Email: kpadian@berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 642-7434

Web page: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/padian/home.php

His research: Kevin Padian is interested in how large-scale changes get started in evolution. He and his colleagues work to address questions such as "how did flight evolve?" and "how did dinosaurs walk?"

Why he loves his work: "That it's different every day (I always have new problems to work on). That I can work … all over the world. That there are great people in my field from all backgrounds. That we're learning cool stuff all the time. That you're part of a profession with an amazing historical legacy …. That you have to know something about a lot of different fields in order to do it properly. And that five-year-olds are as interested in what you do as you are."

Read more about Padian in his UCMP profile.

Read a transcript of Padian's testimony in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial concerning the inclusion of intelligent design materials in high school biology classes.

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.

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. Mystery ape: a call for taxonomic rigour. Nature 460: 684.

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.

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)  

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.