Gene Hunt

• M.S., University of Chicago
• Ph.D., University of Chicago
• B.S., Duke University

Deep-sea Ostracoda; macroevolution; quantitative approaches in paleontology.

Journal Article

• Hunt, Gene, Voje, Kjetil Lysne, and Liow, Lee Hsiang. 2025. "Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence." Paleobiology, https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.31.
• Tsuboi, Masahito, Sztepanacz, Jacqueline, De Lisle, Stephen, Voje, Kjetil L., Grabowski, Mark, Hopkins, Melanie J., Porto, Arthur, Balk, Meghan, Pontarp, Mikael, Rossoni, Daniela, Hildesheim, Laura S., Horta-Lacueva, Quentin, Hohmann, Niklas, Holstad, Agnes, Lürig, Moritz, Milocco, Lisandro, Nilén, Sofie, Passarotto, Arianna, Svensson, Erik I., Villegas, Cristina, Winslott, Erica, Liow, Lee Hsiang, Hunt, Gene, Love, Alan C., and Houle, David. 2024. "The Paradox of Predictability Provides a Bridge Between Micro- and Macroevolution." Journal of Evolutionary Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae103.
• Evans, Scott D., Hunt, Gene, Gehling, James G., Sperling, Erik A., and Droser, Mary L. 2023. "Species of Dickinsonia Sprigg from the Ediacaran of South Australia." Palaeontology, 66, (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12635.
• Uyeda, Josef, Hunt, Gene, and Liow, Lee Hsiang. 2023. "Cross-disciplinary information for understanding macroevolution." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38, (3) 250–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.013.
• Huang, Huai-Hsuan May, Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Okahashi, Hisayo, and Hunt, Gene. 2022. "Poseidonamicus (Ostracoda) from the North Atlantic Ocean." Micropaleontology, 68, (3) 257–271. https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.68.3.05.
• Samuels-Fair, Maya, Martins, Maria João Fernandes, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Hunt, Gene. 2022. "Temporal shifts in ostracode sexual dimorphism from the Late Cretaceous to the late Eocene of the US Coastal Plain." Marine Micropaleontology, 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101959.
• Puckett, Terry Markham and Hunt, Gene. 2022. "New Taxa of Marine Ostracods (Anticytherideinae, n. subfam.) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, U. S. Gulf Coastal Plain." Micropaleontology, 68, (5) 433–504. https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.68.5.01.
• Love, Alan C., Grabowski, Mark, Houle, David, Porto, Arthur, Tsuboi, Masahito, Hunt, Gene, Liow, Lee Hsiang, and Voje, Kjetil L. 2021. "Evolvability in the fossil record." Paleobiology, https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.36.
• Chiu, Wing-Tung Ruby, Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Hunt, Gene, Gemery, Laura, and Wei, Chih-Lin. 2020. "Marine latitudinal diversity gradients, niche conservatism and out of the tropics and Arctic: Climatic sensitivity of small organisms." Journal of Biogeography, 47, (4) 817–828. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13793.
• Martins, Maria João Fernandes, Hunt, Gene, Thompson, Carmi Milagros, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Puckett, T. M. 2020. "Shifts in sexual dimorphism across a mass extinction in ostracods: implications for sexual selection as a factor in extinction risk." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287, (1933) Article 20200730. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0730.
• Evangelista Nogueira, Anna Andressa, Feijo Ramos, Maria Ines, and Hunt, Gene. 2019. "Taxonomy of Ostracods from the Pirabas Formation (Upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene), Eastern Amazonia (Para State, Brazil)." Zootaxa, 4573, (1) 1–+. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4573.1.1.
• Benson, Roger B. J., Hunt, Gene, Carrano, Matthew T., and Campione, Nicolas. 2018. "Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution." Palaeontology, 61, (1) 13–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12329.
• Collins, K. S., Edie, S. M., Hunt, Gene, Roy, K., and Jablonski, D. 2018. "Extinction risk in extant marine species integrating palaeontological and biodistributional data." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, (1887) 285–285. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1698.
• Martins, Maria Joao Fernandes, Puckett, T. Markham, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Hunt, Gene. 2018. "High male sexual investment as a driver of extinction in fossil ostracods." Nature, 556, (7701) 366–+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0020-7.
