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Kevin Padian
Kevin Padian (born 1951) is an
American paleontologist and
evolutionary biologist. He is Professor of
Integrative Biology and Curator of the Museum of Paleontology
Emeritus at the
University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1980 to 2020. Padian's research focuses on
vertebrate evolution, especially the origins of flight, the
paleobiology of
pterosaurs, the emergence of dinosaurs across the
Triassic-
Jurassic boundary, the evolution of birds from
theropod dinosaurs, the growth dynamics of dinosaurs and related fossil reptiles, and the interpretation of
fossilized footprints.
[2] He has also focused on the history of evolutionary thought, particularly surrounding the
Victorian Age and the
European Enlightenment, regarding
Transcendentalism and the evolving interpretation of
morphology, as well as the emergence of the theory of evolution by Darwin and his contemporaries. Padian has authored and co-authored nearly 150 scientific articles and some 200 reviews, perspectives, and popular articles, and has co-edited and co-written ten books.
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