Everything about Jennifer A Clack totally explained
Jennifer A. Clack is an
English paleontologist, an expert in the science of
evolution. She studies the "fish to
tetrapod" transition— the origin, evolutionary development and radiation of early tetrapods and their relatives among the
lobe-finned fishes. She is best-known for her book
Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods, published in 2002 and written with the layman in mind.
Clack is curator at the Museum of
Zoology and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at
Cambridge University, where she's devoted her career to studying the early development of
tetrapods, the "four-legged" animals said to have evolved from
Devonian lobe-finned fishes and colonized the freshwater swamps of the
Carboniferous period.
Clack received a B.Sc. in Zoology from the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University in 1984. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the
University of Leicester and an M.A. and D.Sc. from the
University of Cambridge.
In 2006, Clack was awarded a personal chair by the
University of Cambridge, taking the title Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology.
The fossil of
Acanthostega she discovered in
Greenland in 1987 is a transitional, water-bound primitive tetrapod. Her study of an ancient trackway preserved in mud, on
Valentia Island off the southwest coast of
Ireland is important evidence of an early tetrapod that ventured onto a muddy shoreline.
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