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Stephen C. Stearns

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Evolutionary Biology

#45

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#58

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#28

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Ecology

#73

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#84

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#43

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Stephen C. Stearns's Degrees

PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of British Columbia
Bachelors Biology Reed College

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According to Wikipedia, Stephen C. Stearns is an American biologist, and the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus at Yale University. He is known for his work in life history theory and evolutionary medicine.

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The Evolution of Life Histories (1992) (5427)
Life-History Tactics: A Review of the Ideas (1976) (3438)
Trade-offs in life-history evolution (1989) (2305)
THE EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS: PREDICTIONS OF REACTION NORMS FOR AGE AND SIZE AT MATURITY (1986) (1247)
The Evolution of Life History Traits: A Critique of the Theory and a Review of the Data (1977) (1064)
The Evolutionary Significance of Phenotypic PlasticityPhenotypic sources of variation among organisms can be described by developmental switches and reaction norms (1989) (1023)
Life history evolution: successes, limitations, and prospects (2000) (637)
Genome-Wide Transcript Profiles in Aging and Calorically Restricted Drosophila melanogaster (2002) (562)
Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population bottleneck (1994) (401)
The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences (1987) (356)
A new view of life-history evolution (1980) (339)
A new view of life-history evolution (1980) (339)
The influence of size and phylogeny on patterns of covariation among life-history traits in the mammals (1983) (338)
Experimental evolution of aging, growth, and reproduction in fruitflies. (2000) (337)
Evolution Illuminated: Salmon and Their Relatives (2003) (330)
Senescence in a Bacterium with Asymmetric Division (2003) (302)
Evolution in Health and Disease (2008) (236)
The Evolution of Life-History Traits in Mosquitofish Since Their Introduction to Hawaii in 1905: Rates of Evolution, Heritabilities, and Developmental Plasticity (1983) (230)
FITNESS SENSITIVITY AND THE CANALIZATION OF LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS (1994) (220)
On inference in ecology and evolutionary biology: the problem of multiple causes (1982) (218)
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity (2009) (216)
The effects of phenotypic plasticity on genetic correlations. (1991) (212)
Making evolutionary biology a basic science for medicine (2010) (207)
The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health (2008) (203)
Measuring selection in contemporary human populations (2010) (185)
A NATURAL EXPERIMENT IN LIFE‐HISTORY EVOLUTION: FIELD DATA ON THE INTRODUCTION OF MOSQUITOFISH (GAMBUSIA AFFINIS) TO HAWAII (1983) (166)
HYPOTHESES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF EXCESS ZYGOTES: MODELS OF BET‐HEDGING AND SELECTIVE ABORTION (1989) (165)
The differential genetic and environmental canalization of fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster (1995) (158)
The Role of Development in the Evolution of Life Histories (1982) (157)
QUANTITATIVE PREDICTIONS OF DELAYED MATURITY (1981) (142)
Natural selection in a contemporary human population (2010) (140)
Evolution: An Introduction (2000) (138)
THE GENETIC BASIS OF DIFFERENCES IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS AMONG SIX POPULATIONS OF MOSQUITOFISH (GAMBUSIA AFFINIS) THAT SHARED ANCESTORS IN 1905 (1983) (136)
Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept (2017) (136)
The Effects of Size and Phylogeny on Patterns of Covariation in the Life History Traits of Lizards and Snakes (1984) (133)
Phylogenetic approaches in ecology (1990) (131)
Evolutionary medicine: its scope, interest and potential (2012) (130)
MALADAPTATION IN A MARGINAL POPULATION OF THE MOSQUITO FISH, GAMBUSIA AFFINIS (1980) (129)
Reaction norms for developmental time and weight at eclosion in Drosophila mercatorum (1988) (118)
The evolution of life histories in spatially heterogeneous environments: Optimal reaction norms revisited (1993) (116)
Medicine Needs Evolution (2006) (107)
Evolutionary perspectives on health and medicine (2010) (102)
Intraspecific competition between co-infecting parasite strains enhances host survival in African trypanosomes. (2009) (99)
DECLINE IN OFFSPRING VIABILITY AS A MANIFESTATION OF AGING IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2001) (97)
Daniel Bernoulli (1738): evolution and economics under risk (2000) (96)
THE RESPONSES OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER TO ARTIFICIAL SELECTION ON BODY WEIGHT AND ITS PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN TWO LARVAL FOOD ENVIRONMENTS (1991) (93)
Evolutionary Insights Should Not Be Wasted (1987) (92)
Evolution in Health and Disease: Work in Progress (2001) (84)
The selection-arena hypothesis. (1987) (83)
CORRELATED RESPONSES IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS TO ARTIFICIAL SELECTION FOR BODY WEIGHT IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (1992) (82)
The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection (2018) (79)
Association of Long-Term Risk of Respiratory, Allergic, and Infectious Diseases With Removal of Adenoids and Tonsils in Childhood (2018) (75)
Effects of assay conditions in life history experiments with Drosophila melanogaster (2001) (71)
LIFE‐HISTORY CORRELATES OF EVOLUTION UNDER HIGH AND LOW ADULT MORTALITY (2000) (71)
Genetics of life history in Daphnia magna. I. Heritabilities at two food levels (1993) (69)
Environmentally Contingent Variation: Phenotypic Plasticity and Norms of Reaction (2005) (68)
Constraints on the coevolution of contemporary human males and females (2012) (67)
The masterpiece of nature: The evolution and genetics of sexuality: By Graham Bell. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, $45.00, hardback (1984) (64)
On the use of “life history theory” in evolutionary psychology (2020) (62)
Comparative and experimental approachesto the evolutionary ecology of development (1989) (61)
Natural Selection and Fitness, Adaptation and Constraint (1986) (59)
The Naturalist in a World of Genomics (2003) (59)
Experimental evolution of aging in a bacterium (2007) (58)
Phenotypic plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Effect on phenotypic and environmental correlations (1993) (57)
Genetic loci associated with coronary artery disease harbor evidence of selection and antagonistic pleiotropy (2016) (50)
Progress on canalization (2002) (48)
P-element inserts in transgenic flies: a cautionary tale (1997) (46)
The evolutionary links between fixed and variable traits (1993) (46)
On Measuring Fluctuating Environments: Predictability, Constancy, and Contingency (1981) (44)
Life history theory and human development. (2008) (41)
EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: A PRESCRIPTION FOR ALL BIOLOGY STUDENTS (2012) (39)
Phenotypic plasticity for life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster. III. Effect of the environment on genetic parameters. (1992) (38)
Light responses of Daphnia pulex (1975) (37)
Opposite risk patterns for autism and schizophrenia are associated with normal variation in birth size: phenotypic support for hypothesized diametric gene-dosage effects (2014) (34)
Issues in evolutionary medicine (2005) (34)
HERITABILITY ESTIMATES FOR AGE AND LENGTH AT MATURITY IN TWO POPULATIONS OF MOSQUITOFISH THAT SHARED ANCESTORS IN 1905 (1984) (32)
Genetic links between post-reproductive lifespan and family size in Framingham (2013) (31)
The Demographic Transition Influences Variance in Fitness and Selection on Height and BMI in Rural Gambia (2013) (31)
ARE WE STALLED PART WAY THROUGH A MAJOR EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION FROM INDIVIDUAL TO GROUP? (2007) (29)
Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (1999) (29)
Why sex evolved and the differences it makes. (1987) (28)
LIFE-HISTORY CORRELATES OF EVOLUTION UNDER HIGH AND LOW ADULT MORTALITY (2000) (25)
Does impressive progress on understanding mechanisms advance life history theory (2011) (23)
The Emergence of Evolutionary and Community Ecology as Experimental Sciences (2015) (22)
Diagnosing senescence: inferring evolutionary causes from phenotypic patterns can be misleading (1995) (21)
Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students (1987) (20)
The experimental evolution of aging in fruitflies (1998) (18)
The effects of enhanced expression of elongation factor EF-1α on lifespan inDrosophila melanogaster (1993) (18)
The importance of the timescale of the fitness metric for estimates of selection on phenotypic traits during a period of demographic change. (2016) (18)
Effects on Fitness Components of Enhanced Expression of Elongation Factor EF-1α in Drosophila melanogaster. I. The Contrasting Approaches of Molecular and Population Biologists (1993) (17)
Introducing Evolutionary Thinking For Medicine (2010) (16)
Frontiers in Molecular Evolutionary Medicine (2019) (15)
EFFECTS ON FITNESS COMPONENTS OF P‐ELEMENT INSERTS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER: ANALYSIS OF TRADE‐OFFS (1996) (15)
What mechanistic insights can or cannot contribute to life history evolution: An exchange between Stearns, Heyland, and Flatt (2011) (15)
Comparison of the evolution and expression of life history traits in stable and fluctuating environments : Gambusia Affinis in Hawaii (1975) (15)
