Farish Jenkins
American paleontologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farish Alston Jenkins (May 19, 1940 – November 11, 2012) was a professor at Harvard University who studied and taught paleontology. His discoveries included a transitional creature with characteristics of both fish and land animals — Tiktaalik roseae —and one of the earliest known frogs, Prosalirus bitis.[1][2][3][4]
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Farish Alston Jenkins | |
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Born | 19 May 1940 |
Died | 11 November 2012 (2012-11-12) (aged 72) |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Awards | Romer-Simpson Medal (2009) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Harvard University Columbia University |
Thesis | The Postcranial Skeleton of African Cynodonts and Problems in the Evolution of Mammalian Postcranial Anatomy (1969) |
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