Jackson P. Spradley, Graduate Assistant

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Office Location:	0013 Biological Sciences Building
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Education:

B.S.

University of Arkansas

2012

Specialties:

Primate Paleontology & Morphology
Vertebrate Paleontology
Primate Ecology
Functional Anatomy

Research Interests: South American mammalian paleontology

My research is on the interplay between geography and climate on one hand, and species richness and adaptive morphology on the other. Specifically I am studying how primates, rodents, and marsupials co-vary with climate in South America. This involves both species richness data from field observations and specimen-based measurments of ecomorphology. Ultimately, the results obtained from modern faunas can be used to reconstruct the paleoenvironments of fossil faunas.