The Structure of Food Webs (1982) (14)
The evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction: The solutions proposed for a longstanding problem (1990) (14)
Theoretical biology: Safeguards and spurs (2003) (12)
The Concept of Phenotypic Plasticity and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Life History Traits (2015) (12)
The evolution of sex and the role of sex in evolution (1985) (10)
On Designing Courses in Evolutionary Medicine (2011) (10)
Interpopulational Differences in Reproductive Traits of Neoheterandria tridentiger (Pisces: Poeciliidae) in Panamá@@@Interpopulational Differences in Reproductive Traits of Neoheterandria tridentiger (Pisces: Poeciliidae) in Panama (1978) (10)
Variational models of life-histories: When do solutions exist? (1982) (9)
Measuring selection in contemporary human populations (2011) (8)
How Much of the Phenotype is Necessary to Understand Evolution at the Level of the Gene (1984) (7)
LESS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE1 (2002) (7)
Phenotypic plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Epigenetic mechanisms and the scaling of variances (1993) (7)
Introduction to the Symposium: The Inter-face of Life-History Evolution, Whole-Organism Ontogeny, and Quantitative Genetics (1983) (7)
Gene expression regulates metabolite homeostasis during the Crabtree effect: Implications for the adaptation and evolution of Metabolism (2020) (6)
Still Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (2010) (6)
The Naturalist in a World of Genomics ( An American Society of Naturalists Symposium Paper ) * (2003) (6)
A Case Study in Experimental Evolution: Reproductive Effort and Induced Responses in Drosophila melanogaster (1996) (5)
Reply to Etges (1982) (5)
Ricklefs, R. E. and Schluter, D. (eds.). 1993. Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press, paper $27.95. 414 pp. ISBN: 0‐226‐71823‐9. (1994) (5)
Organismic Evolution: The Interaction of Microevolutionary and Macroevolutionary Processes (1986) (5)
George Christopher Williams 1926–2010 (2010) (4)
Evolutionary Interpretations of the Diversity of Reproductive Health and Disease (1999) (4)
Models in Evolutionary Ecology (1984) (4)
Endless forms most beautiful and wonderful (2009) (4)
Editorial: evolutionary medicine special issue (2009) (3)
Clinical adaptationists: Evolutionary Medicine edited by Wenda R. Trevathan, E.O. Smith and James J. McKenna (2000) (2)
Ridley, Mark. Evolution. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993. £19.50. viii + 670 pp., illus. ISBN: 0‐632‐03 481‐5. (1993) (2)
Hoffman, A. A. and Parsons, P. A. 1991. Evolutionary Genetics and Environmental Stress. Oxford University Press. paper .ix + 284 pp., illus. ISBN: 0-19-854081-7. (1994) (2)
Decision letter: Pervasive duplication of tumor suppressors in Afrotherians during the evolution of large bodies and reduced cancer risk (2021) (2)
Measuring Fluctuating Environments (1981) (2)
A tractable model system in which social deprivation early in life leads to behaviour-mediated functional sterility: The mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis (1983) (2)
Editorial: The new shape of the journal (1990) (2)
Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior: "The Galapagos Project" (2009) (2)
MODELS OF BET-HEDGING AND SELECTIVE ABORTION (1989) (2)
Life History Deja Vu@@@The Evolution of Life Histories: Theory and Analysis.@@@The Evolution of Life Histories. (1994) (2)
Selection on Humans in Cities (2020) (2)
Evolutionary Thinking in the Medical Sciences (2006) (2)
III.1. Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Fitness: Overview (2013) (2)
Theory and Data in the Evolutionary Approach to Human Behavior (2006) (2)
The evolution of life histories heterogeneous environments" norms revisited in spatially optimal reaction (1993) (2)
Reply to Vitt and Seigel (1985) (2)
Increased risk of many early-life diseases after surgical removal of adenoids and tonsils in childhood (2017) (2)
Demonstrating unselfishness: They haven't done it yet (1989) (1)
Mating systems and parental care [Principles of evolution, ecology and behavior] (2011) (1)
Outstanding research opportunities at the interface of evolution and medicine (2017) (1)
III.10. Evolution of Reaction Norms (2013) (1)
Adaptations of colonizers: the evolutionary biology of colonizing species. (1984) (1)
The Role of Development in Macroevolution (1983) (1)
The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection (2018) (1)
LESS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE 1 (2002) (1)
How the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology were founded (2008) (1)
Progress and change (2017) (1)
Eldredge, Niles. 1991. The Miner's Canary: Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction. Princeton University Press, paperback edition 1994. $12.95. xviii + 246 pp. ISBN: 0‐691‐03655‐1. (1995) (0)
