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'''Philip Gingerich''' is an [[Evolution|evolutionary]] [[Paleontology|paleontologist]], [[Biology|biologist]], and anthropologist. He is professor of anthropology, biology, and [[Geology|geology]] at the University of Michigan, and also director of University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology.<ref>http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gingeric/index.htm</ref>
Gingerich is most known for his research on the evolution of the [[whale]] and the evolution of [[Primate|primates]]. He was one of the [[Science|scientists]] who worked on the ''[[Darwinius Masillae]]'' ("Ida") fossil, and he beleives that "Ida" is [[transitional form]] between anthropoid (more human-like) primates and more primitive primates.
==Work on evolution of the whale==
In the 1980s, Gingerich authored a paper on the fossil ''[[Pakicetus]],'' which he thought was a transitional between hoofed animals and whales. Based on only on a partial skull, Gingerich made a reconstruction of ''Pakicetus'' showing it swimming in the [[sea]].<ref>http://creation.com/not-at-all-like-a-whale</ref> Much later a nearly complete skeleton of ''Pakicetus'' was unearthed, revealing that the creature was a four-legged land mammal. Its only whale-like feature is a whale-like inner ear.
Gingerich has studied several other claimed transitional fossils relevent to whale evolution.
[[Category:Paleontologists]][[Category:Evolutionists]]
Gingerich is most known for his research on the evolution of the [[whale]] and the evolution of [[Primate|primates]]. He was one of the [[Science|scientists]] who worked on the ''[[Darwinius Masillae]]'' ("Ida") fossil, and he beleives that "Ida" is [[transitional form]] between anthropoid (more human-like) primates and more primitive primates.
==Work on evolution of the whale==
In the 1980s, Gingerich authored a paper on the fossil ''[[Pakicetus]],'' which he thought was a transitional between hoofed animals and whales. Based on only on a partial skull, Gingerich made a reconstruction of ''Pakicetus'' showing it swimming in the [[sea]].<ref>http://creation.com/not-at-all-like-a-whale</ref> Much later a nearly complete skeleton of ''Pakicetus'' was unearthed, revealing that the creature was a four-legged land mammal. Its only whale-like feature is a whale-like inner ear.
Gingerich has studied several other claimed transitional fossils relevent to whale evolution.
[[Category:Paleontologists]][[Category:Evolutionists]]