Gavin Merritt

Gavin Merritt teaches biological anthropology at a state university in Michigan. His courses center on human origins, ancestral lineage, and physical variation. He regularly runs laboratory sessions where undergraduates handle hominin fossil casts to evaluate structural skeletal changes. Merritt also writes about human evolution for Biology Insights. Living in Traverse City, he centers his classroom work on comparative anatomy, teaching students how fossil records reveal the traits of early hominins.