David Pilbeam (born 21 November 1940 in Brighton, Sussex, England)[1] is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University[2] and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
[a][o] In the 1970s, he was a co-discoverer, in the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan, of a nearly complete skull subsequently described as belonging to Sivapithecus indicus, an extinct Late Miocene great ape, on which he published several papers.
He oversaw the continuing process of redesigning the undergraduate curriculum, as well as a large increase in financial aid to students and the planning of a housing renewal project.
Zollikofer & Patrick Vignaud (7 April 2005), "New material of the earliest hominid from the upper Miocene of Chad" (PDF), Nature, 434 (7034): 752–755, Bibcode:2005Natur.434..752B, doi:10.1038/nature03392, PMID 15815627, S2CID 3726177, retrieved 1 May 2010 l. ^ Christof P.E.
Zollikofer; Marcia S. Ponce de Leon; Daniel E. Lieberman; Franck Guy; David Pilbeam; Andossa Likius; Hassane, T. Mackaye; Patrick Vignaud & Michel Brunet (7 April 2005), "Virtual cranial reconstruction Sahelanthropus tchadensis" (PDF), Nature, 434 (7034): 755–759, Bibcode:2005Natur.434..755Z, doi:10.1038/nature03397, PMID 15815628, S2CID 4362525, retrieved 1 May 2010 m. ^ Franck Guy; Daniel E. Lieberman; David Pilbeam; Marcia S. Ponce de Leon; Andossa Likius, Hassane; T. Mackaye; Patrick Vignaud; Christof P.E.
Zollikofer & Michel Brunet (27 December 2005), "Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene hominid from Chad) cranium", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102 (52): 18836–18841, Bibcode:2005PNAS..10218836G, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509564102, PMC 1323204, PMID 16380424 PDF fulltext Supporting Tables n. ^ Guy F, Lieberman D, Pilbeam D, Ponde de Leon M, Likius A, Mackaye H, Vignaud P, Zollikofer C, Brunet M (March 2006), "Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis cranium: oldest representing of the human family]", Médecine/Sciences, 22 (3): 250–1, doi:10.1051/medsci/2006223250, PMID 16527204 Pilbeam also authored, co-authored, edited and contributed to (e.g. in forewords) books, with some key publications below.