Stephen C. Stearns
Appearance
Stephen C. Stearns | |
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Born | December 12, 1946 | (age 77)
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Yale University, University of Wisconsin, University of British Columbia |
Known for | Life history evolution, evolutionary medicine |
Spouse | Beverly Peterson Stearns |
Children | Justin Stearns, Jason Stearns |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Evolutionary biology, Life history evolution, Evolutionary medicine |
Institutions | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University |
Thesis | A comparison of the evolution and expression of life history traits in stable and fluctuating environments: Gambusia affinis in Hawaii (1975) |
Notable students | Jacob Koella, Dieter Ebert, Tad Kawecki, Martin Ackermann |
Stephen C. Stearns (born December 12, 1946, in Kapaau, Hawaii and raised in Hawi, Hawaii)[citation needed], an American biologist, is the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He is known for his work in life history theory and evolutionary medicine.[1]
Education and training
- BA Yale University 1967
- MSc University of Wisconsin, Madison 1971
- PhD University of British Columbia 1975
- Miller Fellow University of California, Berkeley 1978
Investment in Infrastructure
- Helped to found the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in 1987.[2] He later served on its Council and as its President.
- Founded the Journal of Evolutionary Biology,[3] ESEB's main journal,[2] served as its first managing editor from 1986 to 1991, and later served on its Editorial Board.[citation needed] (According to Stearns, the ESEB was founded in part because Birkhäuser would not agree to a new journal unless it was backed by a society.[2])
- With Tim Clutton-Brock, founded the Tropical Biology Association in 1991.[citation needed]
- Founded the online open-access journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health and created the Foundation for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.[citation needed] 2011–2012
Awards and Honors
- 1987: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- 1993: European Chair of Biology at the École normale supérieure, Paris.
- 2000: Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications for a book he wrote with his wife, Beverly Peterson Stearns, Watching, from the Edge of Extinction.
- 2000: Distinguished Ecologist, University of Michigan.
- 2004: Raymond Pearl Memorial Lecturer, Human Biology Association.
- 2005: Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute.
- 2005: Fellow, Rockefeller Bellagio Conference and Study Center.
- 2005: Honorary Member of the Swiss Zoological Society.[4]
- 2007: Fellow, European Society for Evolutionary Biology.[citation needed]
- 2011: DeVane Medal for distinction in undergraduate teaching, Yale University Phi Beta Kappa.[5]
- 2011–2012: Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2015: Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zurich.[6]
Positions
- 2000–present: Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
- 1983–2000: Professor of Zoology, University of Basel.[7]
- 1978–1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Reed College
- 1995: Vice president of the Society for the Study of Evolution
- 1995–1996: Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Basel
- 1991–1998: President, Tropical Biology Association.
- 1994–1998: Chair, European Science Foundation Program in Population Biology.
- 2002–2005: Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
- 1986–1991: Managing Editor, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- 2012–2016: Editor in Chief, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
Selected publications
- Books
- The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences (Birkhaeuser 1987) ISBN 978-3-0348-6273-8
- The Evolution of LIfe Histories (Oxford University Press 1992) ISBN 978-0-19-857741-6
- Evolution in Health and Disease (Oxford University Press 1999, 2nd Ed with Jacob Koella 2007) ISBN 978-0-19-920746-6[8]
- Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (first author Beverly Peterson Stearns, Yale University Press 1999) ISBN 978-0-300-07606-6[9][10]
- Evolution, an Introduction (with Rolf Hoekstra, Oxford University Press 2000, 2nd Ed 2005) ISBN 978-0-19-925563-4[11]
- Evolutionary Medicine (with Ruslan Medzhitov, Sinauer 2016) ISBN 978-1-60535-260-2
- Papers
- Stearns, Stephen C. (1976), "Life-history tactics: A review of the ideas", The Quarterly Review of Biology, 51 (1): 3–47, doi:10.1086/409052, JSTOR 2825234.
- Stearns, Stephen C. (1977), "The evolution of life history traits: A critique of the theory and a review of the data" (PDF), Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 8: 145–171, doi:10.1146/annurev.es.08.110177.001045, JSTOR 2096724.
- Stearns, Stephen C.; Koella, Jacob C. (1986), "The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits: Predictions of reaction norms for age and size at maturity" (PDF), Evolution, 40 (5): 893–913, doi:10.2307/2408752.
- Stearns, Stephen C. (1989), "The evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity", BioScience, 39 (7): 436–445, doi:10.2307/1311135, JSTOR 1311135.
- Stearns, S. C. (1989), "Trade-offs in life-history evolution" (PDF), Functional Ecology, 3 (3): 259–268, doi:10.2307/2389364, JSTOR 2389364.
References
- ^ "Noted zoologist Stephen Stearns is new Bass Professor", Yale Bulletin and Calendar, 29 (1), 1 September 2000.
- ^ a b c Stearns, S. C. (2008), "How the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology were founded" (PDF), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21 (6): 1449–1451, doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01626.x.
- ^ http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/journal-of-evolutionary-biology/
- ^ http://www.yale.edu/eeb/stearns/honors_swiss.htm
- ^ Lim, Tse Yang (Spring 2011), "That wondrous feeling of learning something new: Tse Yang Lim '11 offered these comments about his teacher, Professor Stephen Stearns, at the DeVane Award ceremony in February", Inside the Classroom: Undergraduate Teaching at Yale.
- ^ http://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/staendiges-gastrecht-an-der-alma-mater-fuer-regine-aeppli-1.18530377
- ^ "News: Noted zoologist Stephen Stearns is new Bass Professor". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 29 (1). 1 September 2000. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ^ Behnke, J. M. (7 January 2009). "Review: Evolution in Health and Disease, 2nd edition, edited by S. C. Sterns and J. C. Koella". Parasit Vectors. 2: 4. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-2-4. PMC 2628889.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Dudgeon, D. (January 2001). "Review: Watching, from the edge of extinction by B. P. Stearns & S. C. Stearns". Porcupine! Newsletter of the Dept. of Ecology & Biodiversity, U. of Hong Kong (22): 28–29.
- ^ Stearns, B. P.; Stearns, S. C. (2010). "Still watching, from the edge of extinction". BioScience. 60 (2): 141–146.
- ^ Zimmerman, William F. (June 2007). "Review: Evolution: An Introduction, 2nd edition by Stephen C. Stearns and Rolf Hoekstra". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 82 (2): 149.
External links
- Stearns' web site at Yale University
- Stearns' introductory course Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior at Open Yale Courses
- Evolution and Medicine (2015) with Stephen Stearns, YouTube