Website : P. David Polly at Indiana University
David Polly is a vertebrate paleontologist at Indiana University-Bloomington and a Research Associate at the Field Museum in Chicago. His current research is on trait-based community dynamics in vertebrates, especially the role of changing Cenozoic climates and environments to the composition of communities and the evolution of traits. He is also interested in phylogenetics, phylogeography, and genetics of vertebrates.
He is the author of Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae and a contributor of numerous articles and essays to such publications as Nature.