John Flynn Elected as AAAS Fellow

Friday, December 18 3:06 pm

John Flynn, Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals and Professor and Dean of the Richard Gilder Graduate School, joins five other American Museum of Natural History colleagues as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

On December 17, it was announced that Dr. Flynn was elected by his peers for “distinguished contributions in vertebrate paleontology, especially carnivore evolution and faunal succession in South America, and for development of the graduate school at the Museum.”

“This honor emphasizes the value of Museum-based research and encyclopedic collections,” says Dr. Flynn. “My research is highly inter-disciplinary, integrating field and laboratory work, spanning many facets of geology and biology.” Dr. Flynn’s research helps resolve interesting questions like the history of the Andes and the pattern body and brain size changes during the evolution of carnivores.

Museum AAAS Fellows elected in pervious years are anthropologist Robert Carneiro, ornithologist Joel Cracraft, paleontologist Michael Novacek, entomologist Jerome Rozen, and physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall.