Tag: Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.

  • Nation & World

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72

    Professor Jenkins completed groundbreaking work on gait, discovered a missing link in the evolution from fish to tetrapod, and chronicled an evolutionary step that helped to explain the origin of mammals.

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  • Nation & World

    Boning up on frogs’ defenses

    Harvard biologists have determined that some African frogs carry concealed weapons: when threatened, these species puncture their own skin with sharp bones in their toes, using the bones as claws…

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  • Nation & World

    Finding a fossilized needle in an Arctic haystack

    The first season searching Arctic Canada for a fossil that would illuminate how our ancestors first crawled onto land proved Harvard Professor Farish Jenkins’ explorer’s maxim: Never go any place…

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  • Nation & World

    Missing link crawls out of muck

    Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years…

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