A Jugal in the Rough: The Evolutionary Importance of the Zygoma

Laitman, Jeffrey T.

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“…Indeed, editorial co‐author JL has written previously on how Peter's kindness helped him as an insecure and shy (no comments out there, please!). Yale graduate student to survive his overwhelming fears at the onset of his own path (see Laitman, 2017). More to our point here is how his own dinosaur‐philic graduate students and mentees have grown and prospered in significant part due to his loving guidance.…”

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Dinosaurs of all ilks bow and pay tribute to Peter Dodson, their intrepid chronicler, in an Anatomical Record Special Issue in his honor

Laitman

Smith

2023

The Anatomical Record

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Amazing how even after half of a century some things do not change. Together again at the University of Pennsylvania, Peter Dodson and editorial co-author JL are energetically talking about six things at once, catching up as old friends are wont to do. Walking along the beautiful, tree-lined, quiet of Locust walk, topics bounce from new dinosaur finds, to what the children (and grandchildren!) are up to, to which of our body parts are the latest to stop working well (hey, we have known each other for some 50 years!). As has been the case since our days together at Yale, JL is lagging behind as Peter's energy, now as back in New Haven, has him moving ever faster than his old anatomy table mate. "C'mon, Jeff," the august Penn Prof admonishes, "we finally get an audience with Professor Leidy, and let's not be late!" Yes, indeed. We have finally arranged a formal audience to see Professor Joseph Leidy, or, more specifically, his brain. For those of you who are not acquainted with Professor Leidy (shame, shame!), he was America's first dinosaur paleontologist of note, having reported and named (in 1858 and1865;Leidy, 1858Leidy, , 1865 the first American dinosaur, the "duck-billed" Hadrosaurus, unearthed in New Jersey (and you thought the state's only remains of note were those of Mob boss Jimmy Hoffa!). Subsequently, Leidy reconstructed Hadrosaurus at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1868, the first museum display of any dinosaur. He estimated it to be 25 ft long and, based on its small forelimbs and long hind limbs, gave it a "kangaroo-like" stance with a semi-upright posture. Indeed, this vertical position became the image of dinosaurs imprinted in our collective visualization that remains to this day (see Dodson, 2009 for discussion). Leidy's day job was as the Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (the first in the United States), and he was a polymath of such renown that his biographer boldly titled his story, Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything (Warren, 1999). Indeed, when the parent organization of The Anatomical Record, the American Association for Anatomy was formed in 1888 (originally named the Association of American Anatomists, today seen as an exclusionary banner, but done then to

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Dinosaurs of all ilks bow and pay tribute to Peter Dodson, their intrepid chronicler, in an Anatomical Record Special Issue in his honor

Laitman

Smith

2023

The Anatomical Record

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“…Indeed, JL, also a graduate student at Yale during Dodson's time (we were table mates in Gross Anatomy Laboratory, the wise Dodson during his last year of study guiding the fumbling JL during his first months). Peter was to JL, as he has been to so many, a big brother, advisor, and always‐positive cheerleader who lifted one up when they were down (see Laitman, , for discussion of Peter's influence). Not only was Peter a mentor to JL, he later served as an advisor to JL's son, Ben, who was an undergraduate at Penn.…”

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Dinosaurs Again Thunder into the Pages of The Anatomical Record in a Special Issue Exploring their Hidden Worlds

Laitman¹,

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2020

The Anatomical Record

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“…With the above as prelude, The Anatomical Record has been a fertile and creative home for studies that explore the natural past and/or test hypotheses on evolutionary mechanisms that have effectuated extant vertebrate morphology. Indeed, nary an issue of our journal sees the press that does not contain such, and we have featured many Special Issues on evolutionary topics, such as those on: “The Evolution of Primate Special Senses” (Dominy et al, ; Laitman, ); “Anatomical Adaptations of Aquatic Mammals” (Laitman, ; Reidenberg, ); “Unearthing the Anatomy of Dinosaurs” (Dodson, ; Laitman, ); “Evolutionary and Functional Morphology of New World Primates” (Laitman, ; Rosenberger, ); “The Vertebrate Nose: Evolution, Structure and Function” (Laitman, ; Van Valkenburgh et al, ); “Understanding the Zygoma: A Key Morphological Partition in the Craniofacial Skeleton, Evolution” (Dechow and Wang, ; Laitman, .) Indeed, our cup runneth over!…”

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The Anatomical Record Marches on by Exploring Evolution in the Second Part of Our Special Issue on the Human Pelvis

Laitman¹,

Albertine²

2017

The Anatomical Record

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A Jugal in the Rough: The Evolutionary Importance of the Zygoma

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Dinosaurs of all ilks bow and pay tribute to Peter Dodson, their intrepid chronicler, in an Anatomical Record Special Issue in his honor

Dinosaurs of all ilks bow and pay tribute to Peter Dodson, their intrepid chronicler, in an Anatomical Record Special Issue in his honor

Dinosaurs Again Thunder into the Pages of The Anatomical Record in a Special Issue Exploring their Hidden Worlds

The Anatomical Record Marches on by Exploring Evolution in the Second Part of Our Special Issue on the Human Pelvis

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