# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-roughgarden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:20:34.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-roughgarden"
name: "Joan Roughgarden"
slug: "joan-roughgarden"
description: "Joan Roughgarden 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. She has more recently become known for her rejection of sexual selection, her theistic evolutionism, and her work on holobiont evolution."
tagline: "American ecologist"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/joan-roughgarden"
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    title: "Joan Roughgarden"
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    title: "جوآن راگگاردن"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump