George Gaylord Simpson Prize

Yale University graduate students and recent PhD graduates are invited to submit one first-authored paper concerning evolution and the fossil record by March 1, 2024 to Sung Yun in the Director’s Office of the Yale Peabody Museum. So long as the paper explicitly addresses the fossil record, the range of questions addressed is open and could include contributions to the philosophy and history of science, theory and methods of phylogenetic inference, biogeography, paleobiology, paleoecology, taphonomy, biostratigraphy, biogeochemical insights into past life, divergence time estimation, biodiversity studies, developmental biology, functional morphology, or conservation biology. Submissions must be either published or in press in a refereed journal. Graduate students in residence in a department at Yale, or past graduates no more than five years after PhD, are eligible. Former winners are not eligible, but papers can be submitted more than once.

Submissions are now being accepted. Winners will be notified via email by May 8, 2024 and will be featured on the Simpson Prize page. Award checks will be mailed to the address provided in the online submission form below.

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