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G. Edward Hooks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Zoology, Auburn University (1991)
M.S., Zoology, Auburn University (1995)
Ph.D., Biology, University of Alabama (1998)
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303 Science Center |
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Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences |
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Longwood University |
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201 High Street |
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Farmville, VA 23909 |
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(434) 395-2668 |
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(434) 395-2652 |
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hooksge@longwood.edu |
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RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
My primary research focus is on the morphology, evolution, and
systematics of marine turtles. I also have general interests in
the morphology, evolution, systematics, and ecology of
Cretaceous marine vertebrates and of reptiles (both extant and
extinct).
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Hooks, G. E., III. (2005) The importance of the
amateur paleontologist; pp. 187-188 in R. J. Buta, R. K.
Rindsberg, and D. C. Kopaska-merkle (eds.), Pennsylvanian
Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama, Alabama
Paleontological Society Monograph No. 1.
Shimada, K, and G. E. Hooks, III. (2004) Shark-bitten
protostegid turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk,
Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 78(1):205-210.
Schwimmer, D. R., G. E. Hooks, III, and B. Johnson. (2002)
Revised taxonomy, age, and geologic range of the large lamniform
shark Cretodus semiplacodus. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 22(3):704-707.
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Biology
