# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-d-gingerich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:05:28.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-d-gingerich"
name: "Philip D. Gingerich"
slug: "philip-d-gingerich"
description: "Philip Dean Gingerich is an American paleontologist and educator. He is a professor emeritus of geology, biology, and anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and directed the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan (UMMP) from 1981 to 2010. His research focus is on vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene–Eocene transition and early Cenozoic mammals. His primary research focus is on the origin of modern orders of mammals, and he is a leading expert on the evolution of primates and Whales. Gingerich was among the experts who analyzed the skeleton of Darwinius masillae."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1946-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump