Mammal Evolution and Morphology Group
Lionel Hautier (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Vera Warmuth (PhD student)
Eva Bärmann (PhD student)
Nick Crumpton (PhD student)
Israel M Sánchez (MNCN Madrid)
Thomas Lehmann (Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt)
research and natural history links
EU Support for your collection visits:
Afrotheria Specialist Group:
NSF Mammal Tree of Life:
Interested in Postgraduate Studies in Zoology (MPhil, PhD) at the University of Cambridge?
Check out how to obtain support from the
University of Cambridge
UK research councils
Gates Foundation
National Science Foundation (for US citizens/nationals)
recent and forthcoming publications
Asher
RJ, Bennett N, Lehmann T. 2009. The new framework for understanding
placental mammal evolution. Bioessays
31(8): 853-864. See also supplementary data
in .xls format (version on Wiley website rendered near-illegible by
copyeditors)
Asher
RJ, Olbricht G. 2009. Dental ontogeny in Macroscelides proboscideus (Afrotheria)
and Erinaceus europaeus (Lipotyphla).
J
Mamm
Evol 16:99-115.
Benton
MJ, Donoghue PCJ, Asher RJ. 2009. Calibrating and constraining
molecular clocks. pp. 35-86 in Hedges SB and Kumar S. (Eds.) The
Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press.
Asher
RJ, Lehmann T. 2008. Dental eruption in afrotherian mammals. BMC Biol
6:14.
(See also accompanying commentary in J
Biology.)
Asher
RJ, Geisler J, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Morphology,
paleontology, and placental mammal phylogeny. Syst
Biol 57(2):311–317.
Asher
RJ. 2007. A database of
morphological characters and a
combined-data reanalysis of placental mammal phylogeny. BMC
Evol
Biol 7:108. The database is also hosted here.
Wible
JW, Rougier GW, Novacek MJ, Asher
RJ. 2007. Cretaceous Eutherians and Laurasian Origin for Placental
Mammals near K/T Boundary. Nature
447:1003-1006. Listen to the nature podcast
for 21 June 2007.
Asher RJ, Meng J, Wible JR, McKenna MC,
Rougier GW, Dashzeveg D, and Novacek MJ. 2005. Stem Lagomorpha and the Antiquity of Glires. Science 307: 1091-1094. Click for the abstract
or full
text.
Publication list
for RJA
online data
Morphological image database from Asher 2007 BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:108.
Tenrecid dataset from Asher and Hofreiter 2006 Systematic Biology 55(2): 181-194.
Gomphos dataset from Asher et al. 2005 Science 307: 1091-1094.
Marsupial dataset from Asher et al. 2004 MPE 33: 240-250.
Morphological dataset for Apternodus and other N. American fossils, from Asher et al., 2002, Bulletin AMNH vol. 243.
Erratum from Asher RJ. 2005. Insectivoran-Grade Placental mammals: Character Evolution and Fossil History. pp. 50-70 in The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origin and Relationships of the Major Clades. K.D. Rose and J.D. Archibald (eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press.
Corrected Fig. 9A from Asher RJ, Emry RJ, and McKenna MC. 2005. New material of Centetodon (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) and the importance of (missing) DNA sequences in systematic paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):911–923.
teaching & conservation resources
Part II Mammalian Evolution (Lent 2009)
Part 1B Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology
(available within cam.ac.uk or by validation)
Univ. Michigan's Animal Diversity Web
The Smithsonian's Mammal Species of the World
NCBI GenBank Taxonomy
Ankizy fund, Education and healthcare in Madagascar thanks to David Krause and Stony Brook University
Afrotherian Conservation
Fauna and Flora International
World Wildlife Fund
The Sierra Club
Optimum Population Trust
Population Connection (formerly zero population growth)
Cambridge Conservation Forum
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