Hendrik Poinar
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Hendrik N. Poinar (born 1969 in Utrecht, The Netherlands) is an evolutionary biologist. He is best known for successfully extracting DNA sequences from ground sloth coprolites.
The son of noted entomologist George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar, Poinar received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1992 and 1999 respectively before earning a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Munich, after which he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
He is presently a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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