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K. Christopher Beard

Affiliation : University of Kansas

• 7Publications (affiliation in the United States)
• 237Total publications
• 5186Citations
• 42h-index

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Research profile

K. Christopher Beard has 7 indexed publications (2010–2026). Their work appears mainly in “Journal of Human Evolution”, “Journal of African Earth Sciences” and “Frontiers in Earth Science”. Their most cited article, “Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids” (2010), has been cited 136 times. Their work is co-authored with at least 2 researchers.

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Research areas

• Evolution and Paleontology Studies
• Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
• Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
• Primate Behavior and Ecology
• Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Publications (7)

• New late middle Eocene anthropoids from Dur At-Talah, Libya: Implications for early primate dispersal into Afro-Arabia
  2026 · Journal of Human Evolution
• A new parapithecine (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the early Oligocene of Libya supports parallel evolution of large body size among parapithecids
  2021 · Journal of Human Evolution · cited 4 times
• A new carnivoraform from the early Oligocene of Libya: Oldest known record of Carnivoramorpha in Africa
  2020 · Journal of African Earth Sciences · cited 4 times
• New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents
  2015 · Frontiers in Earth Science · cited 27 times
• A new species of Apidium (Anthropoidea, Parapithecidae) from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: First record of Oligocene primates from Libya
  2015 · Journal of Human Evolution · cited 14 times
• A new early Oligocene mammal fauna from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: Biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications
  2015 · Journal of African Earth Sciences · cited 11 times
• Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids
  2010 · Nature · cited 136 times

Publication venues

• Journal of Human Evolution × 3
• Journal of African Earth Sciences × 2
• Frontiers in Earth Science × 1
• Nature × 1

Publications per year

• 20261
• 20211
• 20201
• 20153
• 20101

Co-authors

• Pauline M. C. Coster
• Spencer G. Mattingly

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