Douglas J. Futuyma

Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 1942, New York City) is an American biologist.

Futuyma graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University, and took his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves. He was Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is now a distinguished professor of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Futuyma is the author of the widely used textbook Evolutionary Biology and Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution, an introduction to the creation-evolution controversy. His most recent textbook, Evolution, was published early in 2005 as an introductory textbook for undergraduates. Futuyma is also the co-author with M. Slatkin of "Coevolution".

Futuyma has been president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, and of the American Society of Naturalists. He was the editor of Evolution and the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

He was awarded the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Australia. He was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States on 25 April 2006.

Along with his talents regarding evolution, Futuyma is also a respected field biologist.

Additional recommended knowledge

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Essential Laboratory Skills Guide

Publications

Books

• Futuyma, D.J. 1979. Evolutionary Biology. 1st ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-199-6
• Futuyma, D.J. 1983. Science on Trial: the Case for Evolution. 1st ed. Pantheon Books, New York. ISBN 0-394-52371-7
• Futuyma, D.J. & M. Slatkin, eds. 1983. Coevolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-228-3
• Futuyma, D.J. 1986. Evolutionary Biology. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-188-0
• Futuyma, D.J. 1995. Science on Trial: the Case for Evolution. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-184-8
• Futuyma, D.J. 1998. Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. (dated 1998, published 1997) ISBN 0-87893-189-9
• Futuyma, D.J. 2005. Evolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-187-2
• Futuyma, D.J Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics: (Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) in 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Papers

• 1984: with S. J. Risch "Sexual orientation, sociobiology, and evolution" (Journal of Homosexuality, 9, 157-168)
• 1996: with C. Mitter. "Insect-plant interactions: The evolution of component communities" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 351:1361–1366)
• 1995: "The uses of evolutionary biology" (Science 267: 41–42)
• 1995: with M.C. Keese and D.J. Funk. "Genetic constraints on macroevolution: The evolution of host affiliation in the leaf beetle genus Ophraella" (Evolution 49:797–809)
• 1992: with M. C. Keese. "Evolution and coevolution of plants and phytophagous arthropods" (in G.A. Rosenthal and M.R. Berenbaum (edd) Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites (2nd ed.) Academic Press, NY. pp 439–475)
• 1987: "On the role of species in anagenesis" (Amer. Natur. 130: 465–473)

References and external links

• Douglas J. Futuyma — a short biography from the State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Hypotheses, Facts, and the Nature of Science — a philosophy of science article by Futuyma