Chicago bilogist biography
Chicago bilogist biography
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Neil Shubin
American paleontologist (born 1960)
Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer.
He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago along with being the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History.[3] He is best known for his co-discovery of Tiktaalik roseae with Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins.[4]
Biography
Raised in Overbrook Hills section of Lower Merion Township[5] (contiguous to City of Philadelphia) and a graduate of Lower Merion High School,[6] Shubin earned a A.B.
from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University in 1987.[7] He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley.[8]