Professor of Integrative Biology Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology; past President, National Center for Science Education
Kevin Padian (born 1951) is an American paleontologist. He is Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology, and was President of the National Center for Science Education from 2007 to 2008.[1] Padian's area of interest is in vertebrate evolution, especially the origins of flight and the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs. He served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, and his testimony was repeatedly cited in the court's decision.[2]
Padian received a bachelor's degree in Natural Science and a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from Colgate University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University, where he focused on the evolution of flight in pterosaurs. He subsequently became interested in paleobiology, especially using paleohistology. He developed this research program in collaboration with Armand de Ricqlès and Jack Horner.[3][4][5][6] In addition to his work at Berkeley, Padian taught science in high school and was principal author of the California Science Framework K–12.[7] In 2003, he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[8]
He has cowritten several papers with John R. Horner and Armand de Ricqlès based on histological analysis of fossil bones from the UCMP as well as the Museum of the Rockies.
Padian has authored over 100 scientific articles.[1]
In 2007, Padian was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]
He supervised several doctoral students who developed distinguished careers of their own, such as Jacques Gauthier, Timothy Rowe, and John Hutchinson.
He was recently exposed as a member of the Bohemian Club at Camp Hideaway since the year 2006.
^ ab"Our Staff". ncseweb.org. National Center for Science Education. Archived from the original on 2007-05-13. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
^Decision, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District et al.
^Horner, John R.; Ricqlès, Armand de; Padian, Kevin (1999). "Variation in dinosaur skeletochronology indicators: implications for age assessment and physiology". Paleobiology. 25 (3): 295–304. Bibcode:1999Pbio...25..295H. doi:10.1017/S0094837300021308. ISSN 0094-8373. S2CID 88428612.
^de RICQLÈS, ARMAND J.; PADIAN, KEVIN; HORNER, JOHN R.; FRANCILLON-VIEILLOT, HÉLÈNE (1 July 2000). "Palaeohistology of the bones of pterosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria): anatomy, ontogeny, and biomechanical implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129 (3): 349–385. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00016.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
^de Ricqlès, Armand; Padian, Kevin; Knoll, Fabien; Horner, John R. (1 April 2008). "On the origin of high growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: Complementary histological studies on Triassic archosauriforms and the problem of a "phylogenetic signal" in bone histology". Annales de Paléontologie. 94 (2): 57–76. Bibcode:2008AnPal..94...57D. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2008.03.002. ISSN 0753-3969.
^Buffrénil, Vivian de; Zylberberg, Louise; Ricqlès, Armand J. de; Padian, Kevin; Laurin, Michel; Quilhac, Alexandra (2021). Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology (1st ed.). Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press. p. xii + 825. doi:10.1201/9781351189590. ISBN 978-1351189576. S2CID 236406115.
^Expert Report from Kevin Padian, Paleontologist Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine ( submitted as part of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District)
^"Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
^AAAS - 2007 Fellows Archived 2008-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
KevinPadian (born 1951) is an American paleontologist. He is Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology...
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Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-62349-082-9. Padian, Kevin (1997). "Saurischia". In KevinPadian; Philip J. Currie (eds.). Encyclopedia of dinosaurs...
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considered by scientists to be the central unifying paradigm of biology. KevinPadian and Alan D. Gishlick wrote a review in Quarterly Review of Biology which...
clade as "All neotetanurans closer to Allosaurus than to Neornithes." KevinPadian (2007) used a node-based definition, defined the Allosauroidea as Allosaurus...
National Center for Science Education published three reviews of the book: KevinPadian, a biologist at University of California, Berkeley, called it "a wholesale...
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been enhanced by colors for use in display. In 2011 the paleontologists KevinPadian and John R. Horner proposed that "bizarre structures" in dinosaurs in...
subclass distinct from Archosauria which includes pterosaurs. In 1997, KevinPadian classified Pterosauromorpha as a clade of archosaurs and proposed phylogenetic...
Discourse, with a preface by Brian Hall, and essays by Ron Amundson, KevinPadian, Mary Winsor, and Jennifer Coggon. Huxley, Thomas H. (1861). "On the...
establishing risk factors which can be avoided to minimize harm. Padian is married to KevinPadian, Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California...
short wrist bones of basal pterosaurs ("rhamphorhynchoids"). In 2004, KevinPadian formally defined Pterodactyloidea as an apomorphy-based clade containing...
hindlimbs and characteristics of its pelvis. This hypothesis was revived by KevinPadian in 1983. However, fossilised track remains of other pterosaurs (ichnites)...
plates. The findings of the study were questioned by palaeontologists KevinPadian and Kenneth Carpenter although no formal scientific studies were published...
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a fragment of jaw, ISI R. 48, recovered from Chanda district, India. KevinPadian considers this a nomen dubium, possibly based on a fish fossil. That...
the Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group) of northern Arizona, were by KevinPadian referred to a Scelidosaurus sp., and used to determine that the age of...
of the authors of the science framework used by California schools, KevinPadian, condemned it for its "sub-text", "intolerance for honest science" and...
species by Felix Plieninger, Gustav von Arthaber, and more recently KevinPadian. In 1971 Rupert Wild described and named a second species: Dorygnathus...
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Cornell Lectures. Lectures on the Scientific Method by Nick Josh Karean, KevinPadian, Michael Shermer and Richard Dawkins (archived 21 January 2013). "How...
Paul Barrett, with illustrations by Raúl Martín, and an introduction by KevinPadian. It was published in 2001 by National Geographic. Achelousaurus Albertosaurus...
in sauropod egg shells. With respect to the significance of her work, KevinPadian, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology...
development of the kind supposed by evolutionists." Biology professor KevinPadian at the University of California, Berkeley has criticized the notion that...
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