Elizabeth McGee-Bergerol

408-924-5277
elizabeth.mcgee@sjsu.edu
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• Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Brook, Anthropology, 1997. "Pattern and Process in North American Plesiadapiform and Early Euprimate Diversity."
• M.A. State University of New York, Stony Brook, Anthropology, 1993.
• M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Paleontology, 1989. "The Taphonomy and Paleobiology of Roehler’s Coryphodon Catastrophe Quarry, Washakie Basin, Wyoming."
• A.B. University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology, 1983.

Macroevolutionary patterns and processes in primate evolution, particularly the effects of climate and geography on taxonomic survivorship in primates; stable isotope methods in ecology and paleoecology, particularly within the context of studying environmental disturbance; primate conservation; taphonomy and sampling bias in the fossil record; computer-based paleodiversity models.

• McGee, E.M., & W.F. Turnbull. 2007. Coryphodon lobatus (Mammalia: Pantodonta) from Deardorff Quarry, Piceance Basin, Colorado .” In prep.
• McGee, E.M., W.F. Turnbull, & W. S. Simpson. 2007. Coryphodon lobatus (Mammalia: Pantodonta) from Deardorff Quarry, Piceance Basin, Colorado : Additional Evidence of a Coryphodon Paucispecific Death Assemblange.”
• McGee, E.M. & S.E. Vaughn. 2007. Biogeochemical effects of anthropogenic disturbance on Propithecus edwardsi (Primates: Indriidae) from Ranomafana National Park in southeastern Madagascar . American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 44: 168.
• McGee, E. and S.E. Vaughn. 2006. Stable isotope analysis: a technique for evaluating ecological change in disturbed habitats. International Journal of Primatology 27 (Supplement 1):499.
• Soto, J.G., Anand, S. and McGee, E. 2004. Plagiarism avoidance: an empirical study examining teaching strategies. Journal of College Science Teaching. 33:42-48.
• McGee, E.M. 2003. What is a Primate? American Biology Teacher 65:313-318.
• McGee, E.M. and S.E. Vaughn. 2003. Variations in stable isotope composition in Propithecus diadema edwardsi from disturbed and undisturbed rainforest habitats in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar . American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 36: 149-150.
• McGee, E.M. 2002. Intraspecific dental variability in cf. Coryphodon anthracoideus (Mammalia: Pantodonta) from Roehler’s Coryphodon Catastrophe Quarry, Washakie Basin, Wyoming . Rocky Mountain Geology 37:61-73,
• McGee, E.M., S.E. Vaughn, and P.C. Wright. 2002. Stable isotope composition in Propithecus diadema edwardsi from Talatakely and Vatoharanana in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar . American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 34:110.
• McGee, E.M. 2001. A mass death accumulation of Coryphodon anthracoideus (Pantodonta: Mammalia) from Roehler's Coryphodon Catastrophe Quarry (Lower Eocene, Wasatch Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming); pp. 317-333 in (G.G. Gunnell, ed.), Eocene Vertebrates: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats, Plenum Press, New York.
• McGee, E.M. and Wright, P.C. 2001. Stable isotope composition in Propithecus diadema edwardsi from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar . American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 32:106.
• McGee, E.M. 1999. An analysis of bone orientation at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry using vector analysis: a new spin on an old technique. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:62A.
• McGee, E.M. and P.L. Koch. 1997. A second look at the extinction of the plesiadapoid plesiadapiforms. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17:64A.
• McGee, E.M. and L.B. Martin. 1995. Chance and the taphonomy of the hominoid assemblage from the middle Miocene site at Pasalar, Turkey . Journal of Human Evolution 28:325-341.
• McGee, E.M. 1995. Evolutionary Equilibrium and the Clarkforkian/Wasatchian Boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:42A.
• McGee, E.M. 1994. Geography and the Evolution of Euprimates and Plesiadapiforms in the Western Interior of North America . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14:37A.
• McGee, E.M. 1994. Faunal turnover in plesiadapiforms and early euprimates from the Western Interior of North America. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 18:143-144.
• Sokal, R.R., G.M. Jacquez, N.L. Oden, CO DiGiovanni, A.B. Falsetti, E. McGee, and B.A. Thomson. 1993. Genetic relationships of European populations reflect their ethnohistorical affinities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 91:55-70.
• McGee, E.M. 1993. The taphonomy of Roehler's Coryphodon Catastrophe Quarry (Lower Eocene, Wasatch Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming ). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13:49A .
• McGee, E.M. 1991. Happenstance: a new branch of taphonomy? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11:46A.