Robert P. Anderson

Robert Paul Anderson is an American zoologist and mammalogist whose research focuses on biogeography, ecology, and taxonomy. He is a professor at the City College of New York and the City University of New York, and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History.

Biography Anderson studied biology at Kansas State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2001 with a dissertation on the systematics and biogeography of South American spiny pocket mice (Heteromys).