Young scholar tracked pre-Jurassic beasts to UChicago
Passion for fossils of mammalian ancestors leads to PhD’s prize-winning research.
Steve Koppes
Seeking the roots of primate personality
Biologist Dario Maestripieri interprets DNA, environmental clues to help explain behavior of monkeys and humans.
University of Chicago Magazine
Michael Knezovich
University breeds rare species of interdisciplinary scientist
Chicago academic ‘ecosystem’ fosters broad-based graduate training in evolutionary biology.
Steve Koppes
Neil Shubin: Tracing fins to limbs
Since making headlines two years ago with a surprising 375-million-year-old fossil, the evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin continues to unlock the secrets of life’s formerly blurry transition from sea to land.
Hannah Hayes