Hall, Brian -

Submitted by halifax on Mon, 2010/08/09 - 6:22pm
Personal Information
First Name: 
Brian
Last Name: 
Hall
Department / Program: 
Biology Department, Dalhousie University
University Affiliation: 
Dalhousie University
Phone: 
902-494-3522
Email Address: 
bkh@dal.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Biology
Specific Area of Research: 
The development and evolution of cartilage, bone and vertebrate skeletal systems, the rise of evolutionary embryology in England after 1859 (especially Francis Balfour); the history of concepts on homology (especially Richard Owen); and integration of development, evolution and palaeontology
Academics
Major Publications: 
Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1990; 2nd ed 1999, 3rd ed. in progress). Hall, B. K. (2005). Bones and Cartilage: Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology. 787 pp. Elsevier Academic Press, London. Hall, B. K., and Hallgrímsson, B. (2008). Strickberger’s Evolution. The Integration of Genes, Organisms and Populations. 4th Edition. 776 pp. Jones and Bartlett, Publishers, Sudbury, MA. (Chinese edition, 2009) Hall, B. K. (2009). The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution. xxii + 400pp. Springer, New York. Hall, B. K. (2010). Evolution; Principles and Processes. Xxii + 442 + 53 pp. Jones and Bartlett, Publishers, Sudbury, MA.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
FRS(C), Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Courses Taught: 
"Populations of neural crest cells and craniofacial development" with evolutionary implications, given at symposium at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, October 2000.