Padian, Kevin
2018
- Manafzadeh, A.R. and K. Padian. 2018. ROM mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans. Proc. R. Soc. B 285: 20180727.
- Padian, K. 2018. Narrative and “anti-narrative” in science: How scientists tell stories, and don’t. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
- Padian, K. 2018. Measuring and comparing extinction events: Reconsidering diversity crises and concepts. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
- Padian, K. 2018. Evolutionary insights from an ancient bird. Nature 557:36-37.
- Padian, K. 2018. Review of Origins of Darwin’s Evolution, by J. David Archibald. Syst. Biol. 67(4):741–742.
- Padian, K. 2018. Review of Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, ambition, and the sin of speculation, by Alistair Sponsel. BioScience.
- Sigwart, J.D., Bennett, K.D., Edie, S.M., Mander, L., Okamura, B., Padian, K., Wheeler, Q., Winston, J., & Yeung, N. 2018. Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction – Present and Past. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
2017
- Andres, B., Padian, K., Rowe, T.B., Bell, C.J., Brown, M.A., Sagebiel, J.C., Lehman, T.M., Cunningham, J.R. 2017. Case 3728 – Quetzalcoatlus northropi (Reptilia, Pterosauria): Proposed availability and attribution of authorship to Lawson, 1975. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 74 (15 May 2017) ISSN 2057-0570 (online).
- Padian, K. 2017. Structure and evolution of the ankle bones in pterosaurs and other ornithodirans. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1364651 (14 pp).
- Padian, K. 2017. Review of The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, Developmental, and Ecological Perspectives, by T.S. Kemp. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 37 (1): 14.
- Padian, K. 2017. Review of Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance, by Jacqueline Dillion. The Thomas Hardy Review 19 (1): 85-87.
- Padian, K. 2017. Parallel lives: Review of Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution, by Jonathan B. Losos. Nature 548: 156-157.
- Padian, K. 2017. Dividing the dinosaurs. [News and Views.] Nature 543: 494-495.
2016
- Padian, K., Werning, S., & Horner, J.R. 2016. A hypothesis of differential secondary bone formation in dinosaurs. Comptes Rendus Palevol 15: 41-49.
2014
- Padian, K. 2014. Branching trees. [Book review.] Nature. 511: 408-409.
- Padian, K. 2014. Review of Enquete sur les Creationnismes: Reseaux, strategies et objectifs politiques, by Cyrille Baudouin and Olivier Brosseau. Reports of the National Center for Science Education.
- Padian, K. and J.R. Horner. 2014. The species recognition hypothesis explains exaggerated structures in non-avialan dinosaurs better than sexual selection does. C. R. Palevol 13: 97-107.
2013
- Lee, A.H., A.K. Huttenlocker, K. Padian, and H.N. Woodward. 2013. Analysis of growth rates. Chapter 8 (pp. 217-251) In Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Padian, K. 2013. Correcting some common misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media. Evolution Education and Outreach, 6: 1-13.
- Padian, K. 2013. Creator or creationist? Review of Christoph Imscher, Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science. Nature, 493: 607.
- Padian, K. 2013. Review of Forerunners of Mammals, edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(5):1250-1251.
- Padian, K. 2013. Review of Martin J.P. Davies, A Distant Prospect of Wessex: Archaeology and the past in the life and works of Thomas Hardy. The Hardy Review, 15 (1): 97-99. Read it
- Padian, K. 2013. Review of Rereading the Fossil Record, by David Sepkoski. Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 33 (3). Online at www.reports.ncse.com.
- Padian, K. 2013. The problem of dinosaur origins: integrating three approaches to the rise of Dinosauria. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 103: 423-442 (for 2012).
- Padian, K. 2013. Why Study the Bone Microstructure of Fossil Tetrapods? Chapter 1 (pp. 1-11) In Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.). 2013. Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Issues, methods, and databases. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Padian, K. and J.R. Horner. 2013. Misconceptions of sexual selection and species recognition: a response to Knell et al. and to Mendelson and Shaw. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28:249-250.