• Sibert, Elizabeth, Friedman, Matt, Hull, Pincelli, Hunt, Gene, and Norris, Richard. 2018. "Two pulses of morphological diversification in Pacific pelagic fishes following the Cretaceous - Palaeogene mass extinction." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, (1888) 20181194–20181194. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1194.
• Fernandes Martins, Maria João, Hunt, Gene, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., and Horne, David J. 2017. "Correlation between investment in sexual traits and valve sexual dimorphism in Cyprideis species (Ostracoda)." PloS One, 12, (7) 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177791.
• Hunt, Gene. 2017. "Species Concepts in the Rocks." Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-017-9393-x.
• Hunt, Gene, Martins, M. Joao Fernandes, Puckett, T. Markham, Lockwood, Rowan, Swaddle, John P., Hall, Christine M. S., and Stedman, James. 2017. "Sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in cytheroidean ostracodes from the Late Cretaceous of the US Coastal Plain." Paleobiology, 43, (4) 620–641. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2017.19.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, and Okahashi, Hisayo. 2017. "Quaternary deep-sea ostracods from the north-western Pacific Ocean: global biogeography and Drake-Passage, Tethyan, Central American and Arctic pathways." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17, (2) 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1393019.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Iwatani, Hokuto, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, Kase, Tomoki, Hayashi, Hiroki, Irizuki, Toshiaki, Aguilar, Yolanda M., Fernando, Allan Gil S., and Renema, Willem. 2017. "Cenozoic dynamics of shallow-marine biodiversity in the Western Pacific." Journal of Biogeography, 44, (3) 567–578. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12880.
• Bush, Andrew M., Hunt, Gene, and Bambach, Richard K. 2016. "Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (49) 14073–14078. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610726113.
• Hunt, Gene and Slater, Graham J. 2016. "Integrating Paleontological and Phylogenetic Approaches to Macroevolution." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 47, (1) 189–213. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054207.
• Hunt, Gene, Hopkins, Melanie J., and Lidgard, Scott. 2015. "Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, (16) 4885–4890. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403662111.
• Hunt, Gene and Rabosky, Daniel L. 2014. "Phenotypic Evolution in Fossil Species: Pattern and Process." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 42, (1) 421–441. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152524.
• Rivadeneira, Marcelo M., Hunt, Gene, and Roy, Kaustuv. 2014. "The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: Reply." Ecology, 95, (1) 238–239. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1088.1.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Okahashi, Hisayo, Cronin, Thomas M., Rasmussen, Tine L., and Hunt, Gene. 2014. "Response of deep-sea biodiversity to abrupt deglacial and Holocene climate changes in the North Atlantic Ocean." Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, (9) 957–967. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12178.
• Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis." Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, (8) 714–723. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12085.
• Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Presentation of the 2012 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Gene Hunt Response." Journal of Paleontology, 87, (3) 532–533. https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360-87.3.530.
• Van Bocxlaer, Bert and Hunt, Gene. 2013. "Morphological stasis in an ongoing gastropod radiation from Lake Malawi." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, (34) 13892–13897. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308588110.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandão, Simone N. 2013. "The 'Oxycythereis' problem: taxonomy and palaeobiogeography of deep-sea ostracod genera Pennyella and Rugocythereis." Palaeontology, 56, (5) 1045–1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12035.
• Fusco, Giuseppe, Garland, Theodore, Jr., Hunt, Gene, and Hughes, Nigel C. 2012. "Developmental trait evolution in trilobites." Evolution, 66, (2) 314–329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01447.x.
