Christopher Gilbert

Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Hunter College City University of New York

Education

A.B. 2000, Duke University M.A. 2005, Stony Brook University Ph.D. 2008, Stony Brook University

Contact

Email:

Tel: (212) 396-6578

Fax: (212) 772-5423

Overview of Research

His dissertation research focused on African papionin phylogeny and biogeography during the Plio-Pleistocene and its relationship to hominin biogeography during this time period.  More broadly, Chris is interested in primate evolution during the past 65 million years with research projects spanning from the Eocene to the present.  Current research interests include:

- Evolutionary history and phylogenetic systematics of the cercopithecoids, biogeography of Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecoids and its relationship to hominin biogeography

- 3-D geometric morphometrics in the analysis of primate cranial diversity

- Congruence of molecules and morphology in phylogenetic analysis, character coding methodology in cladistics, comparison of cladistic and morphometric methods in phylogenetic analysis

- Ecomorphology, diversity, and biogeography of Eocene euprimates

- Eocene-Oligocene primate ecomorphology, diversity, biogeography, and evolution

Publications

Journal Articles

Gilbert CC, Stanley WT, OlsonLE, DavenportTRB, and Sargis EJ.  (in revision). Morphological systematics of the kipunji (Rungwecebus kipunji) and the ontogenetic development of phylogenetically informative characters in the Papionini.  Journal of Human Evolution.

Gilbert CC, Goble ED, and Hill A.  (in press).  Miocene Cercopithecoidea from the Tugen Hills, Kenya.  Journal of Human Evolution.

Gilbert CC.  (2010).  Phylogenetic analysis of the African papionin basicranium using 3-D geometric morphometrics: the need for improved methods to account for allometric effects.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology  DOI 10.1002/ajpa.21370

Fleagle JG, Gilbert CC, and Baden AL.  (2010).  Primate cranial diversity.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142: 565-578.

Gilbert CC and Grine FE.  (2010).  Morphometric variation in the papionin muzzle and the biochronology of the South African Plio-Pleistocene karst cave deposits.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141: 418-429.

Gilbert CC, Frost SR, and Strait DS.  (2009).  Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and phylogeny: a cladistic analysis of extant African papionins using craniodental data.  Journal of Human Evolution 57: 298-320.

Gilbert CC, McGraw WS, and Delson E.  (2009).  Plio-Pleistocene eagle predation on fossil cercopithecids from the Humpata Plateau, southern Angola.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139: 421-429. 

Gilbert CC.  (2007).  Identification and description of the first Theropithecus (Primates: Cercopithecidae) material from Bolt's Farm, South Africa.  Annals of the Transvaal Museum 44: 1-10. 

Olejniczak AJ, Gilbert CC, Martin LB, Smith TM, Ulhaas L, and Grine, F.  (2007).  Maxillary molar enamel-dentine junction morphology in anthropoid primates.  Journal of Human Evolution 53: 292-301. 

Gilbert CC and Rossie JB.  (2007).  Congruence of molecules and morphology using a narrow allometric approach.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 11910-11914.

Gilbert CC.  (2007).  Craniomandibular morphology supporting the diphyletic origin of mangabeys and a new genus of the Cercocebus/Mandrillus clade,Procercocebus.  Journal of Human Evolution 53: 69-102. 

Patel BA, Gilbert CC, and Ericson KE.  (2007).  Cercopithecoid cervical vertebral morphology and implications for the presence of Theropithecus in early Pleistocene Europe.  Journal of Human Evolution 52: 113-129. 

Gilbert CC.  (2005).  Dietary ecospace and the diversity of euprimates during the Early and Middle Eocene.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 126: 237-249.

Pochron ST, Fitzgerald J, Gilbert CC, Lawrence D, Grgas M, Rakotonirina G, Ratsimbazafy R, Rakotosoa R, and Wright PC.  (2003).  Patterns of female dominance in Propithecus diadema edwardsi of Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.  American Journal of Primatology 61: 173-185.    

Gilbert CC, Goble ED, Kingston JD, and Hill A.  (in prep).  Partial Skeleton of Theropithecus brumpti (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from the Chemeron Formation of the Tugen Hills, Kenya.  Journal of Human Evolution. 

Rossie, JB, Gilbert CC, and Hill A.  (in prep).  Early colobines from the Tugen Hills, Kenya.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Gilbert CC.  (in prep).  A general method to adjust for allometric effects in the phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters.

 

Edited Book Chapters

Fleagle JG and Gilbert CC.  (in press).  Introduction to All the World’s Primates.  In: All the World’s Primates, Rowe N, ed.  Charlestown: Pogonias Press.

Baden AL and Gilbert CC.  (in press).  Entry for Propithecus coquereli.  In: All the World’s Primates, Rowe N, ed.  Charlestown: Pogonias Press.

Fleagle JG, Royer DF, and Gilbert CC.  (in press).  Entry for Homo sapiens.  In: All the World’s Primates, Rowe N, ed.  Charlestown: Pogonias Press.

Jernvall J, Gilbert CC, and Wright, PC.  (2008).  Peculiar teeth homologies of the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus): when is a paracone not a paracone?  In:Elwyn L. Simons: A Search for Origins, Fleagle JG and Gilbert CC, eds.  New York: Springer.  pp. 335-342.

Simons EL, Chatrath P, Gilbert CC, and Fleagle JG.  (2008).  Five Decades in the Fayum.  In:Elwyn L. Simons: A Search for Origins, Fleagle JG and Gilbert CC, eds.  New York: Springer.  pp. 51-70.

Fleagle JG and Gilbert CC.  (2006).  Biogeography and the primate fossil record: the role of tectonics, climate, and chance.  In: Primate Biogeography, Lehman S and Fleagle JG, eds.  New York: Springer.  pp. 375-418.