About the Author of Unifying Principles of Biology

                      Kendall W. Corbin, Ph.D.                 

Kendall W. Corbin, Ph.D. received his B.A. degree in 1961 from Carleton College, and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1965.

From 1965 to the fall of 1970 he was a Research Associate and Lecturer in Biology at Yale University. Thereafter, until 2004 he was a professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where he lectured on the topics of ecology, biology, population genetics, and human evolution. During those years he also carried out extensive field and laboratory research in North and South America that dealt with avian and invertebrate population genetics. He is now a Professor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota. In addition, during 2012 and 2013 he was a Community Faculty Member at Metropolitan State University, Twin Cities, Minnesota where he continued to teach biology.

During his career, Dr. Corbin had the privilege of teaching over 11,000 students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and over a dozen graduate students obtained their own advanced degrees under his direction. At different times he was the Director of the Graduate Program in Ecology, and the Graduate Program in Conservation Biology. For two years he was the interim Director of the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History.

These days he devotes much of his time to writing and to the conservation of habitats of endangered species. In all of these activities he is blessed to be encouraged and supported by his wife, Susanne G. Corbin.


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