Michael A. Mares

Michael A. Mares is an American zoologist, academic, and author. He is the Emeritus Director and Curator at the Sam Noble Museum, as well as a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at the University of Oklahoma.

Mares is the recipient of the 2008 Jackson Award for exceptional service to the American Society of Mammalogists and is most known for his works on convergent evolution, conservation, biogeography, systematics, and ecology of small mammals. He is the co-editor of ''Latin American Mammalogy: History, Biodiversity, and Conservation'' and the author of ''A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape''. Provided by Wikipedia