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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.
In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman. In terms of mitochondrial haplogroups, the mt-MRCA is situated at the divergence of macro-haplogroup L into L0 and L1–6.
St. Mary received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Harvard Radcliffe College before earning her Ph.D from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. She is the first African-American woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology in the United States. [1]
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution is a 2023 non-fiction book about human evolution written by American scientist Cat Bohannon. Cat Bohannon. The book explores how women’s biology shaped human history and culture. [1]
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 .
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]
Mary Jane West-Eberhard (born 1941 [1]) is an American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation.
Instead, she worked with geneticist Richard B. Goldschmidt, who was a director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin. [6] [32] She left Germany early amidst mounting political tension in Europe, returned to Cornell, but found that the university would not hire a woman professor. [33]