Erwin, Douglas
Former Senior Research Biologist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates
0000-0003-2518-5614
Erwin, Douglas
Former 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
Education And Training
Awards And Honors
- Elected Fellow, conferred by American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Enquist, Brian J., Erwin, Douglas H., Savage, Van, and Marquet, Pablo A. 2024. "Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379, (1902) 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0010. 2024
- Shen, Shu-zhong, Yuan, Dong-xun, Zhang, Yi-Chun, Henderson,Charles, M., Zheng, Quan-feng, Zhang, Hua, Zhang, Min, Dai, Yu, Xu, Hai-peng, Wang, Wen-qian, Li, Qian, Wang, Yue, Wang, Xiang-Dong, Mu, Lin, Ramezani, Jahandar, Erwin, Douglas H., Angiolini, Lucia, Zhang, Fei-fei, Hou, Zhang-shuai, Chen, Jun, Zhang, Xi-yang, Zhang, Shu-han, Wu, Qiong, Pan, Yong-xin, Stephenson, Michael et al. 2023. "Redefinition of the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) and new Standard Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype (SABS) for the base of Wuchiapingian Stage (Lopingian Series, Permian) in South China." Episodes, https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2023/023023. 2023
- Zhang, Shu-han, Shen, Shu-zhong, and Erwin, Douglas H. 2022. "Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates." Geology, 50, (10) 1166–1171. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50110.1. 2022
- Shen, Shu-zhong, Yuan, Dong-xun, Henderson, Charles M., Lambert, Lance L., Zhang, Yi-Chun, Erwin, Douglas H., Ramezani, Jahandar, Wang, Xiang-Dong, Zhang, Hua, Wu, Qiong, Wang, Wen-qian, Hearst, Jonena M., Chen, Jun, Wang, Yue, Qie, Wen-kun, Qi, Yu-ping, and Wardlaw, Bruce R. 2022. "The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Capitanian Stage (Guadalupian, Middle Permian)." Episodes, 45, (3) 309–331. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2022/022004. 2022
- Zhang, Shu-han, Shen, Shu-zhong, and Erwin, Douglas H. 2022. "Two cosmopolitanism events driven by different extreme paleoclimate regimes." Global and Planetary Change, 216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103899. 2022
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2021. "Developmental capacity and the early evolution of animals." Journal of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-245. 2021
- Evans, Scott D., Droser, Mary L., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2021. "Developmental processes in Ediacara macrofossils." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, (1945). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3055. 2021
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2021. "Tempos and modes of collectivity in the history of life." Theory in Biosciences, 140 343–351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-019-00303-4. 2021
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2020. "A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation." Biological Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12643. 2020
- Fan, Jun-xuan, Shen, Shu-zhong, Erwin, Douglas H., Sadler, Peter M., Macleod, Norman, Cheng, Qiu-ming, Hou, Xu-dong, Yang, Jiao, Wang, Xiang-Dong, Wang, Yue, Zhang, Hua, Chen, Xu, Li, Guo-xiang, Zhang, Yi-Chun, Shi, Yu-kun, Yuan, Dong-xun, Chen, Qing, Zhang, Lin-na, Li, Chao, and Zhao, Ying-ying. 2020. "A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity." Science, 367, (6475) 272–277. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4953. 2020
- Wu, Qiong, Ramezani, Jahandar, Zhang, Hua, Yuan, Dong-xun, Erwin, Douglas H., Henderson, Charles M., Lambert, Lance L., Zhang, Yi-Chun, and Shen, Shu-zhong. 2020. "High-precision U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Guadalupian in West Texas, USA." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 548 Article 109668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109668. 2020
- Cole, Devon B., Mills, Daniel B., Erwin, Douglas H., Sperling, Erik A., Porter, Susannah M., Reinhard, Christopher T., and Planavsky, Noah J. 2020. "On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals." Geobiology, 18, (3) 260–281. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12382. 2020
- Shen, Shu-zhong, Yuan, Dong-xun, Henderson, Charles M., Wu, Qiong, Zhang, Yi-Chun, Zhang, Hua, Mu, Lin, Ramezani, Jahandar, Wang, Xiang-Dong, Lambert, Lance L., Erwin, Douglas H., Hearst, Jonena M., Xiang, Lei, Chen, Bo, Fan, Jun-xuan, Wang, Yue, Wang, Wen-qian, Qi, Yu-ping, Chen, Jun, Qie, Wen-kun, and Wang, Tian-tian. 2020. "Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America." Earth-Science Reviews, 211 103412–103412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103412. 2020
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2020. "The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome." Development, 147, (4) Article–dev182899. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.182899. 2020
