Jacques Gauthier
Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948, in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.
Life and career
Gauthier is the son of Edward Paul Gauthier and Patricia Marie Grogan.[classification and phylogenetic understanding of the dinosaurs.
Gauthier's corpus contributed the foundational phylogenetic studies of
squamate
papers still form the core of essentially all gross-anatomy-based phylogenetic analyses of these groups, and as such are among the most highly cited papers in amniote morphology and paleobiology. The 1988 amniote paper is also frequently cited to demonstrate the importance of taxon sampling in phylogenetic analysis, in particular the importance of sampling rare or fossil taxa that can break 'long branches' along which convergence can occur.
Gauthier has argued together with
Xantusiidae. He is a principal investigator on the National Science Foundation-funded effort to reconstruct the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) using gross anatomy and molecular structure, building on his earlier work in collaboration with Richard Estes and Kevin de Queiroz, which established the most widely accepted phylogeny of the group.[citation needed
]
Footnotes
- ^ Gauthier (1984)
- ^ Gauthier (1986)
- ^ Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe (1988); Gauthier (1994)
- ^ Foer, Joshua. "Pushing Phylocode." Discover 26.4 (2005): 46-51. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.
- ^ Donoghue, Michael J., and Jacques A. Gauthier. "Implementing The Phylocode." Trends In Ecology & Evolution 19.6 (2004): 281-282. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.
References
- Estes, R.; de Queiroz, K. & Gauthier, Jacques (1988): Phylogenetic relationships within Squamata. In: Estes, R. & Pregill, G. (eds.): The Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families: 15–98. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto.
- Gauthier, Jacques A. (1982): Fossil xenosaurid and anguid lizards from the early Eocene of Wyoming, and a revision of the Anguioidea. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 21: 7-54.
- Gauthier, Jacques A. (1984): A cladistic analysis of the higher systematic categories of the Diapsida. [PhD dissertation]. Available from University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, #85-12825, vii + 564 pp.
- Gauthier, J. A. (1986), "Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds", in Padian, K. (ed.), The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight, Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 8, Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, pp. 1–55, ISBN 0-940228-14-9
- Gauthier, Jacques A.; Estes, R. & de Queiroz, Kevin (1988): A phylogenetic analysis of Lepidosauromorpha. In: Estes, R. & Pregill, G. (eds.): The Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families: 15–98. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto.
- Gauthier, J. A.; Kluge, A. G.; Rowe, T. (June 1988). "Amniote phylogeny and the importance of fossils" (PDF). S2CID 83502693.
- Rowe, T. & Gauthier, Jacques (1990): Ceratosauria. In: Weishample, D.; Dodson, P. & Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria: 151–168. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.23: 449–480.
- Gauthier, Jacques A. (1994): The diversification of the amniotes. In: Prothero, D. (ed.): Major Features of Vertebrate Evolution: Short Courses in Paleontology: 129–159. Paleontological Society.
- Donoghue, M. J.; Gauthier, Jacques A. (June 2004). "Implementing the PhyloCode" (PDF). PMID 16701272. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-04-01. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
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