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Stephen C. Stearns
American biologist (born 1946)
Stephen C. Stearns (born December 12, 1946, in Kapaau, Hawaii and raised in Hawi, Hawaii)[1] is an American biologist, and the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus at Yale University. He is known for his work in life history theory and evolutionary medicine.[2]
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| Born | December 12, 1946 (1946-12-12) (age 77) Kapaau, Hawaii, United States |
| Alma mater | Yale University, University of Wisconsin, University of British Columbia |
| Known for | Life history evolution, evolutionary medicine |
| Spouse | Beverly Peterson Stearns |
| Children | Justin K. Stearns, Jason Stearns |
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| Fields | Evolutionary biology, life history theory, evolutionary medicine |
| Institutions | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University |
| Thesis | A comparison of the evolution and expression of life history traits in stable and fluctuating environments: Gambusia affinis in Hawaii (1975) |
| Doctoral students | Dieter Ebert |
| Website | stearnslab |
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- BA Yale University 1967
- MSc University of Wisconsin, Madison 1971
- PhD University of British Columbia 1975
- Miller Fellow University of California, Berkeley 1978
- Helped to found the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in 1987.[3] He later served on its council and as its president.
- Founded the Journal of Evolutionary Biology,[4] ESEB's main journal,[3] served as its first managing editor from 1986 to 1991, and later served on its Editorial Board.[3]
- With Tim Clutton-Brock, founded the Tropical Biology Association in 1991.[5]
- Founded the online open-access journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health in 2013.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 2007: Fellow, European Society for Evolutionary Biology.[8]
- 2011: DeVane Medal for distinction in undergraduate teaching, Yale University Phi Beta Kappa.[9]
- 2011–2012: Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2015: Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zurich.[10]
- 2021: Yale College Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize
- 1978–1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Reed College
- 1983–2000: Professor of Zoology, University of Basel.[11]
- 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
- 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[12]
- Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (first author Beverly Peterson Stearns, Yale University Press 1999) ISBN 978-0-300-07606-6[13][14]
- Evolution, an Introduction (with Rolf Hoekstra, Oxford University Press 2000, 2nd Ed 2005) ISBN 978-0-19-925563-4[15]
- Evolutionary Medicine (with Ruslan Medzhitov, Sinauer 2016) ISBN 978-1-60535-260-2
- Papers
- Stearns, Stephen C. (1976), "Life-history tactics: A review of the ideas", The Quarterly Review of Biology, 51 (1): 3–47, doi:10.1086/409052, JSTOR 2825234, PMID 778893, S2CID 37813334.
- Stearns, Stephen C. (1977), "The evolution of life history traits: A critique of the theory and a review of the data" (PDF), Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 8: 145–171, doi:10.1146/annurev.es.08.110177.001045, JSTOR 2096724.
- Stearns, Stephen C.; Koella, Jacob C. (1986), "The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits: Predictions of reaction norms for age and size at maturity" (PDF), Evolution, 40 (5): 893–913, doi:10.2307/2408752, JSTOR 2408752, PMID 28556219.
- Stearns, Stephen C. (1989), "The evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity", BioScience, 39 (7): 436–445, doi:10.2307/1311135, JSTOR 1311135.
- Stearns, S. C. (1989), "Trade-offs in life-history evolution" (PDF), Functional Ecology, 3 (3): 259–268, Bibcode:1989FuEco...3..259S, doi:10.2307/2389364, JSTOR 2389364.
- Stephen, Bijan (February 25, 2013). "Stearner Stuff". The New Journal. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- "Noted zoologist Stephen Stearns is new Bass Professor", Yale Bulletin and Calendar, 29 (1), September 1, 2000.
- Stearns, S. C. (2008), "How the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology were founded", Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21 (6): 1449–1451, doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01626.x, PMID 19018942, S2CID 45515198.
- "The TBA Council". Tropical Biology Association. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- "About the Journal". Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. Oxford Academic. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- "Welcome | Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology". eeb.yale.edu.
- "Distinguished Fellows". European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- Lim, Tse Yang (Spring 2011), "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", Inside the Classroom: Undergraduate Teaching at Yale.
- "Ständiges Gastrecht an der Alma Mater für Regine Aeppli". April 27, 2015 – via NZZ.
- "News: Noted zoologist Stephen Stearns is new Bass Professor". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 29 (1). September 1, 2000. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
- Behnke, J. M. (January 7, 2009). "Review: Evolution in Health and Disease, 2nd edition, edited by S. C. Sterns and J. C. Koella". Parasit Vectors. 2: 4. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-2-4. PMC 2628889.
- Dudgeon, D. (January 2001). "Review: Watching, from the edge of extinction by B. P. Stearns & S. C. Stearns". Porcupine! Newsletter of the Dept. Of Ecology & Biodiversity, U. Of Hong Kong (22): 28–29.
- Stearns, B. P.; Stearns, S. C. (2010). "Still watching, from the edge of extinction". BioScience. 60 (2): 141–146. doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.2.8. S2CID 85692844.
- Zimmerman, William F. (June 2007). "Review: Evolution: An Introduction, 2nd edition by Stephen C. Stearns and Rolf Hoekstra". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 82 (2): 149. doi:10.1086/519589.