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.

Philippe Janvier received the award of the Grand prix scientifique de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca (Institut de France) on june 11th, 2008 for his work [1].

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, 2003. Early Vertebrates (1996); Early Vertebrates (2003). 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.

Link

• Philippe Janvier at Canal Academic