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12-21-2017, 06:13 PM( This post was last modified: 12-21-2017, 07:03 PM by peter )
GENNADY F. BARYSHNIKOV I
a - Introduction
In October, I read an article about bones of big cats found in three caves in the Russian Far East: 'Late Pleistocene Felidae Remains (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Geographical Society Cave in the Russian Far East'. The article was published in 'Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, Vol. 320, No. 1, 2016.
As it was both informative and interesting, I decided for a summary. The summary will be discussed in the next post. In this post, you'll find a bit more about the writer.
b - Career
I found this on the internet (last modified: 04-09-2017):
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c - Conclusions
Judging from the length of the list of publications, Baryshnikov has been very productive. The words that stuck are: Pleistocene cave bears, Pleistocene Felidae, Pleistocene Canidae and Pleistocene Mustelidae. He also wrote articles about the modern polar bear, the saiga antilope, the European bison and the red squirrel.
If we add his thesis (1974) and the two dissertations (1980 and 2004), we can conclude that he is a specialist on Pleistocene landscapes and Pleistocene mammals.
His main interests are systematics, phylogeny and morphology of mammals (and Carnivora in particular) and the fauna and taphonomy of Paleolithic sites (the Caucasus in particular).