Rosemary Grant

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

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 in 1964 /65. Yale University and from 1973 to 1977 at McGill University 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 ( Lecturer ). From 1997 she was a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton in the rank of professor. In 2008 she retired.

Grant undertook with her husband Peter Raymond Grant long-term field studies over 35 years in one since Charles Darwin classical object of evolutionary biology, Darwin 's finches on the Galapagos Islands. They showed the rapid evolutionary change of phenotype in these finches.

In 1998 she received the EO Wilson Naturalist Award, 2002, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society, the 2005 Balzan Prize for Population Biology, 2008, the Darwin - Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society in 2009 and the Kyoto Prize.

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

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

Writings

• 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, p 257-261.
• With P. Grant: Darwin's finches: Population variation and sympatric speciation, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, Volume 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.