Ingmar WerneburgSenckenberg Research Institute · Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment
Ingmar Werneburg
Research in Evolutionary Vertebrate Morphology, Curator of Paleontology
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Introduction
Using the ‘comprehensive organism concept’, a holistic understanding of evolutionary processes is possible. Therein, the whole life of an organism - from fertilization to dead - is understood as a process of development on which selection can act through evolution. Heterochronies - changes in the developmental timing of characters - are hypothesized to have fundamental impact on shaping an adult structure. In mutual dependence with those, spatial reorganizations take place during development, so called heterotopies. Both mechanisms, together with allometric change, enable the evolution of new morphotypes.
With the help of standardized developmental characters, I study the patterns of embryonic timing in a variety of land vertebrate species, including turtles, snakes, lizards, and diverse mammalian groups. Given the recent advances in molecular systematics, a comprehensive (falcifiable) phylogenetic framework is provided, which I use to trace evolutionary developmental changes and discuss those in the context of morphological diversification. Besides organogenesis, also patterns of skeletogenesis and some genetic aspects of development and evolution are observed.
On a histological scale, development of particular organs is studied – a classic comparative embryological approach – in order to detect homologies, to uncover patterns of recapitulation, and to trace spatial developmental changes that lead to adult morphology.
For adult anatomy, similar to my embryological studies, I concentrate on the craniocervical system of tetrapods and some fish. One focus lies on the morphology of the musculature and other soft tissues, their anatomical diversity, phylogenetic distribution, and functional integration. Another focus lies on the interrelationship of head and neck morphology.
Additional affiliations
January 2016 - present
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment an der Universität Tübingen
Position
- Lecturer
January 2015 - December 2015
Position
- Researcher (SNF funded)
January 2012 - October 2013
Education
April 2018 - April 2018
August 2007 - October 2010
October 2001 - May 2007
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Publications (204)
Staged embryonic series are important as reference for different kinds of biological studies. I summarise problems that occur when using 'staging tables' of 'model organisms'. Investigations of developmental processes in a broad scope of taxa are becoming commonplace. Beginning in the 1990s, methods were developed to quantify and analyse developmen...
Turtles have the unparalleled ability to retract their heads and necks within their shell but little is known about the evolution of this trait. Extensive analysis of neck mobility in turtles using radiographs, CT scans, and morphometry reveals that basal turtles possessed less mobility in the neck relative to their extant relatives, although the a...
The Palaeontological Collection Tübingen is one of the oldest and richest university collections of the world. Famous researchers such as von Quenstedt, von Huene, Schindewolf and Seilacher were active in Tübingen and donated their collections. Highlights are comprehensive synapsid, marine reptile and ichnofossil collections and fossils from the Sw...
One of the major questions in evolutionary vertebrate morphology is the origin and meaning of temporal skull openings in land vertebrates. Partly or fully surrounded by bones, one, two, or even three openings may evolve behind the orbit, within the ancestrally fully roofed anapsid (scutal) skull. At least ten different morphotypes can be distinguis...
Following the traditional and holistic concept of Vergleichende (Comparative) Entwicklungsgeschichte, Wolfgang Maier studied different aspects of vertebrate morphology, including dentition, the locomotor apparatus, nasal and ear regions. His work comprises investigations on pre- to postnatal stages of extant species as well as fossils and is mainly...
Based on histological cross sections, the chondrocranium of the common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) was reconstructed, described, and compared to other turtles. It differs from that other turtle chondrocrania by possessing elongated, slightly dorsally orientated nasal capsules with three dorsolateral foramina, which might be homologous to th...
Whereas mammals are characterized by the presence of three middle ear ossicles, reptiles have only one, the columella (stapes). Nevertheless, there is a great diversity of columellar anatomy among sauropsids, especially in the unique and cartilaginous “extracolumella”‐portion. Molecular studies revealed the “columella” of chicken and quails to be f...
The earliest mammals are characterized by a series of derived characters when compared to their synapsid predecessors. In comparison to non-mammalian synapsids, these features include highly efficient teeth, a small body size, a parasagittal limb posture, as well as a reduced number of ribs and girdle elements and light-weighed tails. The mammalian...
Using four extinct land vertebrate species as examples, I discuss ontogenetic strategies as well as the potential influence of bite- and other external forces on the formation of the land vertebrate skull. In principle, areas under biomechanical stress are strongly ossified, whereas regions with little or no stress show only weak or no ossification...
JAHRESHEFTE FÜR NATURKUNDE IN WÜRTTEMBERG. Die klassische Unterteilung in anapside, synapside und diapside Landwirbeltierschädel wird noch heute in jeder Grundvorlesung zur Vergleichenden Anatomie diskutiert. Dabei wird schnell klar, daß diese Kategorien nur oberflächliche Beschreibungen darstellen, die wenig über die stammesgeschichtlichen Zusamme...
Journal: Attempto! 61: p. 6-13.
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/newsfullview-attempto/article/wider-das-artensterben-ein-verbessertes-gehoer-als-schluesselentwicklung/
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/attempto-online/newsfullview-attempto-en/article/enhanced-hearing-as-key-innovation-at-a-time-of-mass-extinction/
Coverbild und 17 Tuschegraphiken mit Anmerkungen im Buch
The invasion of terrestrial ecosystems by tetrapods (c. 375 million years [Ma]) represents one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life on Earth. The success of tetrapods on land is linked to evolutionary novelties. Among these, the evolution of a tympanic ear contributed to mitigating the problem of an impedance mismatch betwee...
https://theconversation.com/o-que-o-desenvolvimento-dos-pelos-pode-nos-dizer-sobre-nossos-antigos-ancestrais-238198
https://theconversation.com/what-fur-development-can-tell-us-about-our-ancient-ancestors-232940
Until the mid-nineteenth century, "physiology" was a comprehensive theory of life, expounded and shaped by Johannes P. Müller (1801–1858). Biologists and medical doctors still refer to him today. In the summer term of 1851, Müller gave a lecture on the Comparative Anatomy of animals. This lecture was attended and recorded by Ernst Zeller (1830–1902...
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It has been widely demonstrated that air and sand temperatures influence the anatomy of sea turtle hatchlings. We examined the impact of precipitation during the nesting season on the hatchling body size of loggerhead and green turtles from 37 beaches worldwide. Longitudinal data collected between 2012 and 2018 from Florida (US) and from a sample o...
Turtles have evolved a protective body armor), which makes their entire body construction – from head to tail – different from that of any other living vertebrate. The resulting restriction in trunk movement is compensated for by the flexibility of the neck, limbs, and tail, which can be partially or fully retracted into the shell. The neck retract...
Reptilia feature various modes of reproduction. In particular, researchers have long been interested in the transitions from oviparity to viviparity, as well as other important changes related to the life history in Reptilia. In this chapter, various topics in reptile evolution related to life-history traits are discussed, including the origin of v...
Snakes show remarkably deviated “body plan” from other squamate reptiles. In addition to limb loss, they have accomplished enormous anatomical specialization of the skull associated with the pit organs and the reduction of the tympanic membranes and auditory canals in the outer ears. Despite being the most diverse group of snakes, our knowledge of...
Using histological cross-sections, chondrocranium anatomy was reconstructed for two developmental stages of Hermann´s tortoise (Testudo hermanni). The morphology differs from the chondrocrania of most other turtles by a process above the ectochoanal cartilage with Pelodiscus sinensis being the only other known species with such a structure. The ant...
Review on the book: Karl Porges & Uwe Hoßfeld (2023). Ernst Haeckel in der DDR. THK-Verlag, Arnstadt. 236 pp., 29,90€ - https://thk-verlag.de/alle-produkte/thueringer-wissenschaft/ernst-haeckel-in-der-ddr
Synopsis
The hyoid apparatus of tetrapods is highly diverse in its morphology. It plays an important role in feeding, breathing, sound production, and various other behaviors. Among turtles, the diversity of the hyoid apparatus has been recurrently linked to their habitat. The ossification of the hyoid corpus is often the main trait used in correla...
Cranial anatomy of turtles (CT-scans, PTA-stained). MorphoSource, Project 615051: Heosemys grandis, Chelus fimbricatus, Mauremys caspica, Testudo hermanni, Terrapene Carolina, Platemys platycephala, Gramptemys pseudogeographica, Podocnemis erythrocephala, Platycternon megacephalon, Pelusios niger, Kinosternon subrubrum, Emys orbicularius, Emydura s...
Short Communication on Haeckel's 'aphorisms on the morphology and phylogeny of echinoderms'. In: CHELYOPS - Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen
The complex constructions of land vertebrate skulls have inspired a number of functional analyses. In the present study, we provide a basic view on skull biomechanics and offer a framework for more general observations using advanced modeling approaches in the future. We concentrate our discussion on the cranial openings in the temporal skull regio...
