Beverly Halstead
L. Beverly Halstead | |
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| Born | June 13, 1933 |
| Died | April 30, 1991 (aged 57) |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield (BS), University College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Research on Paleozoic fishes; evolution of teeth |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Palaeontology |
Lambert Beverly Halstead (13 June 1933 – 30 April 1991), who also went by Lambert Beverly Halstead Tarlo or just Beverly Halstead, was a British paleontologist and professor of Geology & Zoology and popularizer of science. He was noted for his candid theories of dinosaur sexual habits, research into plesiosaurs, and also for a prolonged assault on phylogenetic systematics (or "cladism", as he referred to it), in a series of letters and editorials to the journal Nature in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He was President of the Geologists' Association for 1990–91. He also was a co-host on the ITV series The Dinosaur Trail.