Barbara Rosemary Grant

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Barbara Rosemary Grant , she uses the first name Rosemary, (born October 8, 1936 in Arnside ) is a British evolutionary biologist . She was a professor at Princeton University .

Darwin's finches

Career

Grant studied biology at the University of Edinburgh with a bachelor's degree in 1960. She was 1960 to 1964 at the University of British Columbia , 1964/65 at Yale University and 1973 to 1977 at McGill University . From 1977 to 1985 she conducted research at the University of Michigan and from 1985 to 1996 at Princeton University, where she was also a lecturer . From 1997 she was Senior Research Scholar at Princeton with the rank of professor. In 2008 she retired.

Grant and her husband Peter Raymond Grant undertook long-term field studies over 35 years on an object of evolutionary biology that has been a classic since Charles Darwin , the Darwin's finches on the Galapagos island of Daphne Major . They demonstrated the rapid evolutionary change of the phenotype in these finches, thus they support the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin.

In 1998 she received the EO Wilson Naturalist Award, in 2002 the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society, in 2005 the Balzan Prize for Population Biology, in 2008 the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society and in 2009 the Kyoto Prize . In 2015 she was awarded the William Brewster Medal , for 2017 she and her husband were awarded the Royal Medal and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award .

She is a member of the Royal Society , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997), the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Canada .

She has been married to Peter Raymond Grant since 1962, with whom she has two daughters.

Fonts

  • with P. Grant, JNM Smith, IJ Abbott, LK Abbott: Darwin's finches: Population variation and natural selection , Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 73, 1976, pp. 257-261.
  • with P. Grant: Darwin's finches: Population variation and sympatric speciation , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 76, 1979, pp. 2359-2363.
  • with P. Grant: Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the Galápagos , University of Chicago Press, 1989.
  • with P. Grant: Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finches , Science, Volume 296, 2002, pp. 707-711.
  • with P. Grant: Evolution of character displacement in Darwin's finches , Science, Volume 313, 2006, pp. 224-226.
  • with P. Grant: How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches Princeton University Press, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Rosemary Grant. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 27, 2018 .