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Date of Birth
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21-February-1954
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Place of Birth
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Glendale
(Los Angeles County, California, United States of America, Area code 747, Area code 818)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Donald Prothero, Donald Ross Prothero
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Donald Ross Prothero is an American paleontologist, geologist, and author who specializes in mammalian paleontology. His research has been in the field of magnetostratigraphy, a technique to date rock layers of the Cenozoic era and its use to date the climate changes which occurred 30-40 million years ago. He is currently the author or editor of more than 30 books and over 250 scientific papers, including five geology textbooks.
Stephen Jay Gould cited Prothero's research on the lack of response to climate change in mammals from the Eocene, Oligocene and Pleistocene epochs to support the punctuated equilibrium model of evolution. He called Prothero “the best punctuated equilibrium researcher on the West Coastâ€.
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