Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology


Sergi LÓPEZ-TORRES, Ph.D.


Phylogeny and evolution of Euarchontoglires (Mammalia)


ResearchGate
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ORCID: 0000-0002-0046-1013








CURRICULUM VITAE



Personal data

Sergi López-Torres
Born in 1986, Tarragona, Spain

Academic degrees 
  • 2017 Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Toronto
  • 2010 M.Sc. in Primatology, University of Barcelona
  • 2009 Licenciatura in Organismal Biology, University of Barcelona
Awards and scholarships
  • 2019-2020 Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History
  • 2015-2017 University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Award
  • 2011-2015 University of Toronto Fellowship
  • 2014 Jackson School of Geosciences Student Member Travel Award
Field work/expeditions
  • 2012-2013 Wyoming (USA), Paleogene
  • 2011-2012 Montana (USA), Paleogene

Grants and international projects
  • 2019 Arthur James Boucot Research Grant
  • 2013-2014 Doris O. And Samuel P. Welles Research Fund
  • 2013 American Museum of Natural History’s Collections Study Grant
  • 2012 University of Toronto Department of Anthropology Pilot Research Travelling Grant
  • 2010-2011 University of Barcelona Departmental Collaboration Grant

Invited presentations

  • 2020. Beyond primate origins: Exploring new fossil evidence outside the primate tree. Misericordia University, Dallas, PA, USA.
  • 2017. The evolutionary success of the longest-lived group of fossil primates. Scientific Circle of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2016. Teeth, Bones, and Evolution. Ontario College of Arts and Design, Toronto, ON.
  • 2016. The Origin of Humans: New Fossil Discoveries. Summer Lecture Club, Guelph, ON.
  • 2014. Early primate evolution: the case of the Paromomyidae. University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA.

Teaching
  • 2016-2017 Human Origins: New Discoveries, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • 2015-2017 Introduction to Anthropology: Becoming Human, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • 2015-2016 Primate Evolution, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • 2014-2015 Primate Behaviour, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • 2014-2015 Topics in Emerging Scholarship in Evolutionary Anthropology: Primate Origins and Early Primate Adaptations, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

 

Publications


Scientific papers

Selig, K.R., López-Torres, S., Hartstone-Rose, A., Nash, L.T., Silcox, M.T. 2020. A novel method for assessing enamel thickness distribution in the anterior dentition as a signal for gouging and other extractive foraging behaviors in gummivorous mammals. Folia Primatologica, 91: 365-384. [text]

López-Torres, S., Bertrand, O.C., Lang, M.M., Silcox, M.T., Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2020. Cranial endocast of the stem lagomorph Megalagus and brain structure of basal Euarchontoglires. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287: 20200665. [text]

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2020. What we know (and don’t know) about the fossil records of lorisids (Ch. 3) In Nekaris, K.A.I., Burrows, A.M. (eds.) Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 33-46. [text]

López-Torres, S., Selig, K.R., Burrows, A.M., Silcox, M.T. 2020. The toothcomb of Karanisia clarki: Was this species an exudate-feeder? (Ch. 6) In Nekaris, K.A.I., Burrows, A.M. (eds.) Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 67-75. [text]

Burrows, A.M, Nash, L.T., Hartstone-Rose, A., Selig, K.R., Silcox, M.T., López-Torres, S. 2020. What role did gum-feeding play in the evolution of the lorises? (Ch. 12) In Nekaris, K.A.I., Burrows, A.M. (eds.) Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; pp. 153-161. [text]

Burrows, A.M., Nash, L.T., Hartstone-Rose, A., Silcox, M.T., López-Torres, S., Selig, K.R. 2020. Dental Signatures for exudativory in living Primates, with comparison to other gouging mammals. Anatomical Record, 303: 265-281. [text]

Selig, K.R., López-Torres, S., Sargis, E.J., Silcox, M.T. 2019. First 3D dental topographic analysis of the enamel-dentine junction in non-primate euarchontans: contribution of the enamel-dentine junction to molar morphology. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 26: 587-598. [text]

López-Torres, S. 2019. Primate evolution and the emergence of humans (Ch. 26). In Pough, F.H., Janis, C.M. (eds.) Vertebrate Life, 10th edition, Sinauer Associates/Oxford University Press, New York, NY; pp. 519-552. [text]

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T., Holroyd, P.A. 2018. New omomyoids (Euprimates, Mammalia) from the late Uintan of southern California and the question of the extinction of the Paromomyidae (Plesiadapiformes, Primates). Palaeontologia Electronica, 21.3.37A: 1-28. [text]

López-Torres, S., Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2018. A new Eocene anagalid (Mammalia: Euarchontoglires) from Mongolia and its implications for the group’s phylogeny and dispersal. Scientific Reports, 8: 13955. [text]

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2018. The European Paromomyidae (Primates, Mammalia): taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeographic implications. Journal of Paleontology, 92: 920-937. [text]

López-Torres, S., Selig, K.R., Prufrock, K.A., Lin, D., Silcox, M.T. 2018. Dental topographic analysis of paromomyid (Plesiadapiformes, Primates) cheek teeth: More than 15 million years of changing surfaces and shifting ecologies. Historical Biology 30: 76-88. [text]

Silcox, M.T., López-Torres, S. 2017. Major questions in the study of primate origins. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45: 113-137 [text]