• Hunt, Gene. 2012. "Measuring rates of phenotypic evolution and the inseparability of tempo and mode." Paleobiology, 38, (3) 351–373. https://doi.org/10.1666/11047.1.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Breitburg, Denise L., Tsujimoto, Akira, and Katsuki, Kota. 2012. "Human-induced marine ecological degradation: micropaleontological perspectives." Ecology and Evolution, 2, (12) 3242–3268. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.425.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, T. M., Hokanishi, N., Kawahata, H., Tsujimoto, A., and Ishitake, M. 2012. "Climatic forcing of Quaternary deep-sea benthic communities in the North Pacific Ocean." Paleobiology, 38, (1) 162–179. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c1q30.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Dowsett, Harry J., Robinson, Marci M., and Stoll, Danielle K. 2012. "Latitudinal species diversity gradient of marine zooplankton for the last three million years." Ecology Letters, 15, (10) 1174–1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01828.x.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, van Dijken, Gert, Arrigo, Kevin R., Cronin, Thomas M., and Wollenburg, Jutta E. 2012. "Patterns and controlling factors of species diversity in the Arctic Ocean." Journal of Biogeography, 39, (11) 2081–2088. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02758.x.
• Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L., and DiMichele, William A. 2011. "Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction." Paleobiology, 37, (1) 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1666/09078.1.
• Kolbe, Sarah E., Lockwood, Rowan, and Hunt, Gene. 2011. "Does morphological variation buffer against extinction? A test using veneroid bivalves from the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida." Paleobiology, 37, (3) 355–368. https://doi.org/10.1666/09073.1.
• Liow, Lee Hsiang, Simpson, Carl, Bouchard, Frédéric, Damuth, John, Hallgrimsson, Benedikt, Hunt, Gene, McShea, Dan,W., Powell, Jeffrey,R., Stenseth, Nils,C., Stoller, Melissa,K., and Wagner, Gunter. 2011. "Pioneering paradigms and magnificent manifestos—Leigh Van Valen's priceless contributions to evolutionary biology." Evolution, 65, (4) 917–922. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01242.x.
• Geary, Dana H., Hunt, Gene, Magyar, Imre, and Schreiber, Holly. 2010. "The paradox of gradualism: phyletic evolution in two lineages of lymnocardiid bivalves (Lake Pannon, central Europe)." Paleobiology, 36, (4) 592–614. https://doi.org/10.1666/08065.1.
• Hunt, Gene. 2010. "Evolution in Fossil Lineages: Paleontology and The Origin of Species." American Naturalist, 176, (Suppl 1) S61–S76. https://doi.org/10.1086/657057.
• Hunt, Gene, Wicaksono, Satrio A., Brown, Julia E., and MacLeod, Kenneth G. 2010. "Climate-driven body-size trends in the ostracod fauna of the deep Indian Ocean." Palaeontology, 53, (6) 1255–1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01007.x.
• Hunt, Gene and Yasuhara, Moriaki. 2010. "A fossil record of developmental events: variation and evolution in epidermal cell divisions in ostracodes." Evolution & Development, 12, (6) 635–646. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00448.x.
• Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios, 24, (1-2) 1–4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01.
• Rivadeneira, Marcelo M., Hunt, Gene, and Roy, K. 2009. "The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: an evaluation of different methods." Ecology, 90, (5) 1291–1300. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0316.1.
• Roy, Kaustuv, Hunt, Gene, and Jablonski, David. 2009. "Phylogenetic Conservatism of Extinctions in Marine Bivalves." Science, 325, (5941) 733–737. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173073.
• Roy, Kaustuv, Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Krug, Andrew Z., and Valentine, James W. 2009. "A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, (1661) 1485–1493.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Cronin, Thomas M., Hunt, Gene, and Hodell, David A. 2009. "Deep-Sea Ostracods from the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean during the Last 370,000 Years." Journal of Paleontology, 83, (6) 914–930. https://doi.org/10.1666/08-149.1.
• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, Thomas M., and Okahashi, H. 2009. "Temporal latitudinal-gradient dynamics and tropical instability of deep-sea species diversity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (51) 21717–21720. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910935106.
• Hunt, Gene. 2008. "Gradual or pulsed evolution: when should punctuational explanations be preferred?" Paleobiology, 34, (3) 360–377. https://doi.org/10.1666/07073.1.
• Hunt, Gene, Bell, M. A., and Travis, M. P. 2008. "Evolution toward a new adaptive optimum: Phenotypic evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage." Evolution, 62, (3) 700–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00310.x.
• Frame, Kristin, Hunt, Gene, and Roy, Kaustuv. 2007. "Intertidal meiofaunal biodiversity with respect to different algal habitats: a test using phytal ostracodes from Southern California." Hydrobiologia, 586 331–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0707-5.
• Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Evolutionary divergence in directions of high phenotypic variance in the ostracode genus Poseidonamicus." Evolution, 61 1560–1576.
• Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Morphology, ontogeny, and phylogenetics of the genus Poseidonamicus (Ostracoda: Thaerocytherinae)." Journal of Paleontology, 81 607–631.
• Hunt, Gene. 2007. "Perspective: Variation and Early Evolution." Science, 317 459–460.
• Hunt, Gene. 2007. "The relative importance of directional change, random walks, and stasis in the evolution of fossil lineages." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, (47) 18404–18408. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704088104.
• Hunt, Gene, Park, L. E., and Labarbera, M. 2007. "A Novel Crustacean Swimming Stroke: Coordinated Four-Paddled Locomotion in the Cypridoidean Ostracode Cypridopsis vidua (Muller)." Biological Bulletin, 212 67–73.
• Hunt, Gene. 2006. "Fitting and comparing models of phyletic evolution:random walks and beyond." Paleobiology, 32, (4) 578–601. https://doi.org/10.1666/05070.1.
• Hunt, Gene and Roy, K. 2006. "Climate change, body size evolution, and Cope's Rule in deep-sea ostracodes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, (5) 1347–1352. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510550103.
• Jablonski, David and Hunt, Gene. 2006. "Larval Ecology, Geographic Range, and Species Survivorship in Cretaceous Mollusks: Organismic versus Species-Level Explanations." American Naturalist, 168, (4) 556–564. https://doi.org/10.1086/507994.
• Hunt, Gene, Cronin, Thomas M., and Roy, K. 2005. "Species-energy relationship in the deep sea: a test using the Quaternary fossil record." Ecology Letters, 8 739–747.
• Hunt, Gene, Roy, K., and Jablonski, David. 2005. "Species-level heritability reaffirmed: a comment on "On the heritability of geographic range sizes"." American Naturalist, 166 129–135.
• Hunt, Gene. 2004. "Phenotypic variance inflation in fossil samples: an empirical assessment." Paleobiology, 30, (4) 487–506.
• Hunt, Gene. 2004. "Phenotypic variation in fossil samples: modeling the consequences of time-averaging." Paleobiology, 30, (3) 426–443.
• Hunt, Gene and Chapman, R. E. 2001. "Evaluating hypotheses of instar-grouping in arthropods: a maximum likelihood approach." Paleobiology, 27, (3) 466–484.
• Perich, M. J., Strickman, D., Wirtz, R. A., Stockwell, S. A., Glick, J. I., Burge, R., Hunt, Gene, and Lawyer, P. G. 1995. "Field evaluation of four repellents against Leptoconops americanus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) biting midges." Journal of Medical Entomology, 32 306–309.

Book

• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandao, Simone N. 2015. Taxonomy of Deep-sea Trachyleberidid, Thaerocytherid, and Hemicytherid Genera (Ostracoda). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 96. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.96.

Dataset

• Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Okahashi, Hisayo, and Brandão, Simone N. 2015. [Dataset] Data from: Taxonomy of deep-sea trachyleberidid, thaerocytherid, and hemicytherid genera (Ostracoda) Action Action. [tif] Distributed by Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rd234.

Book Chapter

• Hunt, Gene. 2014. "Macroevolutionary trends." In The Princeton Guide to Evolution. Losos, Jonathan, editor. 573–578. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Hunt, Gene and Carrano, Matthew T. 2010. "Models and methods for analyzing phenotypic evolution in lineages and clades." In Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology. Alroy, John and Hunt, Gene, editors. 245–269. New Haven, CT: The Paleontological Society.
• Hunt, Gene. 2008. "Evolutionary patterns within fossil lineages: model-based assessment of modes, rates, punctuations and process." In From Evolution to Geobiology: Research Questions Driving Paleontology at the Start of a New Century. Bambach, Richard K. and Kelley, P. H., editors. 117–131. The Paleontological Society.