- Padian, K. and K. Stein. 2013. Evolution of growth rates and their implications. Chapter 9 (pp. 253-264) In Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Padian, K., E.-T. Lamm, and S. Werning. 2013. Selection of Specimens. Chapter 3 (pp. 35-54) In Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Padian, K., M. de Boef Miara, H.C.E. Larsson, L. Wilson, and T. Bromage. 2013. Research applications and integration. Chapter 10 (pp. 265-285) In Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Woodward, H.N., K. Padian, and A.H. Lee. 2013. Skeletochronology. Chapter 7 (pp. 195-215) In Padian, K. and E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley.
2012
- Padian, K. 2012. A bone for all seasons. Nature, 487: 310-311.
- Padian, K. 2012. Review of Am I a Monkey? by Francisco Ayala. Priscum (Newsletter of the Paleontological Society), 19 (2): 17-18.
- Padian, K. 2012. Review of Convergent Evolution, by George McGhee. Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 32 (3): 10.1-4.
- Padian, K., and B. Fallon. 2012. Meta-analysis of reported pterosaur trackways: testing the correspondence between skeletal and footprint records. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 72nd annual meeting, Program and Abstracts: 153A.
- Padian, K., and E.K. Burton. 2012. Dinosaurs and evolutionary theory. In J.O. Farlow and M.K. Brett-Surman (eds.), The Complete Dinosaur (2nd ed.). University of Indiana Press, Bloomington.
2011
- Padian, K. 2011. Phylogenetic distribution of ecological traits in the origin of bats. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3, suppl.):170A. Read it
- Padian, K. and J.R. Horner. 2011. The evolution of "bizarre structures" in dinosaurs: function, sexual selection, social selection, or species recognition? Journal of Zoology 283: 3-17.
- Padian, K., and J.R. Horner. 2011. The definition of sexual selection and its implications for dinosaurian biology. Journal of Zoology 283: 23-27. Read it
2010
- Archibald, J.D., W. A. Clemens, K. Padian, T. Rowe, N. Macleod, P. M. Barrett, A. Gale, P. Holroyd, H.-D. Sues, N. C. Arens, J. R. Horner, G. P. Wilson, M. B. Goodwin, C. A. Brochu, D. L. Lofgren, S. H. Hurlbert, J. H. Hartman, D. A. Eberth, P. B. Wignall, P. J. Currie, A. Weil, G. V. R. Prasad, L. Dingus, V. Courtillot, A. Milner, A. Milner, S. Bajpai, D. J. Ward, and A. Sahni. 2010. Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes. Science. 328: 973
- Lee, A.H., K. Padian, M.T. Taylor, M.J. Wedel, R.B. Irmis, and S. Werning. 2010. The universal temperature dependence model fails to predict body temperatures of mammals and dinosaurs. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2010 Annual Meeting: abstract 98.7.
- Padian, K. 2010. Evolutionary scales and hierarchies: Darwinian themes in the works of Thomas Hardy. In Rosemarie Morgan (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, pp. 217-233.
- Padian, K. 2010. How to Win the Evolution War: Teach Macroevolution! Evolution Education and Outreach, 3: 206-214.
- Padian, K., C. Li, and J. Pchelnikova. 2010. The trackmaker of Apatopus: early diversification of archosaur stance and gait. Palaeontology, 53: 175-189.
- Padian, K., J.M. Mazin, and J.P. Billon-Bruyat. 2010. How pterosaurs landed and why they evolved from bipedal ancestors. Final Program and Abstracts, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2010 Annual Meeting.
2009
- de Ricqlès, A., and K. Padian. 2009. Quelques apports à la théorie de lévolution, de la "Synthèse orthodoxe" è la "Super synthèse évo-dévo" 1970-2009: un point de vue / Some contributions to evolutionary theory, from the "orthodox Synthesis" to the "Evo-devo Super synthesis" 1970-2009: a point of view. Comptes Rendus PalEvol 8:341-364.
