Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
02138
USA
Farish
Jenkins is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, and
also serves as Professor of Anatomy in Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences
and Technology (Harvard Medical School) and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
and Mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
His research interests are broadly in the area of vertebrate evolution, and
focus on diverse structural and functional complexes during major evolutionary
transitions. He has employed experimental studies of living animals to gain
insights into the fossil record, and was the first to employ cineradiography to
study animal locomotion. Jenkins has maintained an active field program in
vertebrate paleontology, principally in Mesozoic deposits. Expeditions to the
Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland have uncovered a diverse Late Triassic
fauna of fish, termnospondyls, dinosaurs, aetosaurs, phytosaurs, pterosaurs, and
mammals.