| Laurie Godfrey | |
| Birth Name: | Laurie Rohde Godfrey |
| Birth Date: | 27 August 1945 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Anthropology Paleontology |
| Workplaces: | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
| Thesis Title: | Structure and Function in Archaeolemur and Hadropithecus (subfossil Malagasy Lemurs): The Postcranial Evidence |
| Thesis Url: | https://books.google.com/books/about/Structure_and_Function_in_Archaeolemur_a.html?id=kUo2AwEACAAJ |
| Thesis Year: | 1977 |
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| Known For: | Research on the lemurs of Madagascar |
| Awards: | Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)[1] |
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Laurie R. Godfrey (born August 27, 1945)[2] is an American paleontologist and physical anthropologist.[3] [4] She is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[5] Her research has focused on the evolutionary history of the present-day lemur populations of Madagascar.[6] [7] An outspoken critic of creationism and advocate for the teaching of evolution in schools, she has edited three books on the subject: Scientists Confront Creationism (1983), What Darwin Began: Modern Darwinian and Non-Darwinian Perspectives on Evolution (1985), and (with A.J. Petto) Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism (2007).[1]