Author's index (2004) (0)
The Latest on the Best. Essays on Evolution and Optimality. Based on a Conference Held at Stanford University, California, April 1985.John Dupre (1988) (0)
Evolutionary Game Theory: Fighting and Contests (2009) (0)
Adaptations of Colonizers: The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species . Peter A. Parsons. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1983. x, 262 pp., illus,. $29.95. (1984) (0)
Editorial (1988) (0)
Population Growth: Density Effects (2009) (0)
Book Review:Mathematical Models for Environmental Problems. C. A. Brebbia (1977) (0)
Evolution and medicine: from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist (2007) (0)
Explaining evolution to a skeptical audience (1999) (0)
support for hypothesized diametric gene-dosage effects associated with normal variation in birth size: phenotypic Opposite risk patterns for autism and schizophrenia are (2014) (0)
Majumder, P. P. (ed.). 1993. Human Population Genetics. A Centennial Tribute to J. B. S. Haldane. Plenum Press, $85.00. ix + 348 pp. ISBN 0‐306‐44572‐7. (1994) (0)
COGENE 88 at Basel. (1988) (0)
COGENE 88 at Basel (1988) (0)
LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS (1994) (0)
This glass is half fullA review by S. C. Stearns (1997) (0)
Misspelled Surname in Byline and Author Contributions. (2018) (0)
Editorial (1988) (0)
Editorial: Current Status of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (1992) (0)
The Path to Life History Evolution (2014) (0)
Editorial (1990) (0)
Limitations to the Association of Risk of Airway Disease With Removal of Adenoids and Tonsils in Children-Reply. (2018) (0)
Wilkins, A. S. 1993. Genetic Analysis of Animal Development. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Liss, New York. Price: $99.95 (cloth), $54.95 (paper). 546p. ISBN: 0-471-50271-5. (1993) (0)
Frontiers in Molecular Evolutionary Medicine (2019) (0)
Age-specific selection (1995) (0)
Provine, W. B. 1986. Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology. The University of Chicago Press, xvi + 545 pp. £14.25, $20.75 (1990) (0)
Editorial: What we aim for (2015) (0)
Accounts of Species on the Threshold of Extinction@@@Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (2000) (0)
NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS (2009) (0)
Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change.Rudolf A. Raff , Thomas C. Kaufman (1992) (0)
Outstanding research opportunities at the interface of evolution and medicine (2017) (0)
Ricci, C., Snell, T. W., and King, C. E. (eds.) 1989. Developments in Hydrobiology. Rotifer Symposium V. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 433 p. US $185.00, £116.00 (1991) (0)
Editorial (2012) (0)
Editorial: The Role of an Editor (1989) (0)
Editorial (1992) (0)
Saylor.org BIO102: Stephen Stearns' "How Selection Changes the Genetic Composition of a Popultion" (2011) (0)
Saylor.org BIO102: Stephen Stearns' "Species and Speciation" (2011) (0)
Editorial: Annual Report, 1988 (1988) (0)
Selection misconstrued (1984) (0)
Editorial (1989) (0)
Changes in selection on height and BMI during the demographic transition: the case of rural Gambia (2013) (0)
Editorial (1992) (0)
Research Notes (2016) (0)
Schindewolf, O. H. 1994. Basic Questions in Paleontology: Geologic Time, Organic Evolution, and Biological Systematics. University of Chicago Press. Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould, Afterword by Wolf‐Ernst Reif. $34.50 paper. xviii + 467 pp., illus. Reprint of the 1950 original. (1994) (0)
The Evolution of Sex (2009) (0)
Epigenetic reaction norms: possible but not inevitable (2018) (0)
Saylor.org BIO102: Stephen Stearns' "The Fossil Record and Life's History" (2011) (0)
Editors’ acknowledgements (1998) (0)
Editorial (1991) (0)
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Rapid Evolution in Ecological Time (1983) (0)
Editorial (2013) (0)
Buss, L. W. 1988. The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton University Press, $40.00, pbk. $12.95 (1989) (0)
Hecht, M. K., B. Wallace, and G. T. Prance (eds.). 1987. Evolutionary Biology Vol. 21. Plenum Press, NY. 434 pp. (1988) (0)
Pearl Memorial Lecture Issues in Evolutionary Medicine (2005) (0)
Encyclopedia entries on: albedo, anemometer, biosphere, cavitation, carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate zones, humidity, irrigation, mineral nutrients, mountain environments, radiation, SI units, SVATS, thermometry, wind, windbr (1998) (0)
Editorial (1988) (0)
Saylor.org BIO102: Stephen Stearns' "Key Events in Evolution" (2011) (0)
Exploring the wet machinery (1982) (0)
141 Still Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (2016) (0)
Age‐Specificity in Genetics and Life‐Histories (1981) (0)
Evolution in a Contemporary Human Population: Intersexual Constraints and Costs of Reproduction (2012) (0)

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