius and the Antiquity of Anthropoidea

    K. Christopher Beard;R. D. E. MacPhee

  • The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China

    K.Christopher Beard;Jingwen Wang

  • ESCHERICHIA COLI Gene Induction by Alkylation Treatment

    Michael R. Volkert;Dinh C. Nguyen;K. Christopher Beard

  • Early Wasatchian Mammals of the Red Hot Local Fauna, Uppermost Tuscahoma Formation, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

    K. Christopher Beard;Mary R. Dawson

  • Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 14. Postcranium of Shoshonius cooperi (Mammalia: Primates)

    Marian Dagosto;Daniel L Gebo;K Christopher Beard

  • New Sivaladapid Primates from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar and the Anthropoid Status of Amphipithecidae

    K. Christopher Beard;Laurent Marivaux;Soe Thura Tun;Aung Naing Soe

  • Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier.

    James B. Rossie;Xijun Ni;K. Christopher Beard

Frequent Co-Authors

Yaowalak Chaimanee
Yaowalak Chaimanee University of Poitiers
Jean-Jacques Jaeger
Jean-Jacques Jaeger University of Poitiers
Laurent Marivaux
Laurent Marivaux University of Montpellier
Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Mark F. Teaford
Mark F. Teaford RMIT University
Timothy D. Smith
Timothy D. Smith Slippery Rock University
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Zhe-Xi Luo
Zhe-Xi Luo University of Chicago
John J. Flynn
John J. Flynn American Museum of Natural History
Peter Wilf
Peter Wilf Pennsylvania State University

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