Glenn Northcutt

{{short description|American neuroscientist (born 1941)}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Neuroscience, ethology, neurobiology

| workplaces = UC San Diego School of Medicine

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| alma_mater = Millikin University, University of Illinois

| thesis_title = The Telencephalon of the western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta belli)

| thesis_url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/50308#/summary

| thesis_year = 1968

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| notable_students = Walter Wilczynski, Georg F. Striedter

| known_for = Work on comparative vertebrate neurobiology

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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences (1978){{Cite web |url=https://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/faculty/awards/guggenheim.html |title=UCSD Faculty Guggenheim Fellows |website=academicaffairs.ucsd.edu |language=en-US |access-date=2017-09-23 |archive-date=2017-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924094026/https://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/faculty/awards/guggenheim.html |url-status=live }}

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Richard Glenn Northcutt (born 1941){{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82063504.html |title=Richard Glenn Northcutt |website=Library of Congress |access-date=2017-09-23 |archive-date=2017-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924093244/http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82063504.html |url-status=live }} is an American neuroscientist known for his work in comparative vertebrate neurobiology and evolutionary neuroscience. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Morphology, Visual Neuroscience, and Zoologische Reike, and was editor in chief of Brain, Behavior and Evolution.