Mike Keesey

T. Michael Keesey is a software engineer by trade, but has also worked over the years in illustration and evolutionary biology. He has even worked as a paleo-technician, digging up Late Jurassic dinosaur fossils for the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.

Some of Keesey’s other projects include:

• PhyloPic, an open database with thousands of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms.
• Research papers:
  • Hone, Keesey, Pisani & Purvis 2005. Macroevolutionary trends in the Dinosauria: Cope’s rule. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18(3):587–595.
  • Keesey 2007. A mathematical approach to defining clade names, with potential applications to computer storage and processing. Zoologica Scripta 36(6):607–621.
  • Iriarte, Ziegler, Outram, Robinson, Roberts, Aceituno, Morcote-Ríos & Keesey 2022. Ice Age megafauna rock art in the Colombian Amazon? Philosophical Transcations of the Royal Society B 377(1849):1–11.
• Three Histories of the Human Body, a chapter about human evolution in the anti-creationism book God’s Word or Human Reason?: An Inside Perspective on Creationism.

Keesey resides in Los Angeles with his partner, Renie, his child, Lucy, and his cat, Scout.