Adam Huttenlocker
- Assistant Professor of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
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Expertise Summary
Expert in paleontology, origins of mammals and early tetrapod evolution
Expertise
- paleontology
- fossils
- origins of mammals
- early tetrapod evolution
- paleophysiology
- mass extinctions
Additional Information
- Dr. Huttenlocker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences who serves as an instructor in the Years I & II Microanatomy curriculum. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 2013 and held a National Science Foundation-funded postdoctoral fellowship in comparative vertebrate physiology at The University of Utah from 2013 to 2016.
- His current research uses hard-tissue histology to understand the complex origins of mammalian behavior, growth, and endothermic physiology in non-mammalian synapsids and other early tetrapods (as recorded by their fossilized bones and teeth).
- As a functional paleobiologist, Dr. Huttenlocker’s teaching philosophy emphasizes shared patterns in vertebrate development and evolution that shed light on human and mammalian anatomy & physiology.
- He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.