Background
Honeycutt was born on August 5, 1948 in Houston, Texas, United States; the son of Max Erwin Honeycutt and Neta (Still) Honeycutt.
Honeycutt was born on August 5, 1948 in Houston, Texas, United States; the son of Max Erwin Honeycutt and Neta (Still) Honeycutt.
Honeycutt received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas in 1970. Eight years later he earned his Master of Science degree from Texas Advertising & Marketing University. In 1981, Rodney was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Texas Technology University.
Honeycutt began his career as a postdoctoral fellow at Australian National University in 1981 and had held it for two years. In 1983, he took a position of a curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and associate professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Then in 1989, Rodney became a professor of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University.
Since 2006, he has been a professor of the Division of Natural Science at at Pepperdine University. Also since 2011 Honeycutt has served as a dean of Natural Science Division at the same university.
Honeycutt is a member of American Society of Mammalogy, Society for the Study Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists and Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
On August 1, 1970 Honeycutt married Dierdre Anne Hale. They have two children.