- Horner, J.R., A. de Ricqlès, K. Padian, and R.D. Scheetz. 2009. Comparative long bone histology and growth of the "hypsilophodontid" dinosaurs Orodromeus makelai, Dryosaurus altus, and Tenontosaurus tillettii (Ornithischia: Euornithopoda). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):734-747.
- Knoll, F., K. Padian, and A. de Ricqlès. 2009. Ontogenetic change and adult body size of the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus: Implications for basal ornithischian taxonomy. Gondwana Research, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.03.010
- Mazin, J.-M., J.-P. Billon-Bruyat, and K. Padian. 2009. First record of a pterosaur landing trackway. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1161
- Padian, K. 2009. "Confuciusornis."Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 24 June 2009. Read it
- Padian, K. 2009. "Scutellosaurus." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 24 June 2009. Read it
- Padian, K. 2009. Birds. In Michael Ruse, Joe Travis, and Jason Zinser (eds.), A Companion to Evolution. Harvard University Press.
- Padian, K. 2009. Comment on the proposed conservation of usage of Archaeopteryx lithographica von Meyer, 1861 (Aves) by designation of a neotype (Case 3390). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(4):1-2.
- Padian, K. 2009. Darwin, Dover, and Intelligent Design. ArtefaCToS 2(1): 24-37. [artefactos.usal.es]
- Padian, K. 2009. Dinosauromorph. Encyclopedia Brittanica.
- Padian, K. 2009. Feathered dinosaurs. Encyclopedia Brittanica.
- Padian, K. 2009. Introduction to Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails), by M. Young and P. K. Strode. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ.
- Padian, K. 2009. Mystery ape: a call for taxonomic rigour. Nature 460: 684.
- Padian, K. 2009. Review of Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds, by John Long and Peter Schouten. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 121:657-658.
- Padian, K. 2009. Ten myths about Charles Darwin. BioScience 59:800-804.
- Padian, K. 2009. The evolution of creationists in the United States: Where are they now, and where are they going? Comptes Rendus (Paris) Biologie 332:100-109.
- Padian, K. 2009. Q&A: Kevin Padian. Current Biology 19 (17):R722-723.
- Padian, K., and A. de Ricqlès 2009. L'origine et l'évolution des oiseaux: 35 années du progrès / The origin and evolution of birds: 35 years of progress. Comptes Rendus PalEvol 8:257-280.
- Padian, K., and N. Matzke. 2009. Darwin, Dover, "Intelligent Design" and textbooks. Biochemical Journal 417:29-42.
2008
- Padian, K. 2008. Darwin's enduring legacy. Nature 451: 632-634.
- Padian, K. 2008. How to get coverage of major evolutionary adaptive changes into textbooks and curricula. Final Program and Abstracts, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2005 Annual Meeting.
- Padian, K. 2008. Improving evolution education. Geotimes 53: 59.
- Padian, K. 2008. Review of Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time by Andrew Radford. The Hardy Review 10: 84-86.
- Padian, K. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Campylognathoides Strand, 1928. Special Papers in Palaeontology 80: 65-107.
- Padian, K. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori 1830). Special Papers in Palaeontology 80: 1-64.
- Padian, K. 2008. Trickle-down evolution: an approach to getting major evolutionary adaptive changes into textbooks and curricula. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48: 175-188.
- Padian, K. 2008. Were pterosaur ancestors bipedal or quadrupedal?: Morphometric, functional, and phylogenetic considerations. Zitteliana 28B: 21-28.
- Padian, K. 2008. Why do so many people not accept evolution? In M.J. Benton (ed.), Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames and Hudson, London.
- Padian, K., and Cheng Li. 2008. The early evolution of archosaur stance and gait. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (3, suppl.): 124A.
- Ricqlès, A. de., K. Padian, F. Knoll, and J.R. Horner. 2008. On the origin of rapid growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: complementary histological studies on Triassic archosauriforms and the problem of a "phylogenetic signal" in bone histology. Annales de Paleontologie 94: 57-76.
2007
- Brakora, K., and K. Padian. 2007. Quantification and phylogenetic correlation of sexual morphotypes in Bovidae (Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (3, suppl.): 52A.
