Mary Jane West-Eberhard
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American theoretical biologist, zoologist and entomologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 waspss.
Mary Jane West-Eberhard's Published Works
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Published Works
- Developmental plasticity and evolution (2003) (4476)
- Phenotypic Plasticity and the Origins of Diversity (1989) (1995)
- Sexual Selection, Social Competition, and Speciation (1983) (1602)
- Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences (2005) (849)
- Sexual selection, social competition and evolution (1979) (571)
- Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease (2009) (404)
- Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality (2011) (402)
- Natural history and evolution of paper-wasps (1996) (384)
- Phenotypic accommodation: adaptive innovation due to developmental plasticity. (2005) (372)
- KIN RECOGNITION IN ANIMALS (1989) (340)
- Alternative adaptations, speciation, and phylogeny (A Review). (1986) (322)
- Catalog of hymenoptera in America North of Mexico (1981) (253)
- Sexual selection, competitive communication and species specific signals in insects (1984) (224)
- The Social Biology of Polistine Wasps (1969) (214)
- Temporary Queens in Metapolybia Wasps: Nonreproductive Helpers Without Altruism? (1978) (186)
- Flexible strategy and social evolution (1987) (158)
- Juvenile hormone, reproduction, and worker behavior in the neotropical social wasp Polistes canadensis. (2005) (155)
- POLYGYNY AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN WASPS (1978) (144)
- Foundress Associations in Polistine Wasps: Dominance Hierarchies and the Evolution of Social Behavior (1967) (142)
- Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
- Darwin's forgotten idea: The social essence of sexual selection (2014) (118)
- Evolution in the light of developmental and cell biology, and vice versa. (1998) (100)
- Sub-Social Behavior in a Burrowing Cricket Anurogryllus Muticus (De Geer) Orthoptera: Gryllidae (1963) (63)
- Nutrition, the visceral immune system, and the evolutionary origins of pathogenic obesity (2018) (54)
- The nature and evolution of swarming in tropical social wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae, Polybiini) (1982) (52)
- Photosynthesis, Reorganized (2011) (49)
- Phylogeny and biogeography of Polistes (1996) (48)
- Alternative adaptations, speciation, and phylogeny (1986) (41)
- Toward a Modern Revival of Darwin’s Theory of Evolutionary Novelty (2008) (35)
- Natural history and behavior of a primitively social wasp,Auplopus semialatus, and its parasite,Irenangelus eberhardi (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) (1988) (33)
- The epigenetical origins of insect sociality (1987) (31)
- Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution (2021) (22)
- Dancing with DNA and Flirting with the Ghost of Lamarck (2007) (21)
- Conflicts between and within the sexes in sexual selection: group report (1987) (20)
- 4. Behavior and Evolution (1992) (19)
- Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica: The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) (1978) (19)
- DOMINANCE RELATIONS IN POLISTES CANADENSIS (L.), A TROPICAL SOCIAL WASP (2013) (18)
- Communication in social wasps: predicted and observed patterns, with a note on the significance of behavioral and ontogenetic flexibility for theories of worker altruism (1982) (15)
- The Maintenance of Sex as a Developmental Trap Due To Sexual Selection1 (2005) (14)
- Scent-trail diversion, a novel defense against ants by tropical social wasps (1989) (13)
- Observations of Xenorhynchium Nitidulum(Fabricius) (Hymenoptera, Eumeninae),a Primitively Social Wasp (1987) (11)
- Behavior of the primitively social wasp Montezumia cortesioides Willink (Vespidae Eumeninae) and the origins of vespid sociality (2005) (11)
- Chartergellus golfitensis West-Eberhard: A new species of Neotropical swarm-founding wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) with notes on the taxonomy of Chartergellus zonatus Spinola (2010) (8)
- Range Extension and Solitary Nest Founding in Polistes Exclamans(Hymenoptera: Vespidae) (1968) (7)
- Modularity as a universal emergent property of biological traits. (2019) (7)
- William Donald Hamilton (2010) (6)
- Behaviour and social evolution of wasps: The communal aggregation hypothesis (1993) (6)
- The inheritance of yield and of fruit and bunch composition characters in the oil palm. An analysis of the NIFOR main breeding programme. (1977) (5)
- Development and selection in adaptive evolution (2002) (5)
- Animal behavior: experimental behavioral ecology and sociobiology. (1986) (5)
- Insights and opportunities in insect social behavior. (2019) (4)
- Prosocial behavior: Theory and research, by Daniel Bar-Tal (1977) (4)
- Are Genes Good Markers of Biological Traits (2008) (4)
- Genetics, Epigenetics, and Flexibility: A Reply to Crozier (1992) (4)
- Book Review:Maternal Effects as Adaptations Timothy A. Mousseau, Charles W. Fox (1999) (3)
- Darwinism in the twenty-first century (2009) (2)
- In memoriam Professor Owain W. Richards 1901–1984 (1985) (2)
- Developmental plasticity, evolution and the origins of disease (2007) (2)
- Mating Systems and Strategies, by Stephen M. Shuster and Michael J. Wade (2004) (2)
- The phenotype strikes back and is out on more than one limbA review of Developmental Plasticity and Evolution (2004) (2)
- Catalog of hymenoptera in America North of Mexico (1979) (2005) (2)
- Current Problems in Sociobiology: An Adaptationist Review@@@Current Problems in Sociobiology. (1983) (1)
- John Tyler Bonner: Remembering a scientific pioneer. (2019) (1)
- Book Review:Nourishment and Evolution in Insect Societies. James H. Hunt, Christine A. Nalepa (1995) (1)
- Howard E. Evans: Known and Little-known Aspects of His Life on the Planet (2004) (1)
- The Pollen Wasps: Ecology and Natural History of the Masarinae.@@@Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps. (1997) (1)
- Leo Pardi (1915–1990) (1994) (1)
- Behavior of the primitively social wasp (2006) (1)
- One Final Word: Sex (2003) (1)
- Book review: Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, by K.V. Krombein, P.D. Hurd, Jr., D.R. Smith, and B.D. Burks (1981) (1)
- Social evolution in insects (1994) (1)
- Howard E. Evans, 1919 2002. A Biographical Memoir (2005) (1)
- Toward a unified theory of social insect caste: Caste and ecology in the social insects, edited by George F. Oster and Edward O. Wilson (1980) (0)
- vice versa Evolution in the light of developmental and cell biology, and (2006) (0)
- Book review: Sociality of wasps. Behaviour and social evolution of wasps: The communal aggregation hypothesis, by Y. Ito (1993) (0)
- : Toward a Unified Theory of Social Insect Caste Reviewed Work ( s ) : Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects (2014) (0)
- The Influence of Ethnic Origin and Family History on Erythrocyte Sodium Content and Flux Rates (1983) (0)
- [Book Review: Mating Systems and Strategies. Monographs in Behavior and Ecology. ] (2004) (0)
- Insect Behavior and Social Evolution (2013) (0)
- Henry R. Hermann (1981) (0)
- Alternative adaptations , speciation , and phylogeny ( A Review ) ( polymorphism / epigenetlc plasticity / macroevolutlon / punctuated equilibria / regulatory evolution (0)
- Book review: Born: Sociobiology, the new synthesis, by Edward 0. Wilson (1976) (0)
- Commentary: On Stephen J. Gould (2002) (0)
- On Stephen Jay Gould (2002) (0)
- CURRENT PROBLEMS IN SOCIOBIOLOGY: AN ADAPTATIONIST REVIEW. (1983) (0)
- Author response for "In the Spotlight—Established Researcher" (2020) (0)
- BIO (2019) (0)
- Review of: [Book Review:] Maternal Effects as Adaptations, by Timothy A. Mousseau Charles W. Fox (1999) (0)
- Mating Systems and Strategies.Monographs in Behavior and Ecology.ByStephen M Shusterand, Michael J Wade.Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $79.50 (hardcover); $35.00 (paper). x + 533 p; ill.; author, word, and taxonomic indexes. ISBN: 0–691–04930–0 (hc); 0–691–04931–9 (pb). 2003. (2004) (0)
- Caring.Willard Gaylin (1978) (0)
- Social Insects, Vol. 1, Henry R. Hermann (Ed.). Academic Press, New York (1979), xv (1981) (0)
- PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND THE ORIGINS OF DIVERSITyl (2002) (0)
- Chemical communication in sexual and social selection (1990) (0)
- ISME Workshop on open questions in molecular evolution (2004) (0)
- Book review: Social Insects Vol. 1, edited by Henry R. Hermann (1981) (0)
- Using ethics to fight bioterrorism. (2005) (0)
- In the Spotlight-Established Researcher. (2020) (0)
- book review (2008) (0)
- Toward a Unified Theory of Social Insect Caste (1979) (0)
- Book review: The selected writings of T.C. Schnierla, edited by Lester R. Aronson; Ethel Tobach, Jay S. Rosenblatt and Daniel S. Lehrman (1972) (0)
- Book review: Caring, by Willard Gaylin (1978) (0)
- Nourishment and evolution in Insect societies, edited by James H. Hunt and Christine A. Nalepa (1995) (0)
- THE QUARTERLY REVIEW of BIJOLOGY (1983) (0)
- Book review: Kin recognition in animals, by David J. C. Fletcher and Charles D. Michener (1989) (0)
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