Hunt, Gene
Research Geologist and Curator of Ostracoda
Hunt, Gene
Research Geologist and Curator of Ostracoda
Deep-sea Ostracoda; macroevolution; quantitative approaches in paleontology.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., Duke University
- M.S., University of Chicago
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2017
- Charles Schuchert Award , conferred by Paleontological Society, 2012
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- Did sexual selection hinder survival of ostracode species through the K/Pg mass extinction? awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
- Does sexual selection promote speciation and extinction? A test using the fossil record of ostracodes awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- missing activity
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Liow, Lee Hsiang, Uyeda, Josef, and Hunt, Gene. 2023. "Cross-disciplinary information for understanding macroevolution." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38, (3) 250–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.013. 2023
- Evans, Scott D., Hunt, Gene, Gehling, James G., Sperling, Erik A., and Droser, Mary L. 2023. "Species of Dickinsonia Sprigg from the Ediacaran of South Australia." Palaeontology, 66, (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12635. 2023
- Puckett, Terry Markham and Hunt, Gene. 2022. "New Taxa of Marine Ostracods (Anticytherideinae, n. subfam.) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, U. S. Gulf Coastal Plain." Micropaleontology, 68, (5) 433–504. https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.68.5.01. 2022
- Huang, Huai-Hsuan May, Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Okahashi, Hisayo, and Hunt, Gene. 2022. "Poseidonamicus (Ostracoda) from the North Atlantic Ocean." Micropaleontology, 68, (3) 257–271. https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.68.3.05. 2022
- Samuels-Fair, Maya, Martins, Maria João Fernandes, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Hunt, Gene. 2022. "Temporal shifts in ostracode sexual dimorphism from the Late Cretaceous to the late Eocene of the US Coastal Plain." Marine Micropaleontology, 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101959. 2022
- Love, Alan C., Grabowski, Mark, Houle, David, Liow, Lee Hsiang, Porto, Arthur, Tsuboi, Masahito, Voje, Kjetil L., and Hunt, Gene. 2021. "Evolvability in the fossil record." Paleobiology, https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.36. 2021
- Chiu, Wing-Tung Ruby, Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Hunt, Gene, Gemery, Laura, and Wei, Chih-Lin. 2020. "Marine latitudinal diversity gradients, niche conservatism and out of the tropics and Arctic: Climatic sensitivity of small organisms." Journal of Biogeography, 47, (4) 817–828. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13793. 2020
- Martins, Maria João Fernandes, Hunt, Gene, Thompson, Carmi Milagros, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Puckett, T. M. 2020. "Shifts in sexual dimorphism across a mass extinction in ostracods: implications for sexual selection as a factor in extinction risk." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287, (1933) Article 20200730. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0730. 2020
- Evangelista Nogueira, Anna Andressa, Feijo Ramos, Maria Ines, and Hunt, Gene. 2019. "Taxonomy of Ostracods from the Pirabas Formation (Upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene), Eastern Amazonia (Para State, Brazil)." Zootaxa, 4573, (1) 1– . https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4573.1.1. 2019
- Benson, Roger B. J., Hunt, Gene, Carrano, Matthew T., and Campione, Nicolas. 2018. "Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution." Palaeontology, 61, (1) 13–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12329. 2018
- Collins, K. S., Edie, S. M., Hunt, Gene, Roy, K., and Jablonski, D. 2018. "Extinction risk in extant marine species integrating palaeontological and biodistributional data." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, (1887) 285–285. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1698. 2018
- Martins, Maria Joao Fernandes, Puckett, T. Markham, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Hunt, Gene. 2018. "High male sexual investment as a driver of extinction in fossil ostracods." Nature, 556, (7701) 366– . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0020-7. 2018
- Sibert, Elizabeth, Friedman, Matt, Hull, Pincelli, Hunt, Gene, and Norris, Richard. 2018. "Two pulses of morphological diversification in Pacific pelagic fishes following the Cretaceous - Palaeogene mass extinction." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, (1888) 20181194–20181194. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1194. 2018
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Iwatani, Hokuto, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, Kase, Tomoki, Hayashi, Hiroki, Irizuki, Toshiaki, Aguilar, Yolanda M., Fernando, Allan Gil S., and Renema, Willem. 2017. "Cenozoic dynamics of shallow-marine biodiversity in the Western Pacific." Journal of Biogeography, 44, (3) 567–578. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12880. 2017
- Fernandes Martins, Maria João, Hunt, Gene, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Horne, David J. 2017. "Correlation between investment in sexual traits and valve sexual dimorphism in Cyprideis species (Ostracoda)." PloS One, 12, (7) 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177791. 2017
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, and Okahashi, Hisayo. 2017. "Quaternary deep-sea ostracods from the north-western Pacific Ocean: global biogeography and Drake-Passage, Tethyan, Central American and Arctic pathways." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17, (2) 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1393019. 2017