The diversity and evolution of the temporal skull region is a classical text book example of comparative anatomy. In the earliest land vertebrates this region was, in most cases, completely covered by an armor of dermal bones. This armor has been successively reduced over time, leading most famously to the evolution of temporal fenestrae and margin...
The osteology, neuroanatomy, and musculature are known for most primary clades of turtles (i.e., “families”), but knowledge is still lacking for one particular clade, the Carettochelyidae. Carettochelyids are represented by only one living taxon, the pig‐nosed turtle Carettochelys insculpta. Here, we use micro‐computed tomography of osteological an...
Klappentext des Buches: Die „Physiologie“ war bis in die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts eine allumfassende Lehre des Lebens und wurde in herausragender Weise von Johannes Müller (1801–1858) vertreten und geprägt. Biologen und Mediziner beziehen sich noch heute auf ihn. Eine Vorlesung zur Vergleichenden Anatomie der Tiere, die er im Sommersemester 1851...
Die „Physiologie“ war bis in die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts eine allumfassende Lehre des Lebens und wurde in herausragender Weise von Johannes Müller (1801–1858) vertreten und geprägt. Biologen und Mediziner beziehen sich noch heute auf ihn. Eine Vorlesung zur Vergleichenden Anatomie der Tiere, die er im Sommersemester 1851 gehalten hatte, wurde vo...
Short German summary of this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374060260_Darwin_Haeckel_and_the_Mikluskan_gas_organ_theory AND this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375999325_Die_Bestimmung_der_Morphologie_-_Haeckel_Darwin_und_ein_Homologie-Problem
Placodonts were durophagous reptiles of the Triassic seas with robust skulls, jaws, and enlarged, flat, pebble-like teeth. During their evolution, they underwent gradual craniodental changes from the Early Anisian to the Rhaetian, such as a reduction in the number of teeth, an increase in the size of the posterior palatal teeth, an elongation of th...
Interview mit Holger Preuschoft: Persönliche Hintergründe und Weg zur Professur, Funktionelle Morphologie, Universitäre Lehre - CHELYOPS - Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen
The arrangement and morphology of the vertebrate skull reflect functional and ecological demands, making it a highly adaptable structure. However, the fundamental developmental and macroevolutionary mechanisms leading to different vertebrate skull phenotypes remain unclear. Here we exploit the morphological diversity of squamate reptiles to assess...
Der bedeutende Biologe Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) wird häufig als der „Deutsche Darwin“ oder als „Kampfhund Darwins auf dem Festland“ bezeichnet. Er trug maßgeblich zur Popularisierung von Charles Darwins (1809–1882) Evolutionstheorien bei. Mehr Menschen erfuhren über Haeckel als durch Darwin selbst von den Theorien zum gemeinsamen Ursprung aller Ar...
The genus Plateosaurus is one of the most challenging aspects of early-diverging sauropodomorph taxonomy, with a total of 29 names and a century of revisions. As a result, nomina dubia have been treatedas synonyms of Plateosaurus trossingensis, adding to the confusion about the extent of morphological variability. Here, we provide a thorough revisi...
CHELYOPS Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen. Ausgewählte Objekte der Sammlung. Confuciusornis: Blick auf Einzelheiten
Journal: CHELYOPS - Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen. Abstract: Aufgrund von anstehenden Umbaumaßnahmen im Quenstedtbau (Sigwartstraße 10 / Hölderlinstraße 12, Tübingen) wurde die Paläobotanische Schausammlung Anfang 2017 abgebaut. Sie wurde einst von Dr. Gustav Kühner aus Pfalzgrafenweiler mit eigenen Stücken und mit Materia...
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A previously unknown reference to the Russian ethnologist, biologist, and traveler Nikolai N. Miklucho‐Maclay (1846–1888) was discovered in correspondence between Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919). This reference has remained unknown to science, even to Miklucho‐Maclay's biographers, probably because Darwin used the Russian n...
CHELYOPS - Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung Tübingen - Im vorliegenden Artikel wird eine Lehrsammlung der Tübinger Paläontologie vorgestellt. Sie geht auf Otto Heinrich Schindewolf, Adolf Seilacher und ihre Mitarbeiter, die in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts im geowissenschaftlichen Institut wirkten, zurück. Auf etwa 90 Schubläde...
