Benedikt Hallgrimsson

Benedikt Hallgrimsson
Born1967 (age 5758)
Reykjavík, Iceland
Academic background
EducationBA, 1989, Anthropology, University of Alberta
MA, 1990, PhD, 1995, Anthropology, University of Chicago
ThesisFluctuating asymmetry and maturational spans in mammals: implications for the evolution of prolonged development in primates (1995)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity 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.