Eric J. Sargis
Professor of Anthropology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
and Forestry & Environmental Studies
Ph.D. City University of New York [CUNY], 2000
Office address:
10 Sachem Street, Room 208
Tel: (203) 432-6140
Fax: (203) 432-3669
Web: Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory
Dr. Sargis discusses primate origins on NOVA
Eric J. Sargis is a Professor of Anthropology, with secondary appointments in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is also Curator of Mammalogy and Vertebrate Paleontology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
His interests include the origin and early evolution of primates, and the functional morphology and systematics of treeshrews (Scandentia), plesiadapiforms (Primates), and Old World monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae). He recently published an edited book, Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. He has conducted fieldwork in Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Florida. He is also a Series Editor for the Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology book series.
Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay
Springer Press
co-edited with Dagosto, M.
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Yale University
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