Christopher Gilbert

I'm Chris, an #Actuallivingscientist studying Primate Evolution by looking for fossils and comparing their anatomy to living animals.

Thanks to all of my coauthors...truly a team effort led by Leakey and Nat Geo Baldwin Fellow Deepak!! @birenapatel @cj_campisano @danpeppe @TheLeakeyFndtn @NatGeo journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

The punchline: the earliest primate bearing deposits, including the great ape Sivapithecus, can likely be constrained to ~12.9-13.0 Ma, up to 200 thousand years older than previously known, thereby establishing a new FAD for this iconic taxon.

For over 100 years, vertebrate fossils have been collected on and off at Ramnagar, J&K, India. In all that time, the stratigraphy and geochronology of the area have never been satisfactorily documented beyond a generaly correlation to the Chinji Fm. of the Potwar Plateau...

Just received this in the mail...the 4th edition of of PA&E is finally out! All chapters have been updated through 2024 as much as possible. Figures and tables are (hopefully) much improved. Order your copy for Fall courses and your bookshelves today!!

In any case, it is a sad end to JHE. Again, as a former AE, frequent author, and even more frequent reviewer, I will miss it dearly. In the meantime, I am proud of the last couple of papers we are publishing there, including this follow-up to our discovery of Kapi. Onward!

If AJBA is owned by our society rather than Wiley, that might still be an option, otherwise maybe Paleoanthropology and other journals will take the place of JHE. Maybe University publishing houses will start journals that take the place of Elsevier et al. (I hope)?

Our latest paper presenting further analyses on Kapi ramnagarensis is now published. With Alejandra Ortiz, @kpewpew @cj_campisano @birenapatel Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, John Fleagle, and Rajeev Patnaik authors.elsevier.com/a/1kOdxAlZXXrzI

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@ZCofran Yes, that's the specimen I was thinking of. As you note, it is of uncertain provenience...almost certainly not from Member 4 or 2. It looks very modern (probably geologically recent). Thanks for confirming.

@ZCofran What's the specimen number and from which Member?

@FossilHistory @cj_campisano @BiologicalAnth I don't remember which year the lawyer stuff was...maybe the next year in Columbus? Also, I looked it up and just to be clear, it was Mark, Andrea, Rachel and Biren with the excellent EvAnthro write-up of Philly (I was editorial assistant, not an author).

@cj_campisano @ccgilbs @BiologicalAnth Lawyer business card?!

If anyone attended this Homo floresiensis heavy session of @BiologicalAnth in Philadelphia in 2007 - and has particularly vivid memories of it - would you be willing to chat and share them with me?

@cj_campisano @FossilHistory @BiologicalAnth Yep, that was the year…. Definitely Philly. We did a write-up in EvAnthro. I think it was “What color is the sky in your world, Bob?” And then some mumbling from Bob about sheep as I recall

@FossilHistory @BiologicalAnth I’m trying to remember what year (name withheld) asked Bob “what color is the sky in the world that you live in?” Anyone?