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Mary Jane West- Eberhard<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Acad\u00e9mico Correspondiente<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Investigadora \u0093Senior\u0094, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute y la Escuela de Biolog\u00eda, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • B.A., University of Michigan (1963).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • M.S., University of Michigan (1964).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Ph. D., University of Michigan (1967).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Mary Jane West- Eberhard enfoca su \u00e1rea de investigaci\u00f3n en el desarrollo y la evoluci\u00f3n, plasticidad fenot\u00edpica y evoluci\u00f3n, evoluci\u00f3n del comportamiento social, insectos sociales, biolog\u00eda de avispas sociales, la selecci\u00f3n sexual y social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Entre los cargos que ha ocupado est\u00e1n los siguientes: Postdoctoral Fellow en Biolog\u00eda, Harvard University (1967-69); Investigadora Asociada, Departamento de Biolog\u00eda, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (1969-1979); Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (1975-present): Senior Scientist [reside en Costa Rica desde 1979]; Presidente de la Sociedad para el Estudio de la Evoluci\u00f3n (1991); Consejera Acad\u00e9mica, National Research Council, Joint Program U. S. y la Academia Mexicana de las Ciencias (1991-1995); Science Board, Santa Fe Institute (1998-2004); Scientific Council, STRI (1999-2004); Consejo Asesor en Ecolog\u00eda y Biolog\u00eda Evolutiva, Princeton University (2002-2006); Consejo Asesor Internacional, Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnolog\u00eda, Costa Rica (2003- ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Adem\u00e1s, es Miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos; Miembro de la Academia Americana de Artes y Ciencias; Miembro extranjero de la Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2005); Miembro de la International Union for the Study of Social Insects; Miembro de la American Society of Naturalists; Miembro de la Sociedad para el Estudio de la Evoluci\u00f3n; Miembro de la International Society of Hymenopterists; Miembro de  la Bombay Natural History Society; Miembro de la International Society of History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology y Miembro de la European Society of Evolutionary Biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ha recibido los siguientes reconocimientos: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Xi; Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Hon.); Profesora Visitante Distinguida, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (1982); National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A. (elegida en 1988); Vice Presidente, Sociedad para el Estudio de la Evoluci\u00f3n (1987-1988); Presidente, Sociedad para el Estudio de la Evoluci\u00f3n (1992); elegida para la Academia Americana de Artes y Ciencias (1996); Miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Costa Rica (2002); Premio Sewell Wright, American Society of Naturalists (2003); Premio Hawkins, American Association of Publishers, el libro acad\u00e9mico m\u00e1s destacado del 2003 por DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND EVOLUTION; Hamilton Lecturer, Int. Society of Behavioral Ecology (2004); Accademia Nationale dei Lincei, Rome (2005); Fellow, Animal Behavior Society (2009). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publicaciones representativas: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2009). A just-so story of my life (A few of the reminiscences that are fit to print). Drickamer, L.C and Dewsbury, D.A. (eds.), Leaders in Animal Behaviour: The Second Generation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [58 pp.].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Agre, P.C., Altman, S., Curl, F.R., West- Eberhard, M. J. y Wiesel, T.N. (2005). Using ethics to fight bioterrorism. Science 309:1013-1014.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Chavarr\u00eda-Pizarro, L. y West- Eberhard, M. J. (2010). The behavior and natural history of Chartergellus, a little known genus of neotropical social wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae, Epiponini). Ecology Ethology & Evolution 22:1-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Smith, J.A.C., West- Eberhard, M. J. y Winter, K. (2011). Photosynthesis, Reorganized. Science 332:311-312.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2003). Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Oxford University Press, NY, xx + 794 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2005). The maintenance of sex as a developmental trap due to sexual selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 80(1):47-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2005). Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 102, Suppl. 1:6543-6549.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2008). Are genes good markers of biological traits? In Biological Indicators, J. Vaupel, K. Wachter, and M. Weinstein (editors), National Academies Press, Washington. pp. 175-193.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2008). Toward a modern revival of Darwin\u0092s theory of evolutionary novelty. Philosophy of Science. 75(5):899-908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    West- Eberhard, M. J. (2009). Darwinism in the 21st Century. Rendiconti Lincei 20(4):297-299 (Springer: Reports, Accademia Nationale di Lincei, Rome). DOI: 10.1007\/s12210-009-0067-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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