Charles R. Marshall

Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Phone: 617-495-2572
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Office: 111A MCZ, 26 Oxford St

Website: http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/InvertPaleo/

Use of techniques in paleontology, developmental biology, statistics, molecular and morphological phylogenetics to understand the nature and causes of evolutionary innovation and extinction over geological time scales.

Recent Publications

Marshall, CR. 2008. A simple mthod for bracketing absolute divergence time on molecular phylogenies using multiple fossil calibration points. American Naturalist (in press)

Ramirez SR, Gravendeel B, Singer RB, Marshall CR, Pearce NE. 2007. Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator. Nature 448 (7157): 1042-1045

Marshall CR. 2007. Explaining latitudinal diversity gradients. Science 317 (5837): 451-452

Markey MJ, Marshall CR. 2007. Terrestrial-style feeding in a very early aquatic tetrapod is supported by evidence from experimental analysis of suture morphology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (17): 7134-7138

Markey, MJ., and CR. Marshall. 2007. Linking form and function of the fibrous joints in the skull: A new quantification scheme for cranial sutures using the extant fish Polypterus endlicherii. Journal of Morphology 268: 89–102

Soligo, Will, CO, Tavaré S, Marshall CR, Martin,RD. 2007. New light on the dates of primate origins and divergence. In: Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, Ravosa MJ and Dagosto M, (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 29-49.

Markey MJ, Main RM, Marshall CR. 2006. In vivo cranial suture function and suture morphology in the extant fish Polypterus: Implications for inferring skull function in living and fossil fish. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2085-2102.

Marshall CR. 2006. Fossil record reveals tropics as cradle and museum. Science 314 (5796): 66-67

Marshall CR. 2006. Explaining the Cambrian "explosion" of animals. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 34: 355-384

Lu P, Yogo M, Marshall, CR. 2006. Phanerozoic marine biodiversity dynamics in light of the incompleteness of the fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: 2736-2739.

Courses Taught

OEB 113. Paleobiological Perspectives on Ecology and Evolution

OEB 181. Systematics

OEB 313. Paleobiological Approaches to Evolution and Ecology