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evolution
A conversation with

Shane Campbell-Staton ’08

This scholar, evolutionary biologist, and
master storyteller uses classrooms
and lecture halls along with podcasts,
television, and film to attract a broad
and diverse audience to science. His
goal? To help people see how science
plays such an important part in our past,
present, and future.

by KRISTINE KAPPEL THOMPSON
stories of Princeton University, has dedicated his life to exploring
Shane Campbell-Staton ’08, a biology professor at

human activity as a force for evolutionary change. He
studies the Anthropocene—the geological period we’re in
now—during which human activity has been the dominant
influence on climate and the environment. His lab, the
Campbell-Staton Group, looks at animal performance,
gene expression, and genomics to understand how
human activity affects evolution.

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