Silcox, M.T., Bloch, J.I., Boyer, D.M., Chester, S.G.B., López-Torres, S. 2017. The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms. Evolutionary Anthropology 26: 74-94. [text]

López-Torres, S., Selig, K.R., Prufrock, K.A., Lin, D., Silcox, M.T. 2017. Dental topographic analysis of paromomyid (Plesiadapiformes, Primates) cheek teeth: More than 15 million years of changing surfaces and shifting ecologies. Historical Biology 30: 76-88. [text]

Prufrock, K.A., López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T., Boyer, D.M. 2016. Surfaces and spaces: trouble-shooting the study of dietary niche space overlap between North American stem primates and rodents. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 4: 024005. [text]

López-Torres, S., Schillaci, M.A., Silcox, M.T. 2015. Life history of the most complete fossil primate skeleton: exploring growth models for Darwinius. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150340. [text]

Marigó, J., Minwer-Barakat, R., Moyà-Solà, S., López-Torres, S. 2012. First record of Plesiadapiformes (Primates, Mammalia) from Spain. Journal of Human Evolution 62: 429-433. [text]


Conference presentations

López-Torres, S., Bhagat, R., Silcox, M.T., Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2019. First virtual reconstruction of the inner ear of a fossil rabbit: Locomotor behaviour and hearing sensitivity of Megalagus turgidus (early Oligocene of Nebraska). Poster presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Brisbane, QLD.

Lang, M.M., San Martin-Flores, G., Bertrand, O.C., Nagendran, L., López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2019. Endocranial shape variation within Euarchontoglires using 3D geometric morphometrics. Podium presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Brisbane, QLD.

López-Torres, S., Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2019. How are anagalids informative for the evolution of Euarchontoglires? Podium presentation, International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Burrows, A.M., Hartstone-Rose, A., Nash, L.T., Silcox, M.T., Selig, K.R., López-Torres, S. 2019. Disappearing enamel and molars: The evolution of a dietary niche focused on gums. Poster presentation, American Association of Anatomists, Orlando, FL.

Burrows, A.M., Hartstone-Rose, A., Nash, L.T., Silcox, M.T., Selig, K.R., López-Torres, S. 2019. The uncertainty of the potto an exudate-feeding in Lorisidae. Podium presentation, American Association of Biological Anthropology, Cleveland, OH.

López-Torres, S., Bertrand, O.C., Lang, M.M., Silcox, M.T., Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2019. First virtual endocast of a fossil rabbit: Megalagus turgidus (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) and brain evolution in euarchontoglirans. Virtual slide presentation, 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress, hosted by the University of Valencia.

López-Torres, S., Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2018. The phylogenetic position of the Anagalidae within Euarchontoglires and its implications for the evolution of Glires and Euarchonta. Podium presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Albuquerque, NM.

Selig, K.R., López-Torres, S., Hartstone-Rose, A., Burrows, A.M., Silcox, M.T. 2018. Differential enamel thickness in the anterior dentition as a signal for gouging behavior. Poster presentation, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, TX.

Nagendran, L., San Martin-Flores, G, Atell, M.G.I., Bertrand, O.C., Bhagat, R., Lang, M.M., López-Torres, S., Selig, K.R., Ward, D.L., Viola, T.B., Silcox, M.T. 2018. New perspectives on cranial form in Euarchontoglires: a geometric morphometric study of primates and their kin. Poster presentation, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, TX.

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2017. The success of paromomyids: the longest-lived, northernmost group of fossil primates. Podium presentation, Polish Society for Human and Evolution, Studies. Krakow, Poland

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2017. The phylogenetic relationships of the Paromomyidae (Primates, Mammalia). Podium presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, AB.

López-Torres, S., Prufrock, K.A., Selig, K.R., Silcox, M.T. 2016. Dental topographic analysis of paromomyid (Plesiadapiformes, Primates) cheek teeth: More than 15 million years of changing surfaces and shifting ecologies. Podium presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Salt Lake City, UT.

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2016. Paromomyids: early primates who like the cold? Podium presentation, Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mississauga, ON.

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T., Holroyd, P.A. 2015. New omomyoid (Euprimates, Mammalia) material from the Duchesnean of Southern California and the extinction of the Paromomyidae (Plesiadapiformes, Primates). Podium presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX.

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2014. The impact of fossils on likelihood estimates of the biogeographic origins of major primate clades. Poster presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin, Germany.

López-Torres, S. 2014. A new growth model for Darwinius, the most complete fossil primate skeleton. Robert Lynn Carroll Prize podium presentation, Canadian Paleontoloty Conference/Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Montréal, QC.

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships of the European Paromomyidae (Primates, Mammalia) and their biogeographic implications. Poster presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Los Angeles, CA.

Silcox, M.T., López-Torres, S., Bloch, J.I., Boyer, D.M. 2013. Understanding early brain evolution in Primates. Podium presentation, International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona, Spain.

López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T., Bloch, J.I. 2012. Patters of encephalization in the early evolution of Primates. Poster presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Raleigh, NC.

López-Torres, S. 2012. New plesiadapiform material from Spain and its relationship to the European Paromomyidae (Mammalia, Primates). Podium presentation, Canadian Paleontology Conference, Toronto, ON.

Contact



Sergi López-Torres

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergi_Lopez-Torres
ORCID: 0000-0002-0046-1013

Institute of Paleobiology PAS
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PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND

e-mail:slopeztorres@twarda.pan.pl