Elisabeth Vrba

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Elisabeth Vrba
Elisabeth Vrba, 2009
Born	(1942-05-17)May 17, 1942 Hamburg, Germany
Nationality	American
Fields	Paleontology
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	University of Cape Town

Elisabeth S. Vrba is a paleontologist at Yale University. Vrba earned her Ph.D. in Zoology and Palaeontology at the University of Cape Town, in 1974. She is well known for developing the Turnover Pulse Hypothesis, as well as coining the word exaptation with colleague Stephen Jay Gould. She has been a faculty member at the Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, since the early 1980s. She is married and has a daughter^[1]

Bibliography

Gould, S. J. and S. Vrba. (1982). "Exaptation—a missing term in the science of form." Paleobiology 8: 4-15.
Shell, E. R. (1999). "Waves of Creation." Discover 14 (May): 54-61.
Vrba, E. S. and Gould, S. J. (1986). "The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection." Paleobiology. 12 (2): 217-228.
Vrba, E. S. (1993). "The Pulse That Produced Us." Natural History 102 (5) 47-51.

References

↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=428i2UdWRRAC&lpg=PA305&ots=tLPPnlcgo3&dq=students%20of%20elisabeth%20vrba&pg=PA306#v=onepage&q=students%20of%20elisabeth%20vrba&f=false

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Name	Vrba, Elisabeth S.
Alternative names
Short description	American paleontologist
Date of birth	May 17,1942
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Date of death
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