Philippe Janvier

Philippe Janvier is a French paleontologist, working at the Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

Philippe is a specialist in Palaeozoic vertebrates, and has written a number of scientific papers on the subject, as well as a definitive book, Early Vertebrates, he has also contributed to the Tree of Life phylogeny project.

Bibliography

• Janvier, Philippe. (1993). Patterns of diversity in the skull of jawless fishes. In The Skull (ed. J. Hanken and B. K. Hall), Vol. 2, pp. 131-188. The University of Chicago Press.
• Janvier, Philippe. 1996. The dawn of the vertebrates: Characters versus common ascent in the rise of current vertebrate phylogenies. Palaeontology. 39:259-287.
• Janvier, Philippe. 1996. Early Vertebrates. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, v. 33, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, ISBN 0-19-854047-7 392 pp. - a comprehensive review of the phylogyny and technical characteristics of Paleozoic fish
• Forey, P. L., and Janvier, P. (1993). Agnathans and the origin of jawed vertebrates. Nature, 361, 129-134.
• Forey, P. L., and Janvier, P. (1994). Evolution of the early vertebrates. American Scientist, 82, 554-565.
• McBirney, Alex and Philippe Janvier The Trilobite Affair, Libri Terrarum, ISBN 0-9772425-44 ; 350 pages - on French geologist Jacques Deprat, who was accused of falsifying his data by using spurious fossils. Janvier, who has worked in the same regions where Deprat worked in Vietnam and has a personal familiarity with much of the background of this famous case. This book argues that Deprat was the victim of a vicious conspiracy. (link)

Link

• Philippe Janvier at Canal Academic