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Education
PhD in Anatomy - Howard University
BS in Paleontology - Beijing University
Field
Mammalian Evolution and Human Anatomy
Interests
My research has three major themes: 1) the origins and early evolution of mammals, 2) biodiversity of mammals through time, and 3) Neogene climate changes and mammalian evolutionary response.
I have published over 50 papers in professional journals, including Nature, Geology and Evolution. Over the past 10 years I have discovered eight new mammalian species (e.g. Ambolestes, Shenshou, and Anebodon). These groundbreaking discoveries regularly appear in the media Post-Gazette and National Geographic. Since 2018, I have been a joint professor in the Centre for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, Yunnan University.
Selected Publications
Bi, S., Zheng, X., Wang, X., Cignetti, N. E., Yang, S., & Wible, J. R. (2018). An Early Cretaceous eutherian and the placental-marsupial dichotomy. Nature, 558(7710), 390-395.
Bi, S., Zheng, X., Meng, J., Wang, X., Robison, N., & Davis, B. (2016). A new symmetrodont mammal (Trechnotheria: Zhangheotheriidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China and trechnotherian character evolution. Scientific reports 6, doi:10.1038/srep26668
Bi, S., Jin, X., Li, S., & Du, T. (2015). A new Cretaceous Metatherian mammal from Henan, China. PeerJ, 3, e896.
Bi, S., Wang, Y., Guan, J., Sheng, X., & Meng, J. (2014). Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals. Nature 514(7524), 579-584.
Zheng, X., Bi, S., Wang, X., & Meng, J. (2013). A new arboreal haramiyid shows the diversity of crown mammals in the Jurassic period. Nature, 500(7461), 199-202.
Bi, S., Meng, J., McLean, S., Wu, W., Ni, X., & Ye, J. (2013). A New Genus of Aplodontid Rodent (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Oligocene of Northern Junggar Basin, China. PloS one, 8(1), e52625.