Relic (Pendergast, #1)

by Douglas Preston

Gregory Kawakita, a young Assistant Curator in the Evolutionary Biology Department.

the Callisto Effect, after the Greek myth in which a young woman is suddenly transformed into a wild creature.

But you’ve displayed three gifts that are indispensable to a first-class researcher: a sense of what to look for, a sense of where to look for it, and the zeal to see your theories through.”