Als Kaiserin Jito nach Yoshino ging. Gedichte nach Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (mit einem umfangreichen Nachwort, Anmerkungen und einem Glossar). Ingmar Werneburg (*1981 in Erfurt) hat mehrere Monate in Japan gelebt. Er nimmt sich die Texte des japanischen „Gottes der Dichtkunst“, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (ca. 660-707), vor und dichtet sie nach. Werneburg...
Aufsatz zu den nachgedichteten Texten im Buch mit den Abschnitten: 1. Einführung, 2. Das Werk, 3. Die vorliegende Nachdichtung, 4. Der Familienursprung Hitomaros, 5. Hitomaros erste Frau, 6. Hitomaros verbotene Liebe zu einer kaiserlichen Zofe, 7. Hitomaros letzte Liebe in Iwami, 8. Der Tod Hitomaros, 9. Die Illustrationen im Buch. - Dazu A) Textve...
The diapsid plesiosaurs were pelagic and inhabited the oceans from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. A key evolutionary character of plesiosaurs are the four wing-like flippers. While it is mostly accepted that plesiosaurs were underwater fliers like marine turtles, penguins, and maybe whales, other swimming styles have been suggested in the past. Th...
The Palaeontological Collection of Tübingen University houses one of the largest collections of ichthyosaur specimens from the Lower Jurassic (Lower Toarcian) Posidonienschiefer Formation fossillagerstätte in the world. It forms an important basis for numerous past and ongoing studies on the taxonomy, evolutionary morphology, ecology, and other asp...
Bats have undergone one of the most drastic limb innovations in vertebrate history, associated with the evolution of powered flight. Knowledge of the genetic basis of limb organogenesis in bats has increased but little has been documented regarding the differences between limb organogenesis in bats and that of other vertebrates. We conducted embryo...
Journal CHELYOPS - Am 8. Oktober 2021 übergab Frau Beate Rau aus Tübingen ein Belthle-Studienmikroskop (Slg.-Nr.: GPIT-PV-116181) und eine Schildplatt-Lupe (Slg.-Nr.: GPIT-PV-116182) aus dem Nachlaß ihres Großvaters Dr. Karl Rau zur Verwahrung an die Paläontologische Sammlung in Tübingen. Die Tübinger Paläontologie beherbergt auch die geologische P...
INHALT: Vorwort und Jahresberichte; Zum 50. Todestag von Friedrich von Huene; Nachruf Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner; Denkschrift zur Bedeutung und zum Zustand der Senckenberg-verwalteten Paläontologischen Sammlung an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen, anno 2021, nebst einem Konvoluten-Inventar ihrer Petrefakte, ihres Literaturbestande...
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/newsfullview-attempto/article/festschrift-und-symposium-fuer-tuebinger-zoologie-professor/
Am 17. Dezember 2022 fand im Hörsaal der Alten Zoologie, heute Paläontologische Sammlung (Quenstedt-Bau, Sigwartstraße 10/Hölderlinstraße 12), ein Symposium zum 80. Geburtstag des Tübinger Zoologie-Professors Dr. Wolfgang Maier statt (Abb. 1). Etwa 70 Gäste waren vor Ort. Den Höhepunkt der Veranstaltung bildete die Übergabe einer Festschrift mit de...
Im Juni und Juli 2022 wurde im Stratigraphischen und im Württemberg-Saal der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen die Kunstausstellung „Die Taten des Lichts“ präsentiert. Sie entstand in Kooperation mit der Graphischen Sammlung am Kunsthistorischen Institut der Universität. In diesem Aufsatz berichte ich über die Hintergründe, den Aufbau und den...
Plesiosaurians evolved four wing-like flippers that are morphologically very similar to each other and were most likely used in underwater flight. Plesiosaurians have been the subject of a long research history as well as a long history of misidentifications and misinterpretations, especially transposition of parts of or entire fore- and hind flipp...
Following the traditional and holistic concept of Vergleichende Entwicklungsgeschichte, Wolfgang Maier studied different aspects of vertebrate morphology, including dentition, the locomotor apparatus, nasal and ear regions. His work comprises investigations on pre- to postnatal stages of extant species as well as fossils and is mainly based on hist...
Wie sah die Welt vor Hunderten von Millionen Jahren aus, als Dinosaurier und andere vorzeitliche Wesen die Erde bevölkerten? Die Paläontologie beschäftigt sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung vorzeitlichen Lebens. Den größten Teil des „Museums der Universität Tübingen“ stellt die Paläontologische Sammlung mit einem Umfang von ungefähr einer...
