Edgar Benavides, Ph.D.

Edgar was born and raised in Bolivia. He is an evolutionary and organismal biologist primarily interested in vertebrate biogeography and speciation. He’s done research and published on Galápagos tortoises, Galápagos Lava lizards, and most recently, describing intriguing evolutionary patterns in American darters and Andean water frogs in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Yale University.  He’s Passionate about biodiversity and Conservation Biology issues, a course he most recently taught at Western Connecticut State University.