NAI
Douglas Erwin
Smithsonian Institution
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Early Animals: The Origins of Biological Complexity — 2015 NAI
- Fullerenes and Mass Extinctions? — 2015 NAI
- Early Animals: The Origins of Biological Complexity — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: The Origins of Biological Complexity — 2013 NAI
- Timescales of Events in the Evolution and Maintenance of Complex Life — 2012 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2012 NAI
- Ediacaran-Cambrian Diversification of Animals — 2012 NAI
- Timescales of Events in the Evolution and Maintenance of Complex Life — 2011 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Timscales of Events in the Evolution and Maintenance of Complex Life — 2010 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2010 NAI
- Timscales of Events in the Evolution and Maintenance of Complex Life — 2009 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2009 NAI
- Erwin Project — 2008 NAI
- Erwin Project — 2008 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Subproject: Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and Its Consequences — 2003 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Environmental Change and Evolution — 2003 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and Its Consequences — 2002 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Environmental Change and Evolution — 2002 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Environmental Change and Evolution — 2001 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and Its Consequences — 2001 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Research on Terminal Proterozoic Evolution and the Coevolution of Life and Environments — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Davidson, E. H., & Erwin, D. H. (2009). Evolutionary innovation and stability in animal gene networks. J. Exp. Zool., 9999B, n/a–n/a. doi:10.1002/jez.b.21329
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Erwin, D. (2009). A call to the custodians of deep time. Nature, 462(7271), 282–283. doi:10.1038/462282a
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Erwin, D. H. (2009). Climate as a Driver of Evolutionary Change. Current Biology, 19(14), R575–R583. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.047
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Erwin, D. H. (2009). Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1527), 2253–2261. doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0038
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Erwin, D. H. (2011). Evolutionary uniformitarianism. Developmental Biology, 357(1), 27–34. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.01.020
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Erwin, D. H. (2011). Novelties That Change Carrying Capacity. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.), 318(6), 460–465. doi:10.1002/jez.b.21429
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Erwin, D. H., & Davidson, E. H. (2009). The evolution of hierarchical gene regulatory networks. Nature Reviews Genetics, 10(2), 141–148. doi:10.1038/nrg2499
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Erwin, D. H., & Tweedt, S. (2011). Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa. Evol Ecol, 26(2), 417–433. doi:10.1007/s10682-011-9505-7
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Erwin, D. H., Laflamme, M., Tweedt, S. M., Sperling, E. A., Pisani, D., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals. Science, 334(6059), 1091–1097. doi:10.1126/science.1206375
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Krakauer, D. C., Page, K. M., & Erwin, D. H. (2009). Diversity, Dilemmas, and Monopolies of Niche Construction. The American Naturalist, 173(1), 26–40. doi:10.1086/593707
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Maloof, A. C., Rose, C. V., Beach, R., Samuels, B. M., Calmet, C. C., Erwin, D. H., … Simons, F. J. (2010). Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia. Nature Geosci, 3(9), 653–659. doi:10.1038/ngeo934
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Rubidge, B. S., Erwin, D. H., Ramezani, J., Bowring, S. A., & De Klerk, W. J. (2013). High-precision temporal calibration of Late Permian vertebrate biostratigraphy: U-Pb zircon constraints from the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa. Geology, 41(3), 363–366. doi:10.1130/g33622.1
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Solé, R. V., SaldañA, J., Montoya, J. M., & Erwin, D. H. (2010). Simple model of recovery dynamics after mass extinction. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 267(2), 193–200. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.08.015
See Project - Anbar, A.D., Boyd, E.S., Buick, R., Claire, M., Des Marais, D., Domagal-Goldman, S., Eigenbrode, J., Erwin, D., Freeman, K., Hazen, R., Johnson, C., Lyons, T., Meadows, V., Ohmoto, H., Ono, S., Peters, J.W., Shapiro, B., Summons, R. & Walter, M. (2010). An Archean biosphere initiative [abstract 5593]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Bush, A.M., Bambach, R.K. & Erwin, D.H. (2011). Ecospace utilization during the Ediacaran radiation and the Cambrian Eco-plosion. In: LaFlamme, M., Schiffbauer, J. & Dornbos, S. (Eds.). Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life. Vol. Topics in Geobiology. Springer. See Project
- Davidson, E.H. & Erwin, D.H. (2010). An Integrated View of Precambrian Eumetazoan Evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 79: 65-80. doi:doi:10.1101/sqb.2009.74.042 See Project
- Erwin, D.H. & Tweedt, S. (2012). Ecosystem Engineering and the Ediacaran-Ordovician diversification of Metazoa. Evolutionary Ecology, 26: 417-433. See Project
- Erwin, D.H. & Valentine, J.W. (2011). The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity. Greenwood, CO: Roberts & Co. See Project
- Erwin, D.H. & Valentine, J.W. (In Presss). The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity. Ben Roberts. See Project
- Erwin, D.H. (2010). Microevolution and macroevolution are not governed by the same processes. In: Ayala, F.J. & Arp, R. (Eds.). Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Blackwell. See Project
- Erwin, D.H. (2011). A Paleontologist looks at history. Cliodynamics, 2: 27-39. See Project
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Discipline
Paleobiology, Evolutionary Biology, Geology
