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Museum of Paleontology
Women's History Month
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Recent News
To bite or how to bite: Emily Troyer investigates the diversity of jaws of bony fishes and how they evolved
UMMP Spotlight: Emily Troyer is an evolutionary biologist working with Matt Friedman on the diversification of jaws. She comes from the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a PhD in Biology in 2024.
Elisabeth Vrba (1942–2025): Expanding macroevolutionary theory
This Women’s History Month, we celebrate Elisabeth Vrba, a pioneering paleontologist whose bold ideas—like the Turnover Pulse hypothesis—challenged conventional views of evolutionary change and shaped modern paleobiology.
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