David Jablonski

David Jablonski ( born June 23, 1953 in New York City ) is an American paleontologist.

Jablonski studied at Columbia University (Bachelor 1974) and Yale University, where in 1976 he took his master's degree and received his doctorate in 1979. Then he was at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Berkeley (1980-1982 as Miller Research Fellow ). From 1982 he was assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. From 1985 he was an associate professor and in 1989 professor of paleobiology at the University of Chicago. In 1993 he was Honorary Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.

Jablonski research on macro-evolution, that is, patterns in the evolution of fossils, evolutionary breakthroughs and their causes and mass extinctions (especially Cretaceous-Tertiary ).

1983 to 1985 and 1986 to 1988 he was co-editor of Paleobiology and 1984-1986 of evolution. In 1988 he received the Charles Schuchert Award. In 2010 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Paleontological Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Guggenheim Fellow.

Writings

• Publisher with Rhodes W. Fairbridge: The Encyclopedia of Paleontology ( = Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series Vol 7. ). Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, PA 1979, ISBN 0-87933-185-2.
• Editor with David M. Raup: Patterns and Processes in the History of Life ( = Life Sciences Research Report Vol 36. ). Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Patterns and Processes in the History of Life, Berlin, 1985, June 16 - 21, Springer, Berlin and others, 1986, ISBN 3-540-15965-7.
• Publisher with others: Evolutionary Paleobiology. In Honor of James W. Valentine. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, inter alia, 1996, ISBN 0-226-38911-1.