Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert (also known as Tom Gilbert, and publishing as MTP Gilbert) is an evolutionary biologist. He received a BA at Oriel College

Oriel College

Oriel College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford...

, Oxford University, and a D.Phil ) in the Zoology Dept of New College

New College, Oxford

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 under Alan Cooper. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Arizona. In 2005, he became an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen, where he is currently Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

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's Natural History Museum, and a member of the Centre for Geogenetics at Copenhagen University. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Biology, University of York, and an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. He has received several prestigious awards.

He is notable for his work on ancient DNA

Ancient DNA

Ancient DNA is DNA isolated from ancient specimens. It can be also loosely described as any DNA recovered from biological samples that have not been preserved specifically for later DNA analyses...

, having several publications in journals such as Science

Science

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, Nature

Nature

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 and PNAS. He was involved in the sequencing of DNA from Pre-clovis

Clovis culture

The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that first appears 11,500 RCYBP , at the end of the last glacial period, characterized by the manufacture of "Clovis points" and distinctive bone and ivory tools...

 native american

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

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Publications

He is the author of 84 papers in peer-reviewed journals, The most cited is "Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison" , in Science 306 (5701), pp. 1561–1565 (2004), with 109 citations according to Scopus

Scopus

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by March, 2009.