Benedikt Hallgrimsson
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MA, 1990, PhD, 1995, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Cumming School of Medicine
Benedikt Hallgrimsson | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, 1989, Anthropology, University of Alberta MA, 1990, PhD, 1995, Anthropology, University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Fluctuating asymmetry and maturational spans in mammals: implications for the evolution of prolonged development in primates (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Puerto Rico Cumming School of Medicine |
Benedikt Hallgrimsson FCAHS (born in 1967) is an Icelandic-Canadian biological anthropologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a Full Professor at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine and scientific director of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. Hallgrimsson studies birth defects and the developmental genetics of anatomical variation.
Hallgrimsson was born in 1967[1] in Reykjavík, Iceland.[2] After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of Alberta in 1989, he enrolled at the University of Chicago for his Master's degree and PhD.[3] As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Hallgrimsson also accepted a Graduate Student Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History in 1993 and became an Instructor of Anatomy at the University of Puerto Rico.[4]
