P. David Polly

P. David Polly, Ph.D.

  • Positions:
    Associate Professor

    Geological Sciences

    Biology, Anthropology

    Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)

    Research Associate

    Zoology

    The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Paleontology / Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
     
    B.A., Plan II, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Phillip D. Gingerich (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    William A. Clemens (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    James L. Patton (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    F. Clark Howell (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Kevin Padian (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Timothy B. Rowe (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Vertebrate paleontology, evolution, functional morphology, ecological morphology, morphometrics
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  • Other Experience:

    2001-2006 Lecturer (Asst. Prof.), School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London

    1997-2000 Lecturer (Asst. Prof.), St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry

    1994-1996 Fellow, The Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

    1991 Visiting Scholar, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart

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  • Honors:

    2009-2010 Screwball Award

    2004 Drapers’ Prize for Excellence in Teaching

    2001 Joseph T. Gregory Award

    2001 Best Teacher of Biomedical Science (Dentistry)

    1992 Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Excellence Award

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P. David Polly's Publications (14)



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Average digitigrady in mammalian carnivore communities, measured using proportions of the calcaneum bone in the ankle. The geographic distribution of this trait correlated with macrovegetation and ecological region.


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