Beverly Halstead

Lambert Beverly Halstead (13 June 1933 – 30 April 1991), who also went by Lambert Beverly Halstead Tarlo or just Beverly Halstead, was a British paleontologist and professor of Geology & Zoology and popularizer of science. He was noted for his candid theories of dinosaur sexual habits, research into plesiosaurs, and also for a prolonged assault on phylogenetic systematics (or "cladism", as he referred to it), in a series of letters and editorials to the journal Nature in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

He was President of the Geologists' Association for 1990–91. He also was a co-host on the ITV series The Dinosaur Trail.

References

• Sarjeant, William A. S. "Lambert Beverly Halstead (1933-1992): his life, his discoveries and his controversies". Modern Geology. 18 (Halstead Memorial Volume, 1): 5–59. 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.
• Sarjeant, William A. S. "Halstead [Tarlo], (Lambert) Beverly (1933–1991), palaeontologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49762. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)