Sharon Emerson

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'''Sharon B. Emerson''' (born 1945) is an American biologist and was a research professor emeritus at the University of Utah.

In 1993, she was chair of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the American Society of Zoologists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1280028/2-texans-among-list-of-winners-of-macarthur-grants.html |title=2 Texans among list of winners of MacArthur grants |website=www.chron.com |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018230319/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1280028/2-texans-among-list-of-winners-of-macarthur-grants.html |archive-date=18 October 2012 |url-status=dead|date=1995-06-13}}</ref> She taught at University of Illinois, Chicago.<ref>{{cite web |title=UIC Gender & Women's Studies |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/program/history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528044116/http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/program/history.htm |archive-date=2010-05-28 |accessdate=25 October 2018 |website=Uic.edu}}</ref>

==Awards== *1995 MacArthur Fellows Program

==Works== *[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119842410/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 "The ecomorphology of Bornean tree frogs (family Rhacophoridae)"]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'', Volume 101 Issue 4, Pages 337 - 357 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=kgou0QU8t-YC&pg=PA123 "Allometric Prey of Predator-Prey Interactions"], ''Ecological morphology: integrative organismal biology'', Editors Peter Cam Wainwright, Stephen M. Reilly, University of Chicago Press, 1994, {{ISBN|9780226869957}}

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==External links== *{{BHL author|2752}}

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