Caryl Parker Haskins (1908–2001)[1][2] was an American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology.
He found that male guppies in stream ponds further upstream were more colorful than those downstream, presumably because of fewer predators there.
[4] He also continued his research on entomology, working with his wife, Edna Haskins (whom he married in 1940[3]), and other colleagues.
In the 1930s, Haskins was inspired by Alfred Lee Loomis to establish his own research facility.
Affiliated with Harvard University, MIT and Union College, Haskins conducted research in microbiology, radiation physics and other fields in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Schenectady, New York.
In the 1940s, Luigi Provasoli joined the Laboratories to set up a research program in marine biology, which disbanded with his retirement in 1978.
Since the 1950s, the main focus of the research of Haskins Laboratories has been on speech and its biological basis.