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Name
  
Rudolf Raff


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Books
  
Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, Once We All Had Gills

Education
  
Duke University (1967), Pennsylvania State University

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Rudolf A. Raff is an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology, at Indiana University. He is known for research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. He is also director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.

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Life

Raff graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in 1963, and from Duke University with a Ph.D. in 1967.

Awards

Raff was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow. He won the 2004 Sewall Wright Award, and won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2001. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Works

  • with Thomas C. Kaufman, Illustrated by E.C. Raff, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Macmillan 1983, ISBN 0-02-397500-8
  • The shape of life: genes, development, and the evolution of animal form, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-70266-7
  • William R. Jeffery, Rudolf A. Raff (eds), Time, space, and pattern in embryonic development, A.R. Liss, 1983, ISBN 978-0-8451-2201-3
  • Rudolf A. Raff, Once We All Had Gills, Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World, Indiana University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00235-8

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