P. David Polly, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
1997-2001 Anatomy / Molecular and Cellular Biology Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry 
 2001-2006 School of Biological Sciences Queen Mary University of London, London, England, United Kingdom 
 2006- Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States 
Area:
Vertebrate paleontology, mammal evolution, phenotypic evolution, climate change biology, ecometrics
Website:
https://pollylab.org/
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Bio:

BA 1987 University of Texas at Austin, PhD 1993 University of California Berkeley, postdoctoral fellow 1994-1996 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, lecturer (=assistant professor) 1997-2006 University of London, associate/professor 2006 to present, Indiana University Bloomington. President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2016-2018), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2021).

Parents

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Timothy B. Rowe research assistant 1986-1987 UT Austin
Arnold Girard Kluge research assistant 1988-1988 University of Michigan
William A. Clemens grad student 1988-1993 UC Berkeley
 (Ph.D. Supervisor)
Francis Clark Howell grad student 1988-1993 UC Berkeley (Anthropology Tree)
 (Ph.D. Committee)
Kevin Padian grad student 1988-1993 UC Berkeley
 (Ph.D. Committee)
James Patton grad student 1988-1993 UC Berkeley
 (Ph.D. Committee)
Philip D. Gingerich post-doc 1994-1996 University of Michigan

Children

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Beth A. Reinke research assistant 2008-2012 Indiana University Bloomington
Daniel Rhoda research assistant 2016-2020 Indiana University Bloomington
Allison K. Bormet grad student 2010- Indiana University Bloomington
Sierra Lopezalles grad student 2020- Indiana University Bloomington
Kat Sestrick grad student 2023- Indiana University Bloomington
Quentin A. Smith grad student 2024- Indiana University Bloomington
Stefan N. Gabriel grad student 2003-2007 Queen Mary, University of London
Rituparna Bose grad student 2005-2011 Indiana University Bloomington
Anna Michelle Lawing grad student 2007-2012 Indiana University Bloomington
Richard J. D. Bykowski grad student 2009-2014 Indiana University Bloomington
Wesley Vermillion grad student 2011-2016 Indiana University Bloomington
Michael R. Smith grad student 2007-2017 Indiana University Bloomington
Blaire Hensley-Marschand grad student 2010-2017 Indiana University Bloomington
Spencer M. Hellert grad student 2014-2019 Indiana University Bloomington
Silvia Ascari grad student 2015-2021 Indiana University Bloomington
Anne E. Kort grad student 2017-2023 Indiana University Bloomington
Henry Fulghum grad student 2021-2023 Indiana University Bloomington
Allison Nelson grad student 2021-2023 Indiana University Bloomington
Ricardo Ely grad student 2017-2024 Indiana University Bloomington
Charles Salcido grad student 2019-2024 Indiana University Bloomington
Jason J. Head post-doc 2002-2005 Queen Mary, University of London
Steven C. Le Comber post-doc 2003-2006 Queen Mary, University of London
Anjali Goswami post-doc 2005-2007 Queen Mary, University of London
Silvia Pineda-Munoz post-doc 2020-2024 Indiana University Bloomington
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Pearson A, Bruner E, Polly PD. (2023) Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans. American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Short RA, McGuire JL, Polly PD, et al. (2023) Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2201947120
Hebdon N, Polly PD, Peterman DJ, et al. (2022) Detecting Mismatch in Functional Narratives of Animal Morphology: a Test Case With Fossils. Integrative and Comparative Biology
O'Keefe FR, Meachen JA, Polly PD. (2021) On Information Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices. Systematic Biology
Rhoda D, Polly PD, Raxworthy C, et al. (2021) Morphological integration and modularity in the hyperkinetic feeding system of aquatic-foraging snakes. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 75: 56-72
Singh D, Reed SM, Kimmitt AA, et al. (2020) Breeding at higher latitude is associated with higher photoperiodic threshold and delayed reproductive development in a songbird. Hormones and Behavior. 104907
Polly PD. (2020) Functional Tradeoffs Carry Phenotypes Across the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Integrative and Comparative Biology
Pearson A, Polly PD, Bruner E. (2020) Is the middle cranial fossa a reliable predictor of temporal lobe volume in extant and fossil anthropoids? American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Polly PD. (2020) Ecometrics and Neogene faunal turnover: the roles of cats and hindlimb morphology in the assembly of carnivoran communities in the New World Geodiversitas. 42: 257
Pearson A, Polly PD, Bruner E. (2020) Temporal lobe evolution in Javanese Homo erectus and African Homo ergaster: Inferences from the cranial base Quaternary International
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