Theodore Garland Jr. (born 28 November 1956) is a biologist specializing in evolutionary physiology at the University of California, Riverside.
in biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working with William Glen Bradley, a mammalogist, and his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine under Albert F. Bennett, a comparative physiologist.
During his Ph.D. work, he recorded the maximum speed (34.6 km/h) of what to date remains the world's fastest lizard, Ctenosaura similis.
[3] Garland is a former Topic Editor for Comprehensive Physiology,[4] and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Morphology,[5] The American Naturalist, and Evolution.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas named him College of Sciences Alumnus of the Year [10] in April 2017.