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Yibo Zhou
PhD Candidate, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
I work on sexual selection in Mesozoic birds and non-avian dinosaurs, with additional interests in how early feather functions (display, insulation, and flight) evolved.
education
- 2023 - present. Ph.D. student, Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
- 2021 - 2023. Master degree candidate, Paleontology and Stratigraphy, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
- 2017 - 2021. Bachelor degree, Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
presentations
- 2024. Fossil evidence reveals sexual dimorphism in Anchiornis huxleyi. The 37th International Geological Congress (IGC), Busan, Korea.
- 2023. Effects of sample size on testing phenotypic polymorphism. 31st Annual Meeting of the Chinese Paleontological Society, Nanjing, China.
- 2022 - 2025. Oral and poster presentations at annual meetings of the Chinese Paleontological Society and related conferences.
extras
- 2025 - 2026. National Natural Science Foundation of China Basic Research Program for Young Students (PhD), CNY 300,000, Principal Investigator.
- 2024 - 2025. Jiangsu Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program, CNY 15,000, Principal Investigator.
publications
- 2025. Yibo Zhou; Xudong Hou; Yanhong Pan*. Estimating minimum sample size for detecting phenotypic dimorphism using computational simulations. Paleobiology. doi
- 2024. Yibo Zhou; Yanhong Pan*; Min Wang*; Xiaoli Wang; Xiaoting Zheng; Zhonghe Zhou*. Fossil evidence sheds light on sexual selection during the early evolution of birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi