Mark Norell

Person · Open Library

Born

1957

Died

2025

Works

17

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Edmonton

Active from

2015

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,835x

2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,051x

3. Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

   · 1995 · cited 40,205x

4. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,686x

5. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 31,405x

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Quotes

• “The more that we learn about these animals the more we find that there is basically no difference between birds and their closely related dinosaur ancestors like velociraptor. Both have wishbones, brooded their nests, possess hollow bones, and were covered in feathers. If animals like velociraptor were alive today our first impression would be that they were just very unusual looking birds.”
• “We have as much evidence that T. rex was feathered, at least during some stage of its life, as we do that australopithecines like Lucy had hair.”
• “Really the best way to understand anything about dinosaurs is by looking at living animals. You look at birds and then look at the closest living ancestor of birds, which is the crocodile. If you look at characteristics that birds and crocodiles have in common, the explanation is that the trait was in the common ancestor that birds and crocodiles had at one time.”
• “If you saw a baby tyrannosaur you would probably think it was a weird looking bird. A full grown one might have had feathers too, maybe not on its whole body though, maybe more of an ornamental display sort of feathers. So traits in the theropod dinosaurs were more birdlike than say, crocodiles.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Saint Paul

Place of death

New York

Occupation

geneticist

Educated at

Yale University

Employer

American Museum of Natural History

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Romer-Simpson Medal

Doctoral student

Stephen L. Brusatte

Field of work

Vertebrata

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