Erwin, Douglas
Senior Research Biologist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates
Macroevolution and evolutionary innovations, particularly the Cambrian metazoan radiation and post-extinction biotic recoveries; the Permian mass extinction; evolutionary history and systematics of Cambrian-Triassic gastropods.
Background And Education
Research And Grants
Publications
selected publications
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article
- Developmental capacity and the early evolution of animals 2021
- Developmental processes in Ediacara macrofossils 2021
- A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation 2020
- A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity 2020
- High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Guadalupian in West Texas, USA 2020
- On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals 2020
- Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America 2020
- The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome 2020
- Crisis and Response: Current Trends and Future Prospects 2019
- EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution 2019
- Prospects for a General Theory of Evolutionary Novelty 2019
- Tempos and modes of collectivity in the history of life 2019
- A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China 2018
- Chemical clues to the earliest animal fossils Steroid biomarkers show that the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia was an animal 2018
- Conservation Paleobiology. Science and Practice edited by Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa, University of Chicago Press, 2017. Price: $40, 9780226506722 2018
- Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion 2018
- Innovation not recovery: dynamic redox promotes metazoan radiations 2018
- Developmental push or environmental pull? The causes of macroevolutionary dynamics 2017
- Eric Davidson and deep time 2017
- Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology 2017
- The Evolution of Arthropod Body Plans: Integrating Phylogeny, Fossils, and Development-An Introduction to the Symposium 2017
- The role of public goods in planetary evolution 2017
- The topology of evolutionary novelty and innovation in macroevolution 2017
- A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia 2016
- Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals 2016
- Earth's oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life 2016
- Eric, evolution and bodyplans 2016
- High-resolution SIMS oxygen isotope analysis on conodont apatite from South China and implications for the end-Permian mass extinction 2016
- Non-detection of C-60 fullerene at two mass extinction horizons 2016
- The origin and evolution of cell types 2016
- A public goods approach to major evolutionary innovations 2015
- Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota 2015
- David M. Raup (1933–2015) 2015
- Early metazoan life: divergence, environment and ecology 2015
- Eric Davidson (1937–2015) 2015
- Eric Davidson (1937–2015) 2015
- Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life 2015
- Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems 2015
- Was the Ediacaran–Cambrian radiation a unique evolutionary event? 2015
- When and how did the terrestrial mid-Permian mass extinction occur? Evidence from the tetrapod record of the Karoo Basin, South Africa 2015
- Niche Construction Theory: A Practical Guide for Ecologists 2013
- The End of the Ediacara Biota: Extinction, Biotic Replacement, or Cheshire Cat? 2012
- A Paleontological Look at History 2011
- Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction 2011
- Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa 2011
- Evolutionary uniformitarianism 2011
- Macroevolution: Dynamics of Diversity 2011
- Novelties that change carrying capacity 2011
- The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals 2011
- The challenges and scope of theoretical biology 2011
- Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia 2010
- La terre en pleines transformations 2009
- A call to the custodians of deep time 2009
- An Integrated View of Precambrian Eumetazoan Evolution 2009
- Change and Stability in Permian Brachiopod Communities from Western Texas 2009
- Climate as a Driver of Evolutionary Change 2009
- Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology 2009
- Diversity,dilemmas and monopolies of niche construction 2009
- Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit 2009
- Evolutionary innovation and stability in animal gene networks 2009
- The evolution of hierarchical gene regulatory networks 2009
- Compilation and network analysis of Cambrian Food webs 2008
- Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history 2008
- Macroevolution of ecosystem engineering, niche construction and diversity 2008
- The evolution and distribution of species body size 2008
- Wonderful Ediacarans, wonderful cnidarians? 2008
- Autecology and the filling of ecospace: Key metazoan radiations 2007
- Autecology and the realized ecospace of marine metazoa 2007
- Cambrian Naraoiids (Arthropoda) 2007
- Cambrian naraoiids (arthropoda): Morphology, ontogeny, systematics, and evolutionary relationships 2007
- Disparity: Morphological patterns and developmental context 2007
- Increasing returns, ecological feedback and the Early Triassic recovery 2007
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book
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chapter
- Evolutionary dynamics of gene regulation 2020
- Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation 2016
- Origin of Metazoan Developmental Toolkits and Their Expression in the Fossil Record 2015
- Ecospace Utilization During the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-explosion 2011
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review
- The Invertebrate Tree of Life, by Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe 2020
- The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, Developmental and Ecological Perspectives.– by T. S. Kemp 2016
- Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation 2014
- Endless forms most beautiful 2007
- Survival of the Fittest 2007
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
- Phanerozoic invertebrate marine macrofossils
Affiliation
member of
- Santa Fe Institute External Professor 2001 -
- NMNH - Dept. of Paleobiology
Other
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