Studies of domesticated animals have greatly contributed to our understanding of avian embryology. Indeed, foundational questions in developmental biology were motivated by Aristotle’s observations of chicken embryos. By the 19th century, the chicken embryo was at the center stage of developmental biology, but how closely does this model species mi...
We compared embryogenesis of five species of domesticated even-toed and one odd-toed ungulate and used a phylogenetic framework to contextualize such comparison. Organ systems that occur relatively earlier in embryogenesis generally have more time to develop and therefore are found to be more mature at birth when compared to structures that appear...
Review on: Vorlesungen über Menschliche Anatomie von Carl Gegenbaur. Die Vorlesungsmitschrift von Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Miklucho-Maclay aus dem Wintersemester 1865/66. Uwe Hoßfeld, Rosemarie Fröber, Teresa Thieme, Georgy S. Levit, Maria Matveeva, Martin S. Fischer, THK-Verlag Arnstadt, 2022, 272 S., 24,90 Euro, ISBN: 978-3-945068-56-4. + Vorlesung...
The Paleontology Newsletter 111: 37-41. - The Palaeonological Collection in Tübingen, with its purpose of enabling research and teaching palaeontology and evolution, has a long history, which is tightly intertwined with the history of palaeontology in Germany and the field of palaeontology in general (Werneburg 2021a,b).
Many palaeontologists influ...
Newsletter Uni Tübingen aktuelle Nr. 4/2022: Leute (2 pages), https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/newsletter-uni-tuebingen-aktuell/2022/4/leute/7/
Turtles are relatively species-poor, but anatomically very distinct from other reptiles, which yields longstanding debates about their origin among amniotes. On the other hand, an abundant and diverse fossil record, documenting repeated habitat transitions, makes turtles one of the best models for investigating morphological changes associated with...
Nachruf, Lebenslauf, Schriftenverzeichnis - Journal: CHELYOPS . Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen
The labyrinth of the vertebrate inner ear is a sensory system that governs the perception of head rotations. Central hypotheses predict that labyrinth shape and size are related to ecological adaptations, but this is under debate and has rarely been tested outside of mammals. We analyze the evolution of labyrinth morphology and its ecological drive...
Therapsids covered the entire spectrum of terrestrial locomotion from sprawling to parasagittal. Switching between sprawling and more erect locomotion may have been possible in earlier taxa. First, the axial skeleton shows little regionalization and allows lateral undulation evolving then increasingly towards regionalization enabling dorsoventral s...
Warum sieht ein Kopf so aus, wie er aussieht? Mit solchen Fragen beschäftigt sich die Morphologie. Was Formen über das Leben verraten, das ist Ingmar Werneburgs Spezialgebiet. / Why are our heads formed like they are? Morphology deals with questions like this. Ingmar Werneburg specializes in finding out what forms can tell us about life...
A literature review showed that there is not a defined consensus on what specimens belong to Plateosaurus in current phylogenetic analyses, and after the assignation of SMNS 13200 as the neotype for Plateosaurus, the specimen composition of Plateosaurus as an operational taxonomic unit (OTU) needs to be addressed in further iterations of phylogenet...
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The fish to tetrapod transition transformed the tetrapod body plan, eventually allowing tetrapods to move, eat, breathe, and reproduce on land. Reconstruction of soft tissues in early tetrapods and their relatives has the potential to solve controversies about the behavior and ecology of the earliest terrestrial vertebrat...
Journal: MorphoMuseuM - Turtles are one of the most impressive vertebrates. Much of the body is either hidden in a shell or can be drawn into it. Turtles impress with their individual longevity and their often peaceful disposition. Also, with their resilience, they have survived all extinction events since their emergence in the Late Triassic. Toda...
Here we report on a recently discovered student script of a lecture on paleontology given by Ernst Haeckel. It dates to the summer semester of 1866, comprises 63 pages, and provides an overview of fossil invertebrate and mainly fossil vertebrate taxonomy and anatomy. It can be assumed that Russian student Nikolai Nikolajevitch Miklucho-Maclay (1846...
Thanks to new methods of modeling and analysis, we are discovering much more about movement, sensation, and feeding in animals that span the tetrapod water-land transition and the origin of amniotes. As investigations of function in extinct animals become more complex and rigorous, the need to take soft tissues into account becomes more pressing. F...
