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Joan Roughgarden | |
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| Born | 13 March 1946 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester |
| Known for | Critiques of sexual selection, theory of social selection |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ecology and evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Boston Stanford University Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology |
| Thesis | Implications of density dependent natural selection (1971) |
Joan Roughgarden (born 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon. She has more recently become known for her rejection of sexual selection, her theistic evolutionism, and her work on holobiont evolution.