Michel Laurin is a Canadian-born French vertebrate paleontologist whose specialities include the emergence of a land-based lifestyle among vertebrates, the evolution of body size and the origin and phylogeny of lissamphibians. He has also made important contributions to the literature on phylogenetic nomenclature.
Michel Laurin | |
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| Born | Michel Laurin |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
As an undergraduate, he worked in the laboratory of Robert L. Carroll and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the direction of Robert R. Reisz; his thesis concerned the osteology of seymouriamorphs.[1] His 1991 review of diapsid phylogeny[2] provided the broadest review of the subject up to that date.[3] In 1995, Laurin and Reisz coauthored a widely cited article providing evidence that the synapsids are the sister group of all other amniotes.[4] He later worked on untangling the phylogeny of the Stegocephalia, a group with a notoriously difficult phylogeny.[5] He later moved to France; since 1998, he has been a CNRS researcher at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.[1]
He is an editor-in-chief of Comptes Rendus Palevol,[6] a journal in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences family, as well as being a reviewing editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.[7] He has been a key contributor to the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature, where he served as president 2008–2009 and as secretary 2010–2011.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Michel Laurin". on the website of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ Laurin, Michel (1991). "The osteology of a Lower Permian eosuchian from Texas and a review of diapsid phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 101: 59–95. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1991.tb00886.x.
- ^ Modesto, Sean P.; Reisz, Robert R. (2003). "An enigmatic new diapsid reptile from the Upper Permian of eastern Europe". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 (4): 851–855. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0851:AENDRF]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 131566543.
- ^ Laurin, Michel; Reisz, Robert R. (1995). "A reevaluation of early amniote phylogeny" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113 (2): 165–223. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00932.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
- ^ Laurin, M. (1996) Phylogeny of Stegocephalians, from the Tree of Life Web Project
- ^ "Comptes Rendus Palevol". Elsevier. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ "Journal of Evolutionary Biology". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.523.9731. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1420-9101. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ ISPN council, official list from International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature