Patricia Adair Gowaty

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Patricia Adair Gowaty is an American

evolutionary biologist. She received her B.A. in biology at Tulane University and her PhD in zoology at Clemson University in 1980. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

Gowaty is known for her many articles about human and animal behavior and evolution. She is author and editor of a book that seeks to combine feminist theory and Darwinian evolutionary biology.[2] She has also written about the effects of and importance of rape in understanding human evolution.[3] Her recent research has focused on the concept of reproductive compensation in population genetics.[4][5]

In 2012 Gowaty and colleagues reported[6] a precise replication of Angus Bateman's classic experiment on sexual selection in Drosophila. The study showed that Bateman's methodology was flawed. Once these flaws are accounted for, the experimental data did not support his conclusions.[7]

Gowaty is married to biologist Stephen P. Hubbell, with whom she has co-authored many journal articles about ecology and evolutionary biology.[8]

References

  1. ^ "UCLA Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology". Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  2. ISBN 0-412-07361-7
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  3. ISBN 0-262-20143-7
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  4. PMID 18564347
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  5. PMID 17848509
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  6. PMID 22689966
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  7. ^ University of California - Los Angeles (26 June 2012). "Biologists reveal potential 'fatal flaw' in iconic sexual selection study". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  8. ^ "Research Magazine". uga.edu.


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