David Jablonski

David Jablonski is an American professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses upon the ecology and biogeography of the origin of major novelties, the evolutionary role of mass extinctions—in particular the K-T extinction—and other large-scale processes in the history of life. As a lecturer, he is known for his extreme enthusiasm.

Jablonski was educated at Columbia University (earning his B.A. in 1974) and completed his graduate work at Yale (with his M.S. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979). As an undergraduate he worked at The American Museum of Natural History in the City of New York, NY. Then continued his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1985 he was hired by the University of Chicago.

In 1988 the Paleontological Society awarded Jablonski with the Charles Schuchert Award, which is given to persons under 40 "whose work reflects excellence and promise in paleontology".^[1] In 2010 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.^[2]

Selected publications

• Jablonski, D. ed. et al. (1996) Evolutionary Paleobiology Univ. of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-38913-8
• Jablonski, D. et al. (1997) Macroevolution in the 21st Century. International Senckenberg Conference and Workshop.
• Jablonski, D. (1999) The future of the fossil record. Science 284: 2114-2116.
• Jablonski, D. (2000) Micro- and macroevolution: scale and hierarchy in evolutionary biology and paleobiology. Paleobiology 26(4): 15-52.
• Jablonski, D. (2001) Lessons from the past: evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 5393-98.
• Jablonski, D. (2002) Survival without recovery after mass extinctions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 8139-8144.
• Jablonski, D. (2002) A more modern synthesis American Scientist 90 (July–August): 368-371.
• Jablonski, D. (2004) Extinction: Past and present. Nature 427: 589
• Jablonski, D. (2005) Mass extinctions and macroevolution Paleobiology 31(2): 192-210.
• Jablonski, D. (2007) Scale and hierarchy in macroevolution. Palaeontology 50: 87-109.

References

External links

• Profile at the University of Chicago
• Talk of the Nation: "The Origin of Animal Body Plans" (March 7, 1997)
• David Jablonski, the William Kenan Jr. Professor in Geophysical Sciences by Steve Koppes