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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Evolutionary biologists. It includes evolutionary biologists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.She is considered "a highly recognized pioneer in modernizing our understanding of the evolutionary basis of female behavior in both nonhuman and human primates". [2]
Deborah Charlesworth FRS FRSE (née Maltby; born 1943) is a population geneticist from the UK, notable for her important discoveries in population genetics and evolutionary biology. [3] [4] Her most notable research is in understanding the evolution of recombination, sex chromosomes and mating system for plants. [3]
Rebecca L. Cann (born 1951) is a geneticist who made a scientific breakthrough on mitochondrial DNA variation and evolution in humans, popularly called Mitochondrial Eve.Her discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother who lived <200,000 years ago became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most widely accepted explanation of the origin of ...
In 2011, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. [4] Between 2011 and 2014, Aktipis was an assistant research professor in the department of psychology at Arizona State University while also serving as director of human and social evolution at the Center for Evolution and Cancer ...
Pages in category "American women evolutionary biologists" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Marla B. Sokolowski FRSC is a University Professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. [1] Sokolowski is a scientist whose work is widely considered to be groundbreaking, foundational for a variety of fields, and instrumental in refutations of genetic determinism, and has, according to the Royal Society of Canada, "permanently changed the way we ...
Joan Roughgarden (born 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist.She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon.