Douglas J. Futuyma
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Douglas Joel Futuyma is an American
biologist
.
from Cornell University
, and took his M.S.
and Ph.D.
at the University of Michigan
. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insect
s and the plant
s themselves. He was Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor, and is now a distinguished professor of ecology
and evolution
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
.
Futuyma is the author of the widely used textbook Evolutionary Biology and Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution, an introduction to the creation-evolution controversy
. His most recent textbook, Evolution, was published early in 2005 as an introductory textbook for undergraduates, with an updated 2nd edition released in 2009. Futuyma is also the co-author with M. Slatkin of "Coevolution".
Futuyma has been president of the Society for the Study of Evolution
, and of the American Society of Naturalists
. He was the editor of Evolution and the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.
He was awarded the Sewall Wright
Award from the American Society of Naturalists, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Australia
. He was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States on 25 April 2006.
United States
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biologist
Biology
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.
Academics
Futuyma graduated with a B.S.Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, and took his M.S.
Master's degree
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and Ph.D.
Doctorate
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at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insect
Insect
Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...
s and the plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
s themselves. He was Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Ann Arbor, and is now a distinguished professor of ecology
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
and evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
State University of New York at Stony Brook
The State University of New York at Stony Brook, also known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about east of Manhattan....
.
Futuyma is the author of the widely used textbook Evolutionary Biology and Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution, an introduction to the creation-evolution controversy
Creation-evolution controversy
The creation–evolution controversy is a recurring cultural, political, and theological dispute about the origins of the Earth, humanity, life, and the universe....
. His most recent textbook, Evolution, was published early in 2005 as an introductory textbook for undergraduates, with an updated 2nd edition released in 2009. Futuyma is also the co-author with M. Slatkin of "Coevolution".
Futuyma has been president of the Society for the Study of Evolution
Society for the Study of Evolution
The Society for the Study of Evolution is a professional organization of evolutionary biologists. It was formed in the United States in 1946 to promote evolution and the integration of various fields of science concerned with evolution and to organize the publication of a scientific journal to...
, and of the American Society of Naturalists
American Society of Naturalists
The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America...
. He was the editor of Evolution and the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.
He was awarded the Sewall Wright
Sewall Wright
Sewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...
Award from the American Society of Naturalists, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. He was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States on 25 April 2006.
Books
- Futuyma, D.J. 1979. Evolutionary Biology. 1st ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-199-6
- Futuyma, D.J. 1983. Science on Trial: the Case for Evolution. 1st ed. Pantheon Books, New York. ISBN 0-394-52371-7
- Futuyma, D.J. & M. Slatkin, eds. 1983. Coevolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-228-3
- Futuyma, D.J. 1986. Evolutionary Biology. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-188-0
- Futuyma, D.J. 1995. Science on Trial: the Case for Evolution. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-184-8
- Futuyma, D.J. 1998. Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. (dated 1998, published 1997) ISBN 0-87893-189-9
- Futuyma, D.J. 2005. Evolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-187-2
- Futuyma, D.J. 2009. Evolution. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-87893-223-8
- Futuyma, D.J Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics: (Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) in 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Selected Papers
- 1984: with S. J. Risch "Sexual orientation, sociobiology, and evolution" (Journal of Homosexuality, 9, 157-168)
- 1987: "On the role of species in anagenesis" (Amer. Natur. 130: 465–473)
- 1996: with C. Mitter. "Insect-plant interactions: The evolution of component communities" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 351:1361–1366)
- 1995: "The uses of evolutionary biology" (Science 267: 41–42)
- 1995: with M.C. Keese and D.J. Funk. "Genetic constraints on macroevolution: The evolution of host affiliation in the leaf beetle genus Ophraella" (Evolution 49:797–809)
- 1992: with M. C. Keese. "Evolution and coevolution of plants and phytophagous arthropods" (in G.A. Rosenthal and M.R. Berenbaum (edd) Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites (2nd ed.) Academic Press, NY. pp 439–475)
External links
- Douglas J. Futuyma — a short biography from the State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Hypotheses, Facts, and the Nature of Science — a philosophy of sciencePhilosophy of scienceThe philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth...
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