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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Vertebrate paleontology

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Peter Dodson

Author abbrev. (zoology)
  
Dodson


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Institutions
  
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

Alma mater
  
University of Ottawa (BSc, Geology, 1968) University of Alberta (MSc, Geology/Paleontology, 1970) Yale University (PhD, Geology/Paleontology, 1974)

Known for
  
Important contributions to the study of vertebrate paleontology

Residence
  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Education
  
University of Alberta, Yale University, University of Ottawa

Books
  
The Dinosauria, The Horned Dinosaur, Giant Dinosaurs, Man and Animals: Living - W, Ceratopsia: A Natural History of

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Peter Dodson is an American paleontologist who has published many papers and written and collaborated on books about dinosaurs. An authority on Ceratopsians, he has also authored several papers and textbooks on hadrosaurs and sauropods, and is a co-editor of The Dinosauria, widely considered the definitive scholarly reference on dinosaurs. Dodson described Avaceratops in 1986; Suuwassea in 2004, and many others, while his students have named Paralititan and Auroraceratops. He has conducted field research in Canada, the United States, India, Madagascar, Egypt, Argentina, and China. A professor of vertebrate paleontology and of veterinary anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Dodson has also taught courses in geology, history, history and sociology of science, and religious studies. Dodson is also a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 2001, two former students named an ancient frog species, Nezpercius dodsoni, after him (as well as after the Native American Nez Perce people). Dodson has also been skeptical to the theory of a dinosaurian origin of birds, but more recently has come down on the side of this theory.

Contents

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Religious views

Describing himself as a "deeply committed Christian," Dodson subscribes to theistic evolution and has argued that there is no real conflict between religion and science, writing that: "I have found little if anything to support or necessitate the warlike antagonism between science and religion pictured by Dawkins and like-minded scientists, who are animated by motives other than pure, disinterested science." Dodson has written numerous essays on the topic of religious belief and science, and has served on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit New York City-based Metanexus Institute.

Books

  • Dodson, P. (1996). The Horned Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press:Princeton, New Jersey, p. 244. ISBN 0-691-02882-6.
  • Upchurch, P., Barrett, P.M. and Dodson, P. 2004. Sauropoda. In The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. D. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • References

    Peter Dodson Wikipedia