Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.
Professor of Biology,
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Professor of Anatomy in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Medical School)
Phone: 617-495-2499
E-mail:
Office: 219 MCZ Labs, 26 Oxford St
Comparative anatomy of fossil and recent vertebrates and the evolutionary pathways of structural and functional development.
Recent Publications
Blackburn,
David C., James Hanken and Farish A.
Jenkins, Jr., 2008. Concealed weapons:
erectile claws
in African frogs.
Biology Letters 4 (2008):
355-357.
Downs,
Jason P., Edward B. Daeschler, Farish
A. Jenkins, Jr., and Neil H. Shubin,
2008. The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik
roseae. Nature 456 (2008): 925-929.
Jenkins,
Farish A., Jr., Neil H. Shubin, Stephen
M. Gatesy and Anne Warren, 2008. Gerrothorax
pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic
Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland
and a reassessment of head lifting in
temnospondyl feeding. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 28 (2008): 935-950.
Jenkins, F. A., Jr., D. M. Walsh and R. L. Carrol, 2007. Anatomy of Eocaecilia micropodia, a Limbed Caecilian of the Early Jurassic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 158 (6): 285-365.
Baier DB, SM Gatesy, FA Jenkins, 2007. A critical ligamentous mechanism in the evolution of avian flight. Nature 445 (7125): 307-310
Daeschler EB, NH Shubin, FA Jenkins, 2006. A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440 (7085): 757-763
Shubin NH, EB Daeschler, FA Jenkins, 2006. The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb. Nature 440 (7085): 764-77
Courses Taught
OEB 139. Evolution of the Vertebrates
OEB 323. Advanced Vertebrate Anatomy
FS v31. The Beasts
of Antiquity and
Their Natural History
