The Problem of the Evolution of Sex
Faculty Discussion Supper with Evolutionary
Biologist Michael Wade
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 *
6-7:30 p.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP
REQUIRED
 Acknowledged as "one of the most
creative intellectual forces in
evolutionary biology" and "one of the most significant evolutionary
biologists of his generation," Michael
Wade is
a Distinguished
Professor
of Biology and the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at
Indiana
University. The former chair of the University of Chicago's Department
of Ecology and Evolution, he joined IU's faculty in 1998. Wade is the
recipient of the American Society of Naturalists' 2009 Sewall Wright
Award and was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 2008. An important contributor to the development of the
Chicago
School of Evolutionary Genetics theory, Wade is an expert in sexual
selection (the effect of natural selection on mating and reproductive
traits). Wade has been on the editorial board of several journals,
including Evolution and American Naturalist, and has
written more than
130 articles and books, including, "Measuring Sexual Selection" (1987),
Mating Systems and Mating Strategies (2003), and "What Are
Maternal
Effects (And What Are They Not)?" (2009).
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