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Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 24 April 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York and a Research Associate on staff at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.[1] His research focuses on speciation and population biology.[2] Futuyma is the author of a widely used undergraduate textbook on evolution and is also known for his work in public outreach,[3] particularly in advocating against creationism.[4]
Futuyma began his career in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in 1969 and was appointed Distinguished Professor in 2001. He served as the chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2002-2003 and as the Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor in that department from 2003-2004 before returning to Stony Brook in 2004.[1]
Futuyma served as the president of the Society for the Study of Evolution in 1987, of the American Society of Naturalists in 1994, and of the American Institute of Biological Sciences in 2008. He has served as the editor of the scientific journals Evolution and Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.[1][5]
Futuyma's research examines speciation and population biology, particularly the evolutionary interactions between herbivorous insects and their plant hosts and the implications for evolution of host specificity.[2]
Futuyma is well known for his success in teaching and public outreach.[3] He is the author of several textbooks, most notably the very widely used authoritative text Evolutionary Biology (in its third edition, published 1998)[6] and a simplified version targeted explicitly to undergraduates, Evolution (in its fourth edition, published 2017).[7] The latter text has been positively reviewed as important to the successful teaching of evolution, though less comprehensive than the former.[8] He has also co-edited a more advanced book composed of edited reviews, Coevolution,[9] with Montgomery Slatkin; it received mixed reviews from those in the field.[10][11]
Futuyma is openly gay. He has said that he was initially surprised at the lack of negative career consequences, and that LGBT visibility is important to progress on gay rights.[17][18] In 1984 he co-authored a scientific paper critical of the evidence available at the time that homosexuality might be genetic.[19]
Futuyma was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1985 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006.[1]
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