Jacob Gardner
Degree Held:
B.Sc. Earth Sciences: Paleontology Option, Montana State University
Degree Sought:
Ph.D. Earth Sciences
Advisors:
Drs. Chris Organ and David Varricchio
Research Project:
How sexual selection shapes human evolution
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Publications:
6. Zhang, Ming*, Yichen Liu*, Zhipeng Li*, Peng Lu*, Jacob D. Gardner*, … [18 authors] …, E. Andrew Bennett, Songmei Hu, and Qiaomei Fu. 2021. Ancient DNA reveals the maternal genetic history of East Asian domestic pigs. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.11.014
5. Wang, Wenjun*, Manyu Ding*, Jacob D. Gardner*, Yongqiang Wang*, … [25 authors] …, Vikas Kumar, and Qiaomei Fu. 2021. Ancient Xinjiang Mitogenomes Reveal Intense Admixture with High Genetic Diversity. Science Advances.
4. Gardner, Jacob D., and Chris L. Organ. 2021. Evolutionary Sample Size and Consilience in Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis. Systematic Biology.
3. Gardner, Jacob D., Michel Laurin, and Chris L. Organ. 2020. The Relationship Between Metabolic Rate and Genome Size in Extant Vertebrates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1793): 20190146.
2. Gardner, Jacob D.*, Kevin Surya*, and Chris L. Organ. 2019. Early Tetrapodomorph Biogeography: Controlling for Fossil Record Bias in Macroevolutionary Analyses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 18(7): 609-709.
1. Wilson, John P., D. Cary Woodruff, Jacob D. Gardner, Holley M. Flora, John R. Horner, Chris L. Organ. 2016. Vertebral Adaptations to Large Body Size in Theropod Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE, 11(7): e0158962.
* Authors contributed equally
Selected Awards, Grants, and Honors:
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Scholarship for International Students (2019)
- Dinosaur Research Institute, Student Project Grant (2017)
- National Science Foundation, East Asia & Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship (2017)
- MSU Earth Sciences, Donald L. Smith Memorial Graduate Scholarship (2016)
- Paleontological Society, Student Ambassador (2015)
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Research Internship (2014)
Digging up dinosaurs in the Hell Creek Formation, eastern Montana
Searching for insect fossils in the Kishenehn Formation, northwestern Montana
Measuring dinosaur fossils at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China