Benedikt Hallgrimsson
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.