Biography:Wyatt Anderson
Wyatt Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 27, 1939 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Education | Rockefeller University |
| Known for | Drosophila research |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Anderson |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary biology, genetics |
| Institutions | University of Georgia |
| Thesis | Studies on selection in natural and experimental populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura (1966) |
| Academic advisors | Theodosius Dobzhansky[1] |
Wyatt Wheaton Anderson (born March 27, 1939)[2] is an American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.[3] He is Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Genetics in the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. He was also the dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences from 1992 until he stepped down in 2004.[4][5] He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987,[6] and is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7]
Research
Anderson is known for his research on the evolutionary genetics of Drosophila.[7] In 2012, for example, he co-authored a study with Patricia Adair Gowaty and Yong-Kyu Kim in which they attempted, and failed, to replicate a famous 1948 study by Angus John Bateman. Their results indicated that Bateman was wrong in his conclusions that male Drosophila melanogaster were promiscuous and females were more "choosy" with regard to their mating behaviors.[8][9][10]
Personal life
Anderson is married to Margaret Anderson, a statistician with whom he co-founded the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professorship in the Arts at UGA. The first recipient of this professorship was Frederick Burchinal in 2006. Together, they have 3 children and 4 grandchildren [11]
References
- ↑ Olson, Randy (2015-09-16) (in en). Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story. University of Chicago Press. pp. 82. ISBN 9780226270845. https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkpCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82.
- ↑ "Wyatt W. Anderson". http://www.vi.sanu.ac.rs/English/Clanstvo/Clan.aspx?arg=1446.
- ↑ Vergano, Dan (2013-04-08). "Size indeed matters, suggests male attractiveness study" (in en). USA TODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/08/size-male-attractiveness/2063951/.
- ↑ Dendy, Larry (2004-06-23). "Garnett Stokes named dean of UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences" (in en). http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/040623stokes/.
- ↑ Shearer, Lee (2003-09-26). "Franklin College dean stepping down". http://onlineathens.com/stories/092603/uga_20030926035.shtml#.WcJtUch97b0.
- ↑ "Wyatt Anderson". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/15551.html.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Wyatt Anderson" (in en). http://www.genetics.uga.edu/directory/wyatt-anderson.
- ↑ Gowaty, Patricia Adair; Kim, Yong-Kyu; Anderson, Wyatt W. (2012-07-17). "No evidence of sexual selection in a repetition of Bateman's classic study of Drosophila melanogaster" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (29): 11740–11745. doi:10.1073/pnas.1207851109. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 22689966.
- ↑ King, Barbara J. (2012-12-13). "Promiscuous Males And Choosy Females? Challenging A Classic Experiment" (in en). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2012/12/13/166953517/promiscuous-males-and-choosy-females-challenging-a-classic-experiment.
- ↑ Keim, Brandon (2012-07-10). "Classic study of animal sexuality challenges our traditional values" (in en-GB). WIRED UK. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sexual-values-challenged.
- ↑ "Met Opera star to join UGA faculty". 2006-08-06. http://onlineathens.com/stories/080606/uganews_20060806065.shtml#.WcJwf8h97b0.
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