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About Lawrence Witmer
- Dr.
- Lawrence M.
- Witmer is an American paleontologist and paleobiologist.
- He is a Professor of Anatomy and a Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio University.
- Witmer is considered to be one of the world's foremost experts on soft-tissue anatomy of the skull in extinct animals such as dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
- One of Witmer's largest contributions to vertebrate paleontology was the creation of the Extant Phylogenetic Bracket approach to ancestral character state reconstruction.
- This methodology incorporates extensive comparative anatomy using physical and digital dissections of extant animals.
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