Author: Roger A. Anderson, PhD.

I am a professor of Biology at Western Washington University. My research focus is evolutionary autecology and I typically use deserts as my model ecosystem of research focus, and lizards as my model organismal system for investigating the major features of adaptedness in the integrated organismal phenotypes of the animal that have evolved to a particular range of biotic and abiotic challenges. The undergraduate courses reflect my focus: Animal Behavior, Comparative Vertebrate Physiology, Vertebrate Zoology, Ecology, Introductory Evolution and Evolution, and two concurrent summer field research courses: Ecological Methods, and Research in Reptile Ecology. More relevant to this website, however, is that I have a library of 50,000 pdfs and a few thousand books, from which I have derived much perspective and the temerity to attempt to launch this proposal for Origins & Extinctions Days, and a World Center for Survival of our Cultural and Biological Heritage, buttressed by Our Ethical Imperative.