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Mary Jane West-Eberhard is an American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation. She is also an entomologist notable for her work on the behavior and evolution of social wasps. She is a member both of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 she was elected to be a foreign member of the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.〔(West-Eberhard elected to the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei )〕 She has been a past president (1991) of the Society for the Study of Evolution.〔( Mary Jane West-Eberhard, CHR Vice Chair )〕 She won the 2003 R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work〔(R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work Press release ).〕 for her book ''Developmental Plasticity and Evolution'' (618 pages).〔West-Eberhard M-J. (2003). Developmental plasticity and evolution. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-19-512235-0〕 In the same year she was the recipient of the Sewall Wright Award.〔Zuk M. (2004). 2003 Sewall Wright Award: Mary Jane West‐Eberhard. American Naturalist 163:1, i-ii. 〕 She has been selected as one of the 21 “Leaders in Animal Behavior”.〔Drickamer L. Dewsbury S. (Dec 2009) Leaders in Animal Behaviour: The Second Generation. Cambridge University Press. ()〕 She is engaged in long term research projects at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at the Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica. ==Early life== West-Eberhard’s mother was a primary school teacher, and her father, a small-town businessman, and as parents they encouraged her curiosity. She recalls of her high school that the best scientific training “was an English course on critical reading and writing, taught by the school librarian. Biology class was just a workbook, an enormous disappointment for me.”〔West-Eberhard MJ. (2009). BIO. Evol Dev. 11(1):8-10. PMID 19196328〕 She did all her degrees at the University of Michigan. There she was taught by Richard D. Alexander and had part-time employment in its Museum of Zoology. She records that “I also learned the excitement of being a sleuth in the university libraries where even an undergraduate could explore an idea beyond textbooks and could feel like a pioneer”. She also corresponded with Edward Wilson on trophic eggs in insects, and spent summers at Woods Hole and Cali in Colombia.〔 She did postdoctoral work (1967–1969) at Harvard University with Howard Evans. There she met her husband. She then spent the next ten years (1969–1979) as an associate in biology at the University of Valle. In 1973 she began an association with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Costa Rica which became a full-time employment in 1986. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Jane West-Eberhard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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