Nicholas R. Longrich is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist from Kodiak, Alaska, who is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Bath in England. He studies dinosaurs, pterosaurs, fossil birds, lizards, and snakes. Longrich is particularly interested in the idea that macroevolution is more than just lots of microevolution—that over long periods of time, at large scales, and in the evolution of complex structures, the processes of evolution itself have evolved.