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Jonathan Losos

Jonathan B. Losos (born December 7, 1961, in St. Louis County, Missouri) is an American evolutionary
biologist, herpetologist and ailurologist.

Life
Losos studied biology at Harvard University, from which he received a Bachelor's degree in 1984. Later
on, in 1989, he received a PhD in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley
(Ecomorphological Adaptation in the Genus Anolis). Starting in 1987, he worked as a Teaching assistant
in Berkeley. After receiving his PhD, he moved to the University of California, Davis in 1990 to become
one of the inaugural postdoctoral fellows at the Center for Population Biology (https://cpb.ucdavis.edu/).
Losos then, from 1992 on, was assistant professor at the Washington University in St. Louis, and then
was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1997 and professor in 2001.[1]

His work focuses on a wide range of topics, but he is best known for his studies of convergent evolution
and adaptive radiation, and for experimental studies of evolution in nature.[2] Most of his empirical work
has involved the evolutionary radiation of lizards in the genus Anolis which occur in Central and South
America and on islands in the Caribbean.

From 2000 to 2003 and 2004–2005, Losos was director of Tyson Research Center at Washington
University in St. Louis. In 2006, Losos left Washington University to become the Monique and Philip
Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard University and Professor in the Department
of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, as well as Curator in Herpetology of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology. Losos then returned to Washington University in 2018 to become the William H.
Danforth Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology, as well as the founding
director of the Living Earth Collaborative (https://livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/), a biodiversity
partnership between Washington University, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Zoo.[3]

Honors and awards


Losos has received a number of awards, including the Dobzhansky Prize (http://www.evolutionsociety.or
g/content/society-awards-and-prizes/the-theodosius-dobzhansky-prize.html) in 1991, the David Starr
Jordan Prize (http://www.indiana.edu/~dsjprize/) in 1998, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award (http
s://www.amnat.org/awards.html#Wilson) in 2009, the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 2012, the Sewall
Wright Award (https://www.amnat.org/awards.html#Wright) in 2019,[4] and the Friend of Darwin Award
(https://ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-awards) in 2024.[5]
Losos is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005) and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) and
the American Philosophical Society (https://www.amphilsoc.org/) (2024). In 2016, he received the
Distinguished Herpetologist award of The Herpetologists' League (https://herpetologistsleague.org/).[1]

Works

As author
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles (https://books.go
ogle.com/books?id=SakwDwAAQBAJ). University of California Press. 2011.
ISBN 9780520269842.[6]
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution (https://books.google.com/
books?id=n3djDwAAQBAJ). Penguin. 2018. ISBN 9780525534136.[7]
The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa (https://www.penguinra
ndomhouse.com/books/610619/the-cats-meow-by-jonathan-b-losos/). Penguin. 2023.
ISBN 9781984878700.[8]

As editor
Losos, Jonathan B.; Ricklefs, Robert E., eds. (2009). The Theory of Island Biogeography
Revisited (https://books.google.com/books?id=slwedU4I4JMC). Princeton University Press.
ISBN 9781400831920.
In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field. W.H. Freeman. 2011.
ISBN 9780981519494.
Losos, Jonathan B.; Baum, David A.; Futuyma, Douglas J.; Hoekstra, Hopi E.; Lenski,
Richard E.; Moore, Allen J.; Peichel, Catherine L.; Schluter, Dolph; Whitlock, Michael C.,
eds. (2013). The Princeton Guide to Evolution (https://books.google.com/books?id=_XitAAA
AQBAJ). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400848065.
Losos, Jonathan B.; Lenski, Richard E., eds. (2016). How Evolution Shapes Our Lives:
Essays on Biology and Society (https://books.google.com/books?id=iW6YDwAAQBAJ).
Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691170398.

References
1. "Jonathan Losos" (https://web.archive.org/web/20210921143109/https://lososlab.oeb.harvar
d.edu/people/jonathan-losos). Losos Laboratory. harvard.edu. Archived from the original (htt
ps://lososlab.oeb.harvard.edu/people/jonathan-losos) on 21 September 2021. Retrieved
12 August 2020.
2. Pennisi, Elizabeth (2020-07-30). "Meet Lizard Man, a reptile-loving biologist tackling some
of the biggest questions in evolution" (https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-lizard-ma
n-reptile-loving-biologist-tackling-some-biggest-questions-evolution). Science | AAAS.
Retrieved 2021-06-17.
3. "Sustaining life on Earth | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis" (https://source.w
ustl.edu/2018/04/sustaining-life/). The Source. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
4. "Sewall Wright Award 2019" (https://www.amnat.org/announcements/ANNWrightaward.htm
l). www.amnat.org. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
5. "Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2024 | National Center for Science
Education" (https://ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-and-friend-planet-awards-2024). ncse.ngo.
Retrieved 2024-06-25.
6. Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A. (Summer 2010). "Review of Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree by
Jonathan B. Losos" (https://archive.revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/lessons-lizards).
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.
7. Albert, James (2017-12-27). "Review of Improbable Destinies, Fate, Chance, and the Future
of Evolution" (https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fsysbio%2Fsyx091). Systematic Biology. 67 (2).
Oxford University Press (OUP): 363–365. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx091 (https://doi.org/10.109
3%2Fsysbio%2Fsyx091). ISSN 1063-5157 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1063-5157).
8. Coyne, Jerry A. (May 3, 2023). "Why a wildcat lurks within your sweet Fluffy (review of The
Cat's Meow by Jonathan B. Losos)" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/03/cat
s-evolution-book-meow-losos/). The Washington Post.

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