- Faux, C.M., and K. Padian. 2007. The opisthotonic posture of vertebrate skeletons: post-mortem contraction or death throes? Paleobiology 33: 201-226.
- Irmis, R.B., Nesbitt, S.J., Padian, K., Smith, N.D., Turner, A.H., Woody, D., and Downs, A. 2007. A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs. Science 317:358-361. (DOI: 10.1126/science.1143325) Read it
- Knoll, F., K. Padian, and A. de Ricqlès. 2007. The growth trajectory and adult size of Lesothosaurus diagnosticus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): taxonomic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.).
- Padian, K. 2007. Dinosaurs digging deeper. Proceedings, Royal Society of London. B274 : 1359-1360.
- Padian, K. 2007. How vertebrate palentologists can change the public understanding of evolution. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.): 127A.
- Padian, K. 2007. Lessons Learned from the "Intelligent Design" Trial. Final Program and Abstracts, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2005 Annual Meeting.
- Padian, K. 2007. Review of After the Dinosaurs, by D.R. Prothero. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (6): 37.
- Padian, K. 2007. Review of Dawn of the Dinosaurs, by Nicholas Fraser. Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol 10, No 1.
- Padian, K. 2007. Review of Lecointre and Le Guyader: The Tree of Life. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (6): 39-40.
- Padian, K. 2007. Richard Owen's Quadrophenia: The pull of opposing forces in Victorian cosmogony. Pp. 53-91, Introductory essay in R. Amundson (ed.), The Nature of Limbs, by Richard Owen. University of Chicago Press.
- Padian, K. 2007. The case of creation. [Review of three books about the "intelligent design" trial in Dover, PA.] Nature 448: 253-254.
- Padian, K., and K. Angielczyk. 2007. "Transitional forms" versus transitional features. Pp. 197-230 In Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism (ed. A.J. Petto and L. R. Godfrey). W.W. Norton & Co., New York.
2006
- Billon-Bruyat, J-P., J-M. Mazin, and K. Padian. 2006. First record of a pterosaur landing trackway. 4th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern, abstracts, 22.
- A. de Ricqlès, K. Padian, F. Knoll, and J.R. Horner. 2006. On the origin of high growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: do histological characters reflect a phylogenetic signal? Abstracts of the 2nd International Paleontological Congress, June 17-21, Beijing, China (PST 96) Supplementary abstracts, page 563.
- Goodwin, M. B., W. A. Clemens, J. R. Horner, and K. Padian. 2006. The smallest known Triceratops skull: New observations on ceratopsid cranial anatomy and ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):103-112. Read it
- Padian, K. 2006. Pterosauria. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
- Padian, K. 2006. Review of The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bone: Deciphering biology with fine-scale techniques, by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 60: 76-79.
- Padian, K. 2006. The origin of flight in birds. In T.R. Holtz (ed.), The Random House Look-It-Up Book of Dinosaurs.
- Padian, K. 2006. Tiktaalik roseae. Encyclopedia Brittanica (online edition).
- Padian, K. 2006. Tyrannosaur. Encyclopedia Brittanica (online edition).
- Padian, K., and K.P. Dial. 2006. Was there a "four-winged" transitional stage between dinosaurs and birds? Final Program and Abstracts, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2006 Annual Meeting.
- Padian, K., and P. Barrett. 2006. Dinosauria. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, pp. 560-573.
- Padian, K., J.R. Horner, and A. Lee. 2006. Sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs?: a review of the evidence. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (3, suppl.): 98A.
- Ricqlès, A.J. de, J.R. Horner, and K. Padian. 2006. The interpretation of dinosaur growth patterns. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 596-597.
2005
- Main, R.P., A. de Ricqlès, J.R. Horner, and K. Padian. 2005. The evolution and function of thyreophoran scutes: Implications for plate function in stegosaurs. Paleobiology 31:293-316.
- Padian, K., K. Dial. 2005. Could 'four-winged' dinosaurs fly? Nature 438:doi:10.1038/nature04354.