During development, the embryonic, cartilaginous skull in vertebrates is partially replaced by bones with endochondral and perichondral ossifications. In order to investigate the association between muscle attachments and early ossifications of late term reptilian embryos, we conducted digital 3d reconstructions of the cranium, the head-, and the n...
Aus dem Inhalt: Das Licht der Kindheit / Der lange Weg nach Erfurt / Der Hell-Dunkel-Kontrast / Drangsal und Emanzipation / ‚Professor‘ Werneburg in Altwarp / Die Taten des Lichts / Wort und geschwungene Linie
The present 3D Dataset contains the 3D models analyzed in: Abel P., Pommery Y., Ford D. P., Koyabu D., Werneburg I. 2022 . Skull sutures and cranial mechanics in the Permian reptile Captorhinus aguti and the evolution of the temporal region in early amniotes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.841784
While most early limbed vertebrates possessed a fully-roofed dermatocranium in their temporal skull region, temporal fenestrae and excavations evolved independently at least twice in the earliest amniotes, with several different variations in shape and position of the openings. Yet, the specific drivers behind this evolution have been only barely u...
CHELYOPS- Berichte aus der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen, Band 1, 2022, Seiten 382-390. Zusammenfassung: Die Beschäftigung mit Naturphänomenen, ob auf künstlerische oder wissenschaftliche Weise, ist der Familie Werneburg in die DNA geschrieben: Als Nachkomme eines Naturlyrikers und eines Naturmalers sowie Neffe eines Naturmuseums-Direktors...
[Book abstract] Das Vorlesungsmanuskript „Paleontologie von Ernst Haeckel“ datiert auf das Sommersemester 1866 und umfaßt 31 Doppelseiten. Es befindet sich als Nachlaß des ehemaligen Jenenser Studenten Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Miklucho-Maclay im Archiv der Russischen Geographischen Gesellschaft in St. Petersburg. Im vorliegenden Buch werden die Origi...
Das Vorlesungsmanuskript „Paleontologie von Ernst Haeckel“ datiert auf das Sommersemester 1866 und umfaßt 31 Doppelseiten. Es befindet sich als Nachlaß des ehemaligen Jenenser Studenten Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Miklucho-Maclay im Archiv der Russischen Geographischen Gesellschaft in St. Petersburg. Im vorliegenden Buch werden die Originalseiten und de...
Embryogenesis is the first step in the ontogenetic life journey of any individual and thus is a starting point for the natural selection that causes evolutionary change. There are slight variations in the timing of embryonic development, known as heterochronies, which could eventually lead to major differences in adult anatomy. To test this expecta...
Paläogeographische Karten mit Anzahl der Sammlungskonvolute für 13 Erdzeitalter vom Ediacarium bis zum Quartär
Im ersten Halbjahr 2021 fanden eine Schubladen-Inventarisierung und eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme der Paläontologischen Sammlung in Tübingen statt. Dafür wurde sechs Monate lang ein Sammlungsmanager als Unterstützung der Kustodie angestellt. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsgruppe Mikropaläontologie gelang es, im Team eine fundierte Basis für die...
Constrained & Directional Evolution Newsletter Vol. 5 No. S1 (2021), p. 1-8, cover image, https://www.constrained-evo.shigenobulab.org/docs/CDENewsVol5NoS1.pdf [access: 2024-03-01]. (Extended Abstract)
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The anatomical framework of the jaw has traditionally been thought to be highly conserved among vertebrates. However, here we show that the therian-unique face (muzzle) evolved via a drastic alteration of the common pattern of the tetrapod jaw. Through comparative morphological and developmental analyses, we demonstrated that the theri...
Im Jahr 1980 gestaltete der Bildende Künstler Walter Werneburg (1922-1999) ein ‚Triptychon mit Predella‘ – ein dreigeteiltes Bild mit Sockel – in der Art eines gotischen Flügelaltars. Der Sockel stellt die ‚Epoche der frühen Lebewesen‘, das Proterozoikum, dar, das sich über einen Zeitraum von 2,5 Milliarden bis 541 Millionen Jahren vor heute erstre...
Report on an exhibition of Paläontologische Sammlung Tübingen in 2002.
The morphology of the temporal region in the tetrapod skull traditionally has been a widely discussed feature of vertebrate anatomy. The evolution of different temporal openings in Amniota (mammals, birds, and reptiles), Lissamphibia (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians), and several extinct tetrapod groups has sparked debates on the phylogenetic, d...
