Joan Roughgarden
| Joan Roughgarden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 March 1946 Paterson, New Jersey |
| Other names | Jonathan Roughgarden |
| Residence | Wili Road, Kapa'a, Hawaii |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Institutions |
University of Massachusetts Boston Stanford University Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester |
| Thesis | Implications of density dependent natural selection (1971) |
| Known for | Evolutionary theory on sex |
Joan Roughgarden (born Jonathan Roughgarden on 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She is well known for her theistic evolutionism and critical studies on Charles Darwin's theory of sexual selection.
Roughgarden was born in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of Rochester in 1968 and later a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1971. In 1998, Roughgarden transitioned from male to female, and officially changed her legal name to Joan on her 52nd birthday on 13 March.
Roughgarden worked as an instructor and Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1970. In 1972 she joined the faculty of the Department of Biology at Stanford University. After becoming full professor she retired in 2011, and became Emeritus Professor. She founded and directed the Earth Systems Program at Stanford and has received awards for service to undergraduate education. In 2012 she moved to Hawaii, where she became an adjunct professor at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. In her academic career, Roughgarden advised 20 Ph.D and 15 postdoctoral students.
Roughgarden has authored books and over 180 scientific articles. In addition to a textbook on ecological and evolutionary theory in 1979, Roughgarden has carried out ecological field studies with Caribbean lizards and with barnacles and their larvae along the California coast. In 2004 Roughgarden published a challenge to sexual selection titled Evolution's Rainbow: a critique of Darwin's sexual selection theory based on instances in which animals do not follow traditional sex roles where the male attempts to impress the female, and the female chooses her mate. It also contains a literature survey on unexpected sexual behavior in many species of animals.
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