Michel Laurin, Date of Birth
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Canadian paleontologist and phylogenetic taxonomist
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About Michel Laurin
- Michel Laurin is a Canadian-born French a vertebrate paleontologist whose specialities include the emergence of a land-based lifestyle among vertebrates, the evolution of body size and the origin and phylogeny of lissamphibians.
- He has also made important contributions to the literature on phylogenetic nomenclature. As an undergraduate, he worked in the laboratory of Robert L.
- Carroll and earned his Ph.D.
- at the University of Toronto under the direction of Robert R.
- Reisz; his thesis concerned the osteology of seymouriamorphs.
- His 1991 review of diapsid phylogeny provided the broadest review of the subject up to that date.
- In 1995, Laurin and Reisz coauthored a widely cited article providing evidence that the synapsids are the sister group of all other amniotes.
- He later worked on untangling the phylogeny of the Stegocephalia, a group with a notoriously difficult phylogeny.
- He later moved to France; since 1998, he has been a CNRS researcher at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.He is an editor-in-chief of Comptes Rendus Palevol, a journal in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences family, as well as being a reviewing editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
- He has been a key contributor to the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature, where he served as president 2008–2009 and as secretary 2010–2011.
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