Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CUNY, and Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021 USA
Fred Szalay tries to combine, each year, some fieldwork with his primary focus on mammalian systematics and evolutionary theory. These interests center on the connections between macroevolutionary patterns and phylogeny estimation. He is especially concerned with making systematists aware of the connections between a fully functional morphological analysis of fossil and extant mammals, the solid Darwinian foundations of evolutionary theory, and (Darwinian) phylogenetic analysis. Current specimen related work involves marsupial skeletal evolution, marsupial phylogeny, carpal evolution in the Mammalia, and the osteology of some Mesozoic mammals.
Photo from fieldwork July 2000. International Paleontological Expedition to the Salla beds of Bolivia, nestled within the high Andes, with Fred Szalay [l.] and CUNY graduate students, and colleagues from Jersey City College and the University of Tucuman, Argentina. The species sought after in these Oligocene age beds were endemic South American ungulates, primates and marsupials.
