Rich Legg
Although it's been rumored that I crawled from beneath a rock in Texas' Big Bend,  my development and delivery actually took place in New York City.  I was raised in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where early on, I concentrated my energies upon mastering ball-based games of the streets (stoop ball, stick ball, slap ball, punch ball and off-the point),  avoiding poison in skellzies, navigating the subways, haunting the American Museum of Natural History and New York City zoos, and acquiring that hard-edged abrasiveness which almost all non-New Yorkers find so endearing.

I schooled at St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn (now in Queens and now with girls! Go Terriers!), Fordham University in The Bronx (Go Rams!) and at Texas A&M University (Gig 'em, Aggies).  My first love was Chemistry--well, actually it was  a girl named Marge.  I switched to Biology relatively late in my academic life.  An interest in the evolution of mammals, and more so the process of evolutionary change, drove my earliest studies in Biology.  I'm now a student of anything that evolution touches (which would be just about everything, wouldn't you say?) with a special interest in understanding the evolution of human behavior.


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"He's got the body of a greyhound and the mind of a wiener dog....or is it the other way around?" 
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Richard G. Legg, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Saint Ambrose University
Davenport, Iowa 52803
Office: Lewis 210
Phone: 563-333-6369

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An ancient crew of SAU desert rats
Back row l to r: Karlen 'Red' F., Marty 'Country-club' R., Rich 'Rabbit' L., Amy 'Blisters G., Craig 'The Sphinx' H., Rob 'Doc' P.
Front row l to r: Mark 'the Flying Fork' M., and Steve 'Duffy' D.

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General Biology (F08)
Vertebrate Zoology (TBA)
Principles of Evolutionary Change (F08)
Evolution (S09)
Desert Biology (TBA)
Tropical Biology (TBA)
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"That's enough about lessons," the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone.   "Tell her something about the games now." - from The Mock Turtle's Story in Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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