What type of professor would be a suitable adviser to both a Paleontologist and an Evolutionary Biologist?

Question

I am writing a story and it involves dinosaurs and grad students in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology. I have a professor character who is an adviser to both and I would like to have some options as to reasonable areas of expertise for this character. Could he be either a Paleontologist or Evolutionary Biologist himself? What about a Geologist? Anything else? The story takes place in the hills/jungles of Peru so I would like to endow the characters with practical traits useful in this environment.

Answer 1

A geologist wouldn't be appropriate. I would start with the one more appropriate to how your story starts, probably the paleontologist. If you discover they don't have the needed background in evolutionary biology, you and your advisor should get a suitable consultant/collaborator.