Prof. Loren E. Babcock is a professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Director of the Orton Geological Museum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1990. Prof. Babcock’s research centers principally on the early history of multicellular animals (notably trilobites), biotic changes across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition, Cambrian global chronostratigraphy, processes of fossilization, and various topics in evolutionary paleobiology, such as the role of predation in evolution and the evolutionary history of biologic asymmetry. He has also received several awards, including the Charles Schuchert Award for Excellence and Promise in Paleontology and the Erasmus Haworth Award for Distinguished Alumni Honors in Geology from the University of Kansas.
