Stephen C. Stearns

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 in 1987. He later served on its council and as its president.
• Founded the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, ESEB's main journal, served as its first managing editor from 1986 to 1991, and later served on its Editorial Board.
• With Tim Clutton-Brock, founded the Tropical Biology Association in 1991.
• Founded the online open-access journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health in 2013.

  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.
• 2007: Fellow, European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
• 2011: DeVane Medal for distinction in undergraduate teaching, Yale University Phi Beta Kappa.
• 2011–2012: Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• 2015: Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zurich.

  Positions

• 1978–1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Reed College
• 1983–2000: Professor of Zoology, University of Basel.
• 1986–1991: Managing Editor, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
• 1991–1998: President, Tropical Biology Association.
• 1994–1998: Chair, European Science Foundation Program in Population Biology.
• 1995: Vice president of the Society for the Study of Evolution
• 1995–1996: Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Basel
• 2002–2005: Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
• 2000–present: Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

  Selected publications

• The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences
• The Evolution of Life Histories
• Evolution in Health and Disease
• Evolution, an Introduction
• Evolutionary Medicine

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