Lambert Beverly Halstead (13 June 1933 – 30 April 1991), who also went by Lambert Beverly Halstead Tarlo or just Beverly Halstead, was a British

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and professor of

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and popularizer of science. He was noted for his candid theories of dinosaur sexual habits, and also for a prolonged assault on

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(or "cladism", as he referred to it), in a series of letters and editorials to the journal

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in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was President of the

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for 1990–91.

References

* Republished in W.A.S. Sarjeant (ed.), Vertebrate fossils and the evolution of scientific concepts. Writings in tribute to Beverly Halstead. Reading, England: Gordon & Breach Publishers, 1995. * 1933 births 1991 deaths British palaeontologists Presidents of the Geologists' Association {{paleontologist-stub