K. Christopher Beard

K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,^[1] and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh.^[2] He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China.^[3] He worked with NASA to scan a T-Rex skull.^[4]

Awards

• 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• The hunt for the dawn monkey: unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans, University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 9780520233690
• "Mammalian Biogeography and Anthrooid Origins", Primate biogeography: progress and prospects, Editors Shawn M. Lehman, John G. Fleagle, Springer, 2006, ISBN 9780387298719
• "Basal Anthropoids", The primate fossil record, Editor Walter Carl Hartwig, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780521663151
• "Early Wasatchian Mammals From the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi", Eocene biodiversity: unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats, Editor Gregg F. Gunnell, Springer, 2001, ISBN 9780306465284

References

External links

• "K. Christopher Beard", Scientific Commons
• Christopher Beard" Christopher Beard's Blog
• "Fossil May Represent New Branch of Primates' Family Tree", The Washington Post, Apr 5, 1996