Joel Cracraft

Joel Cracraft
Born (1942-07-31) July 31, 1942 (age 82)[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Oklahoma, B.S., 1964
Louisiana State University, M.S., 1966
Columbia University Ph.D. (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Taxonomy
Thesis Functional Morphology of Locomotion in Birds  (1969)

Joel Lester Cracraft (born July 31, 1942), is an American paleontologist and ornithologist.[2] He received a PhD in 1969 from Columbia University (Functional Morphology of Locomotion in Birds).[2]

His research interests include: theory and methods of comparative biology, evolutionary theory, biological diversification, systematics, the evolution of morphological systems, historical biogeography, molecular systematics and evolution.[1]

From 1970 he has been a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; from 1970 to 1992, full professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; from 1993 to 1994, acting director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History; from 1992, adjunct professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; from 1997 adjunct professor at Columbia University; from 1992 curator at American Museum of Natural History; and from 2002 Lamont Curator of Birds at American Museum of Natural History.[1]

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  2. ^ a b "Joel L. Cracraft". AMNH. Retrieved November 5, 2019.