Stan Rachootin Professor srachoot@mtholyoke.edu 413-538-2093 Office: 3-D Clapp Laboratory CV EDUCATION B.S. Yale College 1973 Marshall Scholar, Cambridge University Ph.D. Yale University, 1984 RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. Evolution and development, usually of serially repeated structures. 2. Projects have often concerned polychaete worms, mammalian teeth, or fish. 3. The history of evolutionary theory, often in relation to development. COURSES Biology 226 Evolution Spring Biology 308 Darwin Spring Biology 310 Invertebrate Zoology Fall Biology 332 Macroevolution Fall SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Rachootin, S. 1985. Owen and Darwin reading a fossil: Macrauchenia in a boney light. The Darwinian Heritage, David Kohn, ed. Princeton University Press. pp 155-184. Rachootin, S. and Thomson, K.S. 1981. Epigenetics, paleontology, and evolution. Evolution Today, Proceedings 2nd Int. Congress Syst. Evol. Biology, G Scudder and J Reveal, eds. pp 181-193. Last Modified: February 20, 2007

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