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词条 Stephen C. Stearns
释义

  1. Education and training

  2. Investment in Infrastructure

  3. Awards and honors

  4. Positions

  5. Selected publications

  6. References

  7. External links

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| fields = Evolutionary biology, Life history evolution, Evolutionary medicine
| workplaces = Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
| alma_mater = Yale University, University of Wisconsin, University of British Columbia
| thesis_title = A comparison of the evolution and expression of life history traits in stable and fluctuating environments: Gambusia affinis in Hawaii
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| thesis_year = 1975
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| notable_students = Jacob Koella, Dieter Ebert, Tad Kawecki, Martin Ackermann
| known_for = Life history evolution, evolutionary medicine
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| spouse = Beverly Peterson Stearns
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}}Stephen C. Stearns (born December 12, 1946, in Kapaau, Hawaii and raised in Hawi, Hawaii){{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}, 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|date=July 2011}} (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|date=July 2011}}
  • Founded the online open-access journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health and created the Foundation for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} 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|date=July 2011}}
  • 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]
  • [https://books.google.com/books/about/Watching_from_the_Edge_of_Extinction.html?id=0BHeC-tXIB4C 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
  • {{citation

| last = Stearns | first = Stephen C.
| issue = 1
| journal = The Quarterly Review of Biology
| jstor = 2825234
| pages = 3–47
| title = Life-history tactics: A review of the ideas
| volume = 51
| year = 1976
| doi=10.1086/409052}}.
  • {{citation

| last = Stearns | first = Stephen C.
| journal = Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
| jstor = 2096724
| pages = 145–171
| title = The evolution of life history traits: A critique of the theory and a review of the data
| url = http://stearnslab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/02.stearns1977ares.pdf
| volume = 8
| year = 1977
| doi=10.1146/annurev.es.08.110177.001045}}.
  • {{citation

| last1 = Stearns | first1 = Stephen C.
| last2 = Koella | first2 = Jacob C.
| doi = 10.2307/2408752
| issue = 5
| journal = Evolution
| pages = 893–913
| title = The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits: Predictions of reaction norms for age and size at maturity
| url = http://sunmegroup.net/eeb/stearns/pdf/17.StearnsKoella1986Evolution.pdf
| volume = 40
| year = 1986}}.
  • {{citation

| last = Stearns | first = Stephen C.
| issue = 7
| journal = BioScience
| jstor = 1311135
| pages = 436–445
| title = The evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity
| volume = 39
| year = 1989
| doi=10.2307/1311135}}.
  • {{citation

| last = Stearns | first = S. C.
| issue = 3
| journal = Functional Ecology
| jstor = 2389364
| pages = 259–268
| title = Trade-offs in life-history evolution
| url = http://stearnslab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/21.stearnsfunctecol1989.pdf
| volume = 3
| year = 1989
| doi=10.2307/2389364}}.

References

1. ^{{citation|title=Noted zoologist Stephen Stearns is new Bass Professor|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v29.n1/story6.html|journal=Yale Bulletin and Calendar|date=September 1, 2000|volume=29|issue=1}}.
2. ^{{citation|last=Stearns|first=S. C.|year=2008|title=How the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology were founded|journal=Journal of Evolutionary Biology|volume=21|issue=6|pages=1449–1451|doi=10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01626.x|url=http://www.eeb.yale.edu/stearns/pdf/51.Stearns2008JEB.pdf|pmid=19018942|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621213004/http://www.eeb.yale.edu/stearns/pdf/51.Stearns2008JEB.pdf|archivedate=June 21, 2010|df=dmy-all}}.
3. ^http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/journal-of-evolutionary-biology/
4. ^http://www.yale.edu/eeb/stearns/honors_swiss.htm
5. ^{{citation|title=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|url=http://opac.yale.edu/undergrad/devane-stearns.html|journal=Inside the Classroom: Undergraduate Teaching at Yale|date=Spring 2011|last=Lim|first=Tse Yang}}.
6. ^http://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/staendiges-gastrecht-an-der-alma-mater-fuer-regine-aeppli-1.18530377
7. ^{{cite journal|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v29.n1/story6.html |title= News: Noted zoologist Stephen Stearns is new Bass Professor |journal=Yale Bulletin and Calendar |date=September 1, 2000 |volume =29 |issue= 1|accessdate=December 19, 2013}}
8. ^{{cite journal|author=Behnke, J. M.|title=Review: Evolution in Health and Disease, 2nd edition, edited by S. C. Sterns and J. C. Koella|journal=Parasit Vectors|date=January 7, 2009|volume=2|pages=4|pmc=2628889|doi=10.1186/1756-3305-2-4}}
9. ^{{cite journal|author=Dudgeon, D.|title=Review: Watching, from the edge of extinction by B. P. Stearns & S. C. Stearns|journal=Porcupine! Newsletter of the Dept. of Ecology & Biodiversity, U. of Hong Kong|date=January 2001|issue= 22|pages=28–29|url=http://www.biosch.hku.hk/ecology/porcupine/por22/22-bookreview.htm}}
10. ^{{cite journal|author=Stearns, B. P.|author2=Stearns, S. C.|year=2010|title=Still watching, from the edge of extinction|journal=BioScience|volume=60|issue=2|pages=141–146|url=http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/2/141.short|doi=10.1525/bio.2010.60.2.8}}
11. ^{{cite journal|author=Zimmerman, William F.|title=Review: Evolution: An Introduction, 2nd edition by Stephen C. Stearns and Rolf Hoekstra|date=June 2007|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=82|issue=2|pages=149|url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/519589?journalCode=qrb|doi=10.1086/519589}}

External links

  • Stearns' web site at Yale University
  • [https://oyc.yale.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/eeb-122 Stearns' introductory course Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior] at Open Yale Courses
  • [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezvm7QkQ_PioadoAWqfa2L0 Evolution and Medicine (2015) with Stephen Stearns, YouTube]
  • Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health at Oxford University Press
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