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Joan Roughgarden

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American ecologist

United StatesScientistsBorn 1946 · age 80
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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.

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1985Guggenheim Fellowship

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Gary Dahl47.9Gary Starkweather47.9Peter Woit47.9Marie Van Brittan Brown47.9George Ledyard Stebbins47.9Warren Siegel47.9

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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.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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living
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Born 1946 · age 80
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