The prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has appointed Hopi Hoekstra as an HHMI Investigator. The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Mammals in the Museum…
In recent years, a growing number of studies have reported the identity of genes that contribute to phenotypic variation. However, few have narrowed the causative effects down to…
(l to r) Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dana Brimmer, and Jesse Weber Many animals build elaborate structures—bees make hives, birds build nests, and rodents construct burrows—for which Richard Dawkins…
Hopi Hoeckstra The award is named in memory of Estela Medrano, a professor at the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine and an internationally recognized…
Hopi Hoekstra The three heads on the wall of Hopi Hoekstra’s office belong to the same species of blesboks, a South African antelope with a characteristic blaze on…