Jacob Gardner

About

Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist working in the Reading Evolution Group (https://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/), researching the fossil record, macroevolution, paleobiology, paleobiogeography, and phylogenetics.

Work

University of Reading

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University of Reading

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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University of Reading

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Research Assistant

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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University of Reading

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Postgraduate Studentship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Montana State University

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Graduate Teaching Assistant: Human Anatomy & Physiology I

US

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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

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Research Assistant

China

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Cactus Communications Inc

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Freelance Editor

US

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Montana State University

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Graduate Teaching Assistant: Earth System Science

US

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Museum of the Rockies

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Lab Technician

US

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Montana State University

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Lab Technician

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Education

University of Reading

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Ph.D.

Montana State University

United States of America
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Ph.D.

Montana State University

United States of America
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B.Sc.

Publications

Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data

Nature Communications

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Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous

Science

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Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous

Science

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Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous

Science

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Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous

Science

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Troodontid specimens from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (USA) and the validity of Troodon formosus

Journal of Paleontology

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The evolution and ecology of gigantism in terror birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Global latitudinal gradients and the evolution of body size in dinosaurs and mammals

Nature Communications

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The coevolution of rostral keratin and tooth distribution in dinosaurs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the mid-Cretaceous neornithischian dinosaur Oryctodromeus cubicularis Varricchio, 2007

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

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Detecting punctuated evolution in SARS-CoV-2 over the first year of the pandemic

Frontiers in Virology

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Ancient DNA reveals the maternal genetic history of East Asian domestic pigs

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

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Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Origins and Genetic Structure of the Neolithic Shimao Population in Northern China

Frontiers in Genetics

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The most complete amiid fish from the Coal Creek Member of the Eocene Kishenehn Formation in northwestern Montana

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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Ancient Xinjiang mitogenomes reveal intense admixture with high genetic diversity

Science Advances

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Evolutionary Sample Size and Consilience in Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis.

Systematic biology

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The relationship between genome size and metabolic rate in extant vertebrates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Early tetrapodomorph biogeography: Controlling for fossil record bias in macroevolutionary analyses

Comptes Rendus Palevol

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Vertebral Adaptations to Large Body Size in Theropod Dinosaurs

PLOS ONE

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