Jonathan Losos

Jonathan B. Losos (born December 7, 1961) is an American evolutionary biologist. His work has focused on a wide range of topics, but he is best known for his studies of convergent evolution and adaptive radiation, and for experimental studies of evolution in nature. Most of his empirical work has involved lizards in the genus Anolis. Formerly, the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard University,[1][2] he is now the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, as well as the founding director of the Living Earth Collaborative, a biodiversity partnership between Washington University, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Zoo.[3]

Honors and awards

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018[4] and has received a number of awards, including the Dobzhansky Prize, the David Starr Jordan Prize, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award, the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and the Sewall Wright Award.[5]

Works

Losos is the author of two books, Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles (University of California Press, 2009) and Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and the Future of Evolution (Riverhead Press, Penguin-Random House, 2017), and has edited a number of others, including The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited (co-edited by Robert Ricklefs; Princeton University Press, 2009), In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field (Roberts and Co., 2010), The Princeton Guide to Evolution (with many co-editors; Princeton University Press, 2014) and How Evolution Shapes Our Lives: Essays on Biology and Society (co-edited by Richard Lenski; Princeton University Press, 2016).

References
  1. "Lab". harvard.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  2. "Jonathan Losos". harvard.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  3. "Sustaining life on Earth | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis". The Source. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  4. http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20041833.html
  5. "Sewall Wright Award 2019". www.amnat.org. Retrieved 2019-04-23.


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