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2019. "Crisis and Response: Current Trends and Future Prospects." Bollettino Della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 58, (1) 5–10. 2019
- Drinnenberg, Ines A., Berger, Frederic, Elsasser, Simon J., Andersen, Peter R., Ausio, Juan, Bickmore, Wendy A., Blackwell, Alexander R., Erwin, Douglas H., Gahan, James M., Gaut, Brandon S., Harvey, Zachary H., Henikoff, Steven, Kao, Joyce Y., Kurdistani, Siavash K., Lemos, Bernardo, Levine, Mia T., Luger, Karolin, Malik, Harmit S., Martin-Duran, Jose M., Peichel, Catherine L., Renfree, Marilyn B., Rutowicz, Kinga, Sarkies, Peter, Schmitz, Robert J., Technau, Ulrich et al. 2019. "EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution." Development, 146, (19) UNSP dev178962–UNSP dev178962. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.178962. 2019
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2019. "Prospects for a General Theory of Evolutionary Novelty." Journal of Computational Biology, 26, (7). https://doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2019.0089. 2019
- Shen, Shu-zhong, Ramezani, Jahandar, Chen, Jun, Cao , Chang-Qun, Erwin, Douglas H., Zhang, Hua, Xiang, Lei, Schoepfer, Shane D., Henderson, Charles M., Zheng, Quan-feng, Bowring, Samuel A., Wang, Yue, Li, Xian-Hua, Wang, Xiang-Dong, Yuan, Dong-xun, Zhang, Yi-Chun, Mu, Lin, Wang, Jun, and Wu, Ya-Sheng. 2018. "A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China." Geological Society of America Bulletin, 131, (1-2) 205–223. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31909.1. 2018
- Summons, Roger E. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2018. "Chemical clues to the earliest animal fossils Steroid biomarkers show that the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia was an animal." Science, 361, (6408) 1198–1199. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau9710. 2018
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2018. "Conservation Paleobiology. Science and Practice edited by Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa, University of Chicago Press, 2017. Price: $40, 9780226506722." Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, (8) 572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.05.009. 2018
- Darroch, Simon A. F., Smith, Emily F., Laflamme, Marc, and Erwin, Douglas H. 2018. "Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion." Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, (9) 653–663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.06.003. 2018
- Wood, Rachel and Erwin, Douglas H. 2018. "Innovation not recovery: dynamic redox promotes metazoan radiations." Biological Reviews, 93, (2) 863–873. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12375. 2018
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2017. "Developmental push or environmental pull? The causes of macroevolutionary dynamics." History and philosophy of the life sciences, 39, (4) 36–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0163-0. 2017
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2017. "Eric Davidson and deep time." History and philosophy of the life sciences, 39, (4) 29–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0156-z. 2017
- Hoffman, Paul F., Abbot, Dorian S., Ashkenazy, Yosef, Benn, Douglas I., Brocks, Jochen J., Cohen, Phoebe A., Cox, Grant M., Creveling, Jessica R., Donnadieu, Yannick, Erwin, Douglas H., Fairchild, Ian J., Ferreira, David, Goodman, Jason C., Halverson, Galen P., Jansen, Malte F., Le Hir, Guillaume, Love, Gordon D., Macdonald, Francis A., Maloof, Adam C., Partin, Camille A., Ramstein, Gilles, Rose, Brian E. J., Rose, Catherine V., Sadler, Peter M., Tziperman, Eli et al. 2017. "Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology." Science Advances, 3, (11). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600983. 2017
- Chipman, Ariel D. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2017. "The Evolution of Arthropod Body Plans: Integrating Phylogeny, Fossils, and Development-An Introduction to the Symposium." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 57, (3) 450–454. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx094. 2017
- McInerney, James O. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2017. "The role of public goods in planetary evolution." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375, (2109). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0359. 2017
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2017. "The topology of evolutionary novelty and innovation in macroevolution." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 372, (1735). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0422. 2017
