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Thematic Session
evolution

Keynote speaker

Christine Janis

Christine Marie Janis is a vertebrate paleontologist with primary training in anatomy: she is currently an Honorary Professor in Earth Sciences/Palaeobiology at Bristol University (UK) but retains her former connection with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University (USA) as Professor Emerita. Her main research interests are in large Cenozoic mammals (although she has also published papers relating to dinosaurs and early tetrapods), in functional anatomy, and evolutionary patterns.

She started her career being interested in skulls, teeth and diets (she established the first standardized listing of ungulate hypsodonty indices), but these days she is more interested in limbs and locomotion. Her current research projects involve the evolution of locomotion in horses and kangaroos.

She has been awarded as a paleontologist and teacher. Janis is well known for her seminal contributions to mammalian paleobiology examining both change in anatomy through time, indicative of past behavior, and changes in fossil community structure, indicative of past environments.

She has generated a large scientific publication list (more than 100) including articles, book chapters, edited books (two volumes of “The Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America”), and teaching textbooks (e.g., Vertebrate Life).

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