David Mindell
David P. Mindell | |
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| Known for | The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life |
| Awards | 1986 George S. Wise Post-doctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2006 Fellow of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University 2007 Independent Publisher Gold Medal Award, for "The Evolving World"' 2011 Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Prescott College Brigham Young University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ornithology, evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Website | davidpmindell |
David P. Mindell is an American evolutionary biologist and author. He is currently a senior researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Mindell's work is focused on the systematics, conservation and molecular evolution of birds, especially birds of prey. He is known for his 2006 book, The Evolving World in which he explained, for the general public, how evolution applies to everyday life.
From 1994 to 2008 Mindell was Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and Curator of birds at the University of Michigan. He served as Dean of Science and Harry & Diana Hind Chair at the California Academy of Sciences between 2008 and 2011, and was Program Director in the Division of Environmental Biology at the US National Science Foundation during 2012 to 2016.