- Darroch, Simon A. F., Boag, Thomas H., Racicot, Rachel A., Tweedt, Sarah, Mason, Sara J., Erwin, Douglas H., and Laflamme, Marc. 2016. "A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 459 198–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.003. 2016
- Bhattacharya, Debashish, Agrawal, Shobhit, Aranda, Manuel, Baumgarten, Sebastian, Belcaid, Mahdi, Drake, Jeana L., Erwin, Douglas H., Foret, Sylvian, Gates, Ruth D., Gruber, David F., Kamel, Bishoy, Lesser, Michael P., Levy, Oren, Liew, Yi Jin, MacManes, Matthew, Mass, Tali, Medina, Monica, Mehr, Shaadi, Meyer, Eli, Price, Dana C., Putnam, Hollie M., Qiu, Huan, Shinzato, Chuya, Shoguchi, Eiichi, Stokes, Alexander J. et al. 2016. "Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals." eLife, 5, (e13288). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13288. 2016
- Reinhard , Christopher T., Planavsky, Noah J., Olson, Stephanie L., Lyons, Timothy W., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2016. "Earth's oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (32) 8933–8938. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521544113. 2016
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2016. "Eric, evolution and bodyplans." Developmental biology, 412, (2) S33–S34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.01.024. 2016
- Chen, Jun, Shen, Shu-zhong, Li, Xian-Hua, Xu, Yi-gang, Joachimski, Michael M., Bowring, Samuel A., Erwin, Douglas H., Yuan, Dong-xun, Chen, Bo, Zhang, Hua, Wang, Yue, Cao, Chang-qun, Zheng, Quan-feng, and Mu, Lin. 2016. "High-resolution SIMS oxygen isotope analysis on conodont apatite from South China and implications for the end-Permian mass extinction." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 448, (26) 38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.11.025. 2016
- Carrasquillo, Anthony J., Cao, Changqun, Erwin, Douglas H., and Summons, Roger E. 2016. "Non-detection of C-60 fullerene at two mass extinction horizons." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 176 18–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.12.017. 2016
- Arendt, Detlev, Musser, Jacob M., Baker, Clare V. H., Bergman, Aviv, Cepko, Connie, Erwin, Douglas H., Pavlicev, Mihaela, Schlosser, Gerhard, Widder, Stefanie, Laubichler, Manfred D., and Wagner, Gü. 2016. "The origin and evolution of cell types." Nature Reviews.Genetics, 17 744–757. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg.2016.127. 2016
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "A public goods approach to major evolutionary innovations." Geobiology, 13, (4) 308–315. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12137. 2015
- Darroch, Simon A. F., Sperling, Erik A., Boag, Thomas H., Racicot, Rachel A., Mason, Sara J., Morgan, Alex S., Tweedt, Sarah M., Myrow, Paul, Johnston, David T., Erwin, Douglas H., and Laflamme, Marc. 2015. "Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1814) 20151003. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1003. 2015
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "David M. Raup (1933–2015)." Nature, 524, (7563) 36–36. https://doi.org/10.1038/524036a. 2015
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Early metazoan life: divergence, environment and ecology." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 370, (1684) 20150036. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0036. 2015
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Eric Davidson (1937–2015)." Science, 350, (6260) 517. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6065. 2015
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Eric Davidson (1937–2015)." Current Biology, 25, (20) R968–R969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.034. 2015
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life." Current Biology, 25, (19). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.019. 2015
- Hull, Pincelli M., Darroch, Simon A. F., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems." Nature, 528, (7582) 345–351. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16160. 2015
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Was the Ediacaran–Cambrian radiation a unique evolutionary event?" Paleobiology, 41, (01) 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2014.2. 2015
- Day, Michael O., Ramezani, Jahandar, Bowring, Samuel A., Sadler, Peter M., Erwin, Douglas H., Abdala, Fernando, and Rubidge, Bruce S. 2015. "When and how did the terrestrial mid-Permian mass extinction occur? Evidence from the tetrapod record of the Karoo Basin, South Africa." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1811). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0834. 2015
- Odling-Smee, John, Erwin, Douglas H., Palkovacs, Eric P., Feldman, Marcus W., and Laland, Kevin N. 2013. "Niche Construction Theory: A Practical Guide for Ecologists." The Quarterly review of biology, 88, (1) 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1086/669266. 2013
- Laflamme, Marc, Darroch, Simon A. F., Tweedt, Sarah M., Peterson, Kevin J., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2012. "The End of the Ediacara Biota: Extinction, Biotic Replacement, or Cheshire Cat?" Gondwana Research, 23, (2) 558–573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2012.11.004. 2012
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2011. "A Paleontological Look at History." Cliodynamics, 2, (1) 27–39. 2011
- Shen, Shu-zhong, Crowley, James L., Wang, Yue, Bowring, Samuel A., Erwin, Douglas H., Sadler, Peter M., Cao, Chang-qun, Rothman, Daniel H., Henderson, Charles M., Ramezani, Jahandar, Zhang, Hua, Shen, Yanan, Wang, Xiang-Dong, Wang, Wei, Mu, Lin, Li, Wen-Zhong, Tang, Yue-Gang, Liu, Xiao-Lei, Liu, Lu-Jun, Zeng, Yong, Jiang, Yao-Fa, and Jin, Yu-Gan. 2011. "Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction." Science, 334, (6061) 1367–1372. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1213454. 2011
- Erwin, Douglas H. and Tweedt, Sarah M. 2011. "Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa." Evolutionary Ecology, 26, (2) 417–433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-011-9505-7. 2011
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2011. "Evolutionary uniformitarianism." Developmental biology, 357, (1) 27–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.01.020. 2011
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2011. "Macroevolution: Dynamics of Diversity." Current Biology, 21, (24) R1000–R1001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.007. 2011
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2011. "Novelties that change carrying capacity." Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 318, (6) 460–465. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.21429. 2011
- Erwin, Douglas H., Laflamme, Marc, Tweedt, Sarah M., Sperling, Erik A., Pisani, Davide, and Peterson, Kevin J. 2011. "The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals." Science, 334, (6059) 1091–1097. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1206375. 2011
- Krakauer, David C., Collins, James P., Erwin, Douglas H., Flack, Jessica C., Fontana, Walter, Laubichler, Manfred D., Prohaska, Sonja J., West, Geoffrey B., and Stadler, Peter F. 2011. "The challenges and scope of theoretical biology." Journal of theoretical biology, 276, (1) 269–276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.051. 2011
- Maloof, Adam C., Rose, Catherine V., Beach, Robert, Samuels, Bradley M., Calmet, Claire C., Erwin, Douglas H., Poirier, Gerald R., Yao, Nan, and Simons, Frederik J. 2010. "Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia." Nature Geoscience, 3 653–659. 2010
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "La terre en pleines transformations." La Recherche, 428 39–42. 2009
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "A call to the custodians of deep time." Nature, 462, (7271) 282–283. https://doi.org/10.1038/462282a. 2009
- Davidson, E. H. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "An Integrated View of Precambrian Eumetazoan Evolution." Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 74 65–80. 2009
- Olszewski, Thomas D. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "Change and Stability in Permian Brachiopod Communities from Western Texas." Palaios, 24, (1) 27–40. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2008.p08-061r. 2009
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "Climate as a Driver of Evolutionary Change." Current Biology, 19, (14) R575–R583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.047. 2009
- Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios, 24, (1-2) 1–4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01. 2009
- Krakauer, D. C., Page, K., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "Diversity,dilemmas and monopolies of niche construction." American Naturalist, 173 26–40. 2009
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 364, (1527) 2253–2261. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0038. 2009
- Davidson, Eric H. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2009. "Evolutionary innovation and stability in animal gene networks." Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 314B, (3) 182–186. 2009
- Erwin, Douglas H. and Davidson, E. H. 2009. "The evolution of hierarchical gene regulatory networks." Nature Reviews Genetics, 10 141–148. 2009
- Dunne, J. A., Williams, R. J., Martinez, N. D., Wood, R. A., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2008. "Compilation and network analysis of Cambrian Food webs." PLoS Biology, 6, (4) 693–708. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060102. 2008
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2008. "Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 11520–11527. 2008
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2008. "Macroevolution of ecosystem engineering, niche construction and diversity." Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, (6) 304–310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.01.013. 2008
- Clauset, A. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2008. "The evolution and distribution of species body size." Science, 321 399–401. 2008
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2008. "Wonderful Ediacarans, wonderful cnidarians?" Evolution & development, 10, (3) 263–264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00234.x. 2008
- Bambach, Richard K., Bush, Andrew M., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Autecology and the filling of ecospace: Key metazoan radiations." Palaeontology, 50 1–22. 2007
- Bambach, Richard K., Bush, A. M., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Autecology and the realized ecospace of marine metazoa." Palaeontology, 50 1–22. 2007
- Zhang, X. L., Shu, D. G., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Cambrian Naraoiids (Arthropoda)." Journal of Paleontology Memoir, 68 52. 2007
- Zhang, X. -L, Shu, D. -G, and Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Cambrian naraoiids (arthropoda): Morphology, ontogeny, systematics, and evolutionary relationships." Journal of Paleontology, 81, (5) 1–52. https://doi.org/10.1666/06-082.1. 2007
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Disparity: Morphological patterns and developmental context." Palaeontology, 50 57–73. 2007
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Increasing returns, ecological feedback and the Early Triassic recovery." Palaeoworld, 16 9–15. 2007
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Book
- Erwin, Douglas H. and Valentine, James. 2013. The Cambrian explosion : the construction of animal biodiversity. Greenwood Village, Colorado: Roberts and Company. 2013
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Chapter
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2020. "Evolutionary dynamics of gene regulation." In Gene Regulatory Networks. Peter, I. S., editor. 407–431. London, England: Academic Press Limited-Elsevier Science Limited. In Current Topics in Developmental Biology, 139. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2020.02.006. 2020
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2016. "Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation." In Chance in Evolution. 279–298. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2016
- Tweedt, Sarah M. and Erwin, Douglas H. 2015. "Origin of Metazoan Developmental Toolkits and Their Expression in the Fossil Record." In Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life. Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki and Nedelcu, Aurora M., editors. 47–77. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 2 in Advances in Marine Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9642-2_3. 2015
- Bush, Andrew M., Bambach, Richard K., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2011. "Ecospace Utilization During the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-explosion." In Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life : Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Laflamme, Marc, Schiffbauer, James D., and Dornbos, Stephen Q., editors. 111–133. Springer Netherlands. 36 in Topics in Geobiology. 2011
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Review
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2022. [Book review] "Origin and Evolution of Metazoan Cell Types. Evolutionary Cell Biology Series, edited by Sally Leys an Andreas Hejnol." Quarterly Review of Biology, 97, (3), 231–232. https://doi.org/10.1086/721511. 2022
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2020. [Book review] "The Invertebrate Tree of Life, by Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe." Quarterly Review of Biology, 95, (4), 336–337. https://doi.org/10.1086/711777. 2020
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2016. [Book review] "The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, Developmental and Ecological Perspectives.– by T. S. Kemp." Systematic Biology, 65, (3), 558–559. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw017. 2016
- Simpson, Carl and Erwin, Douglas H. 2014. [Book review] "Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation." Science, 344, (6189), 1234–1235. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1254407. 2014
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. [Book review] "Endless forms most beautiful." Artificial Life, 13, (1), 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl.2007.13.1.87. 2007
- Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. [Book review] "Survival of the Fittest." American Scientist, 95, 76–77. 2007
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
- Phanerozoic invertebrate marine macrofossils
Affiliation
Member Of
- Santa Fe Institute External Professor 2001 -
- NMNH - Dept. of Paleobiology
