Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Staff Scientist
e-mail: mjwe@sent.com
Address: Escuela de Biologia,
Universidad de Costa Rica,
Costa Rica,
Centroamerica
Telephone: +506 2228-0001
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Publications
Publications by Mary Jane West-Eberhard in STRI Bibliography
Research Interests
Development and evolution, phenotypic plasticity and evolution, evolution of social behavior, social insects, biology of social wasps, sexual and social selection.xvzxvxcv
Current Research
Education and Degrees
B.A., University of Michigan, 1963.
Ph. D., University of Michigan, 1967.
Selected Bibliography
1967. Foundress associations in polistine wasps: dominance hierarchies and the evolution of social behavior. Science 157(3796):1584-1585.
1969. The Social Biology of Polistine Wasps. Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. 140:1-101.
1970.THE WASPS. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, vi + 265 pp. (with H. E. Evans).
1975. The evolution of social behavior by kin selection. Quart. Rev. Biol. 50(1):1-33.
1979. Sexual selection, social competition, and evolution. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 51(4):222-234.
1983. Sexual selection, social competition, and speciation. Quart. Rev. Biol. 58(2):155-183.
1986. Alternative adaptations, speciation and phylogeny. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 83:1388-1392.
1987. Flexible strategy and social evolution. In ANIMAL SOCIETIES: THEORIES AND FACTS, Y. Ito, J. L. Brown, and J. Kikkawa, eds., Japan Scientific Societies Press, Ltd., Tokyo, pp. 35-51.
1989. Phenotypic plasticity and the origins of diversity. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20:249-278.
1992. Adaptation, Current Usage. In KEYWORDS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Keller, E. and Lloyd, E. A. (eds.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 13-18.
1992. Behavior and evolution. In MOLDS, MOLECULES, AND METAZOA: Growing Points in Evolutionary Biology. Grant, P. R. and Horn, H. (eds.), Princeton University Press, pp. 57-75.
1996. NATURAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF PAPER WASPS. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (editor, with S. Turillazzi). xiv + 400 pp.
1996. Wasp societies as microcosms for the study of development and evolution. ibid, pp.290-317.
1998. Evolution in the light of developmental and cell biology, and vice versa. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 95:8417-8419. [commentary on "Evolvability"]
2003. DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND EVOLUTION. Oxford University Press, New York, xx + 794 pp.
2005. Howard E. Evans 1919-2002. Biographical Memoirs, Volume 86. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 1-19.
2005. The maintenance of sex as a developmental trap due to sexual selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 80(1):47-53.
2005. Juvenile hormone, reproduction, and worker behavior in the neotropical social wasp Polistes canadensis. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 102(9):3330-3335 (with T. Giray and M. Giovanetti).
2005. Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 102, Suppl. 1:6543-6549.
2005. Phenotypic accommodation: Adaptive innovation due to developmental plasticity. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B ( Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 304B:610-618.
2005. The behavior of the primitively social wasp Montezumia cortesioides Willink (Vespidae, Eumeninae) and the origins of vespid sociality. Ecology Ethology and Evolution 17:51-65.
2005. Using ethics to fight bioterrorism. Science 309:1013-1014. (with P.C. Agre, S. Altman, F.R. Curl and T.N. Wiesel).
2007. Dancing with DNA and flirting with the ghost of Lamarck. Biology & Philosophy 22(3):439-451.
2007. Developmental Plasticity, Evolution and the origins of disease. In Nesse, R.. (ed.), EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE, Henry Steward Talks, London. www.hstalks.com [recorded lecture with power point illustrations, available on CD]
2007. Are genes good markers of biological traits? In BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS. National Research Council Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys. Weinstein, M., Vaupel, J. W. and Wachter, K.W. (editors), National Academies Press, Washington. 175-193.