"Zoos are as much about people as they are about animals. The study of zoos can tell us a lot about ourselves," Browne said.
He has written a book entitled Zootimes, which will soon be published by Yale University Press. Browne has also served as an overseer and executive committee member of Zoo New England and co-chair of that group's education and conservation committee.
"Dean Browne's appointment concludes a necessarily brief but intense national search which yielded an extraordinarily strong pool of candidates from both within and outside of Harvard," Nathans concluded in her e-mail message.
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