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Christopher C. Gilbert

Christopher C. Gilbert

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Christopher Gilbert is a professor in the Department of Anthropology.

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Dr. Christopher Gilbert is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College. Currently, he oversees the Gilbert Primate Evolution Lab, which houses a small osteological collection and cast collection relating to human and primate evolution. The lab uses 3D imaging equipment and software to analyze fossil specimens and microscopes, cameras and measuring tools for anatomical comparisons. He teaches and supervises CUNY graduate students, Hunter undergraduates and local high school students as well. Outside of Hunter College, Dr. Gilbert serves as a member of the doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). He is also a research associate in the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.

As a primate paleontologist, Dr. Gilbert's scholarship focuses broadly on many topics over the last 66 million years of primate and mammalian evolutionary history, with research projects spanning the Eocene to the present, with a particular emphasis on craniodental anatomy and phylogenetic systematics. He has published many papers on Old World monkey systematics and evolution, and more recent papers on African and Asian hominoid evolutionary history and biogeography.

Over the past 10 years, Dr. Gilbert has been conducting paleontological fieldwork in the Neogene deposits of the Indian Siwalik Hills, particularly the Lower Siwaliks near Ramnagar, in association with Dr. Rajeev Patnaik (Panjab Univ.), Dr. Biren Patel (USC) and Dr. Chris Campisano (Arizona State Univ.). In collaboration with Dr. Ross Secord (Univ. of Nebraska), Dr. Stephen Chester (Brooklyn College, CUNY) and Dr. Amy Chew (Brown Univ.), he is also interested in early primate evolution and its response to the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Dr. Gilbert has been generously funded by PSC-CUNY, Hunter College, the Leakey Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Gilbert received his undergraduate degree in biological anthropology and anatomy from Duke University, becoming interested in primate evolution and the fossil record after taking classes with famed primate paleontologist Dr. Elwyn Simons. He received his PhD from Stony Brook University in 2008 focusing on plio-pleistocene African monkey evolution and biogeography (Dr. John Fleagle, advisor), and later received his postdoctoral fellowship studying extant and fossil African monkeys at Yale University with Dr. Andrew Hill and Dr. Eric Sargis.

Educational Background

  • Stony Brook University (PhD)
  • Stony Brook University (MA)
  • Duke University (BA)

Selected Publications

  • Gilbert CC, Gilissen E, Arenson JL, Patel BA, Nakatsukasa M, Hart TB, Hart JA, Detwiler KM, and Sargis EJ. (in press). "Morphological analysis of new Cercopithecus dryas specimens from the central Congo Basin: taxonomic considerations and an emended diagnosis." American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
  • Gilbert CC, Ortiz A., Patel BA, Singh NP, Campisano CJ, Fleagle JG, Pugh KD, and Patnaik R. (2020). "New Middle Miocene ape (Primates: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20201655. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1655
  • Arenson JL, Sargis EJ, Hart JA, Hart TB, Detwiler KM, and Gilbert CC. (2020). "Skeletal morphology of the lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) and the evolution of guenon locomotor behavior." American Journal of Physical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24025
  • Gilbert CC, Sehgal RK, *Pugh KD, Campisano CJ, Singh NP, May E, Patel BA, Patnaik R. (2019). "New Sivapithecus specimen from Ramnagar (J & K), India and a taxonomic revision of Ramnagar hominoids." Journal of Human Evolution 135: 102665. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102665)
  • Pugh KD and Gilbert CC. (2018). "Phylogenetic relationships of living and fossil African papionins: combined evidence from morphology and molecules." Journal of Human Evolution 123: 35-51.
  • Gilbert CC, Frost SR, Pugh KD, Anderson M, and Delson E (2018). "Evolution of the modern baboon (Papio hamadryas): A reassessment of the African Plio-Pleistocene record." Journal of Human Evolution 122: 38-69.
  • Fuchs AJ, Gilbert CC, and Kamilar JM. (2018). "Ecological niche modeling of the genus Papio." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166: 812-823.
  • Singh NP, Gilbert CC, Patel BA, and Patnaik R. (2018). "The taphonomy, palaeoecology and biochronology of the Middle Miocene hominoid locality of Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir, India)." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 162: 69-83.
  • Nengo I, Tafforeau P, Gilbert CC, Fleagle JG, Miller E, Feibel C, Fox D, Feinberg J, Pugh KD, Berruyer C, Engle Z, and Spoor F. (2017). "New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution." Nature 548: 169-174.
  • Gilbert CC and Jungers WL. (2017). "Comment on relative brain size in early primates and the use of encephalization quotients in primate evolution." Journal of Human Evolution 109: 79-87.
  • Gilbert CC, Patel BA, *Singh NP, Campisano CJ, Fleagle JG, Rust KL, and Patnaik R. (2017). "New sivaladapid primate from Lower Siwalik deposits surrounding Ramnagar, Jammu and Kashmir State, India." Journal of Human Evolution 102: 21-41.
  • Singleton M, Gilbert CC, Frost SR, and Seitelman, BC. (2016). "Comparative morphometric analysis of a juvenile papionin (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from Kromdraai A." Annals of the Ditsong Museum of Natural History 6: 1-17.
  • Boyer DM, Kirk EC, Silcox MT, Gunnell GF, Gilbert CC, Yapuncich GS, Allen KL, Welch E, Bloch JI, Gonzalez L, Kay RF, and Seiffert ER. (2016). "Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates." Journal of Human Evolution 97: 123-144.
  • Fleagle JG, Gilbert CC, and Baden AL. (2016). "Comparing primate crania: the importance of fossils." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161: 259-275.
  • Gilbert CC, Frost SR, and Delson E. (2016a). "Reassessment of the Olduvai Bed I cercopithecoids: a new biochronological and biogeographical link to the South African fossil record." Journal of Human Evolution 92: 50-59.
  • Gilbert CC, Takahashi MQ, and Delson E. (2016b). "Cercopithecoid humeri from Taung support the distinction of major papionin clades in the South African fossil record." Journal of Human Evolution 90: 88-104.
  • Frost SF, Sena C, and Gilbert CC (in press). "Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecoid evolution and biogeography: a contemporaneous comparison with Paranthropus." In: Constantino PJ, Reed KE, Wood BA (Eds.), The Forgotten Lineage(s): Paelobiology of Paranthropus.
  • Gilbert CC and Hill A. (in press). Chapter 13: "Primates of the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi." In: Sands of Time, Bibi F, Hill A, Beech MJ, Kraatz B, eds. Springer.
  • Gilbert CC, Pugh KD, and Fleagle JG. (2020). Chapter 17: "Dispersal of Miocene hominoids (and pliopithecoids) from Africa to Eurasia in light of changing tectonics and climate." In: Prasad GVR, Patnaik R (Eds.), Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwanal and Break-up- A Tribute to Ashok Sahni. Cham: Springer. pp. 393-412.

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