Question: who is your favourite scientist and who do you look up to?

Kate Clancy answered on 15 Jun 2011:

Honestly, there are so many… where would I begin?

There’s Becky Stumpf, a professor in my own department and university, who does years of fieldwork with chimpanzees to study female mating strategies.

There’s Katie Hinde, a professor who will be starting at Harvard in the fall, who studies mammary gland biology and milk.

There’s Jane Goodall, who has been a tireless supporter of animal conservation and an amazing field researcher in her own right.

May Berenbaum, another person at my university, who studies insect-plant interactions.

Two graduate students in my department, Scott Williams and Milena Shattuck, who got a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on primate evolution and arboreality (that means living in trees).

Julienne Rutherford, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, who studies marmoset placentas. How cool is that?

And I just heard one of the coolest papers ever by Holly Dunsworth, soon to be a professor in Rhode Island, who is trying to understand the obstetrical dilemma (this means the problem in human evolution of getting up on two legs but possibly impacting the birth canal).

And I could go on and on!