The academic year is in full swing now which means our graduate students are back from data collection. PhD candidate Paul spent most of his summer collecting data for his dissertation on feliform evolutionary history and morphological constraint.  He traveled to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, where he spent a month in the fossil carnivore collection, after which he visited Chicago for an additional two weeks at the Field Museum in their modern mammal collection.  By the end of the summer Paul was able to score 70 species of cat-like carnivore for over 300 morphological characters apiece. He also three-dimensionally digitized 110 skulls using the lab’s new Microscribe.  A busy, but very productive summer Paul!