Elisabeth Vrba Professor Director of Graduate Studies Email Me Office: 262 ESC Phone: (203) 432-5008 Fax: (203) 432-3134 http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~vrba Research Interests: Mammalian paleontology, evolutionay theory. Subjects include morphology, allometry, ontogeny, systematics, biogeography, paleoecology, paleoclimate, and their use to understand macroevolutionary processes Current Courses: G&G250a/550a Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory%09 G&G 610b Advanced Topics in Macroevolution G&G707b Advanced Seminar in Evolutionary Paleontology Selected Publication(s): Vrba, E. S., 1995. On the connections between paleoclimate and evolution. Pp. 24-45. In E. S. Vrba, G. H. Denton, T. C. Partridge and L. H. Burckle (eds.), Paleoclimate and Evolution with emphasis on Human Origins, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut. 556 pp. Vrba, E.S. 2004. Ecology, evolution, and development : Perspectives from the fossil record. In Hall, B.K., Pearson, R.D., and Muller, G.B. (Eds.) Environment, Development, and Evolution, pp. 85-105. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vrba, E. S. & DeGusta, D. 2004 Do species populations really start small? New perspectives from the Late Neogene fossil record of African mammals. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 359, 285-293. Vrba, E.S. 2005. Mass turnover and heterochrony events in response to physical change Paleobiology 31 (2): 157-174. In Vrba, E.S. and Eldredge, N. (Eds) Macroevolution: Diversity and Disparity. Dedicated issue of Paleobiology in honor of Stephen Jay Gould, Paleobiology Volume 31(2). Vrba, E.S. 2006. Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins. In Henke,W., Rothe, H., and Tattersall, I. (Eds.) Handbook of Palaeoanthropology, Vol. 3: Phylogeny of Hominines, pp. 1-41. Springer-Verlag: New York.