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P. David Polly
Summary
P. David Polly is an Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University (2018-19) and the Robert R. Shrock Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University (IU). A vertebrate paleontologist, he studies the evolution of mammals and other vertebrates in the fossil record, including trait-based studies of community response to environmental change, geometric morphometric analysis of evolution and morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, and speciation on regional and continental geographic scales. He recently served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2016-18), Director of the IU Center for Biological Research Collections (2013-2018), and Associate Director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at IU (2017-2018).