- Hunt, Gene, Martins, M. Joao Fernandes, Puckett, T. Markham, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., Hall, Christine M. S., and Stedman, James. 2017. "Sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in cytheroidean ostracodes from the Late Cretaceous of the US Coastal Plain." Paleobiology, 43, (4) 620–641. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2017.19. 2017
- Hunt, Gene. 2017. "Species Concepts in the Rocks." Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-017-9393-x. 2017
- Hunt, Gene and Slater, Graham J. 2016. "Integrating Paleontological and Phylogenetic Approaches to Macroevolution." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 47, (1) 189–213. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054207. 2016
- Bush, Andrew M., Hunt, Gene, and Bambach, Richard K. 2016. "Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (49) 14073–14078. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610726113. 2016
- Hunt, Gene, Hopkins, Melanie J., and Lidgard, Scott. 2015. "Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, (16) 4885–4890. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403662111. 2015
- Hunt, Gene and Rabosky, Daniel L. 2014. "Phenotypic Evolution in Fossil Species: Pattern and Process." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 42, (1) 421–441. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152524. 2014
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Okahashi, Hisayo, Cronin, Thomas M., Rasmussen, Tine L., and Hunt, Gene. 2014. "Response of deep-sea biodiversity to abrupt deglacial and Holocene climate changes in the North Atlantic Ocean." Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, (9) 957–967. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12178. 2014
- Rivadeneira, Marcelo M., Hunt, Gene, and Roy, Kaustuv. 2014. "The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: Reply." Ecology, 95, (1) 238–239. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1088.1. 2014
- Van Bocxlaer, Bert and Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Morphological stasis in an ongoing gastropod radiation from Lake Malawi." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, (34) 13892–13897. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308588110. 2013
- Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Presentation of the 2012 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Gene Hunt Response." Journal of Paleontology, 87, (3) 532–533. https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360-87.3.530. 2013
- Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis." Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, (8) 714–723. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12085. 2013
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandão, Simone N. 2013. "The 'Oxycythereis' problem: taxonomy and palaeobiogeography of deep-sea ostracod genera Pennyella and Rugocythereis." Palaeontology, 56, (5) 1045–1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12035. 2013
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, T. M., Hokanishi, N., Kawahata, H., Tsujimoto, A., and Ishitake, M. 2012. "Climatic forcing of Quaternary deep-sea benthic communities in the North Pacific Ocean." Paleobiology, 38, (1) 162–179. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c1q30. 2012
- Fusco, Giuseppe, Garland, Theodore, Jr., Hunt, Gene, and Hughes, Nigel C. 2012. "Developmental trait evolution in trilobites." Evolution, 66, (2) 314–329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01447.x. 2012
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Breitburg, Denise L., Tsujimoto, Akira, and Katsuki, Kota. 2012. "Human-induced marine ecological degradation: micropaleontological perspectives." Ecology and Evolution, 2, (12) 3242–3268. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.425. 2012
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Dowsett, Harry J., Robinson, Marci M., and Stoll, Danielle K. 2012. "Latitudinal species diversity gradient of marine zooplankton for the last three million years." Ecology Letters, 15, (10) 1174–1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01828.x. 2012
- Hunt, Gene. 2012. "Measuring rates of phenotypic evolution and the inseparability of tempo and mode." Paleobiology, 38, (3) 351–373. https://doi.org/10.1666/11047.1. 2012
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, van Dijken, Gert, Arrigo, Kevin R., Cronin, Thomas M., and Wollenburg, Jutta E. 2012. "Patterns and controlling factors of species diversity in the Arctic Ocean." Journal of Biogeography, 39, (11) 2081–2088. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02758.x. 2012
- Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L., and DiMichele, William A. 2011. "Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction." Paleobiology, 37, (1) 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1666/09078.1. 2011
- Kolbe, Sarah E., Lockwood, Rowan, and Hunt, Gene. 2011. "Does morphological variation buffer against extinction? A test using veneroid bivalves from the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida." Paleobiology, 37, (3) 355–368. https://doi.org/10.1666/09073.1. 2011
- Liow, Lee Hsiang, Simpson, Carl, Bouchard, Frédéric, Damuth, John, Hallgrimsson, Benedikt, Hunt, Gene, McShea, Dan,W., Powell, Jeffrey,R., Stenseth, Nils,C., Stoller, Melissa,K., and Wagner, Gunter. 2011. "Pioneering paradigms and magnificent manifestos—Leigh Van Valen's priceless contributions to evolutionary biology." Evolution, 65, (4) 917–922. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01242.x. 2011
