Godfrey Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award
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Laurie Godfrey, professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology, has been honored with the 2024 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA). Established in 1992, the award recognizes AABA senior members who have demonstrated a lifetime of contributions and commitment to biological anthropology through their scholarship, training and service to the association.
Godfrey has conducted research in numerous areas, including primate evolution, paleobiology, functional morphology, evolutionary ecology and extinction. Her expertise ranges widely, including studies of public understanding (and misunderstanding) of evolution, the relations between evolution, growth and development, and the impacts of humans and climate change on the vertebrates of Madagascar.