Originally posted by Ripsnort
Austin, Texas=Berkeley of the South West.
dont blame this guy on us...
Eric R. Pianka, Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology
B. A., Carleton College, 1960
Ph. D., University of Washington, 1965
D. Sc., University of Western Australia, 1990
Eric R. Pianka was born in the mountains in the shadow of Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County along the California-Oregon border in 1939.
At age 13, he was seriously injured in a Bazooka blast in the front yard of his childhood home in Yreka, California.
possible runner up for the Darwin Award?He was admitted, but without financial aid, to all three and chose to attend the University of Washington in Seattle because it was farthest from home.
You guys let him escape to Texas
In the summer of 1968, Pianka accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has stayed ever since.