- Hunt, Gene and Yasuhara, Moriaki. 2010. "A fossil record of developmental events: variation and evolution in epidermal cell divisions in ostracodes." Evolution & Development, 12, (6) 635–646. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00448.x. 2010
- Hunt, Gene, Wicaksono, Satrio A., Brown, Julia E., and MacLeod, Kenneth G. 2010. "Climate-driven body-size trends in the ostracod fauna of the deep Indian Ocean." Palaeontology, 53, (6) 1255–1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01007.x. 2010
- Hunt, Gene. 2010. "Evolution in Fossil Lineages: Paleontology and The Origin of Species." American Naturalist, 176, (Suppl 1) S61–S76. https://doi.org/10.1086/657057. 2010
- Geary, Dana H., Hunt, Gene, Magyar, Imre, and Schreiber, Holly. 2010. "The paradox of gradualism: phyletic evolution in two lineages of lymnocardiid bivalves (Lake Pannon, central Europe)." Paleobiology, 36, (4) 592–614. https://doi.org/10.1666/08065.1. 2010
- Roy, Kaustuv, Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Krug, Andrew Z., and Valentine, James W. 2009. "A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, (1661) 1485–1493. 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
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Hunt, Gene, and Hodell, David A. 2009. "Deep-Sea Ostracods from the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean during the Last 370,000 Years." Journal of Paleontology, 83, (6) 914–930. https://doi.org/10.1666/08-149.1. 2009
- Roy, Kaustuv, Hunt, Gene, and Jablonski, David. 2009. "Phylogenetic Conservatism of Extinctions in Marine Bivalves." Science, 325, (5941) 733–737. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173073. 2009
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, Thomas M., and Okahashi, H. 2009. "Temporal latitudinal-gradient dynamics and tropical instability of deep-sea species diversity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (51) 21717–21720. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910935106. 2009
- Rivadeneira, Marcelo M., Hunt, Gene, and Roy, K. 2009. "The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: an evaluation of different methods." Ecology, 90, (5) 1291–1300. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0316.1. 2009
- Hunt, Gene, Bell, M. A., and Travis, M. P. 2008. "Evolution toward a new adaptive optimum: Phenotypic evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage." Evolution, 62, (3) 700–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00310.x. 2008
- Hunt, Gene. 2008. "Gradual or pulsed evolution: when should punctuational explanations be preferred?" Paleobiology, 34, (3) 360–377. https://doi.org/10.1666/07073.1. 2008
- Hunt, Gene, Park, L. E., and Labarbera, M. 2007. "A Novel Crustacean Swimming Stroke: Coordinated Four-Paddled Locomotion in the Cypridoidean Ostracode Cypridopsis vidua (Muller)." Biological Bulletin, 212 67–73. 2007
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Evolutionary divergence in directions of high phenotypic variance in the ostracode genus Poseidonamicus." Evolution, 61 1560–1576. 2007
- Frame, Kristin, Hunt, Gene, and Roy, Kaustuv. 2007. "Intertidal meiofaunal biodiversity with respect to different algal habitats: a test using phytal ostracodes from Southern California." Hydrobiologia, 586 331–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0707-5. 2007
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Morphology, ontogeny, and phylogenetics of the genus Poseidonamicus (Ostracoda: Thaerocytherinae)." Journal of Paleontology, 81 607–631. 2007
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Perspective: Variation and Early Evolution." Science, 317 459–460. 2007
- Hunt, Gene. 2007. "The relative importance of directional change, random walks, and stasis in the evolution of fossil lineages." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, (47) 18404–18408. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704088104. 2007
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Book
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandao, Simone N. 2015. Taxonomy of Deep-sea Trachyleberidid, Thaerocytherid, and Hemicytherid Genera (Ostracoda). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 96. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.96. 2015
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Chapter
- Hunt, Gene. 2014. "Macroevolutionary trends." In The Princeton Guide to Evolution. Losos, Jonathan, editor. 573–578. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2014
- Hunt, Gene and Carrano, Matthew T. 2010. "Models and methods for analyzing phenotypic evolution in lineages and clades." In Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology. Alroy, John and Hunt, Gene, editors. 245–269. New Haven, CT: The Paleontological Society. 2010
- Hunt, Gene. 2008. "Evolutionary patterns within fossil lineages: model-based assessment of modes, rates, punctuations and process." In From Evolution to Geobiology: Research Questions Driving Paleontology at the Start of a New Century. Bambach, Richard K. and Kelley, P. H., editors. 117–131. The Paleontological Society. 2008
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Dataset
- Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandão, Simone N. 2015. [Dataset] Data from: Taxonomy of deep-sea trachyleberidid, thaerocytherid, and hemicytherid genera (Ostracoda) Action Action. [tif] Distributed by Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rd234. 2015
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
- Fossil Ostracoda
Affiliation
Member Of
Has Collaborator
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Fellowship Advisor
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
Mailing Address
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National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution [NHB, MRC 121]
P.O. Box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012
