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2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Marcus Feldman

Contributed by kjm34 on Feb 24, 2022 - 02:12 PM

The words Marcus Feldman, 2022 Society for the Study of Evolution Lifetime Achievement Award in black text on a light green background next to a photo for Dr. Feldman.


SSE Council is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2022 SSE Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Marcus Feldman. 

Dr. Feldman is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biology, founder and director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, and co-director of the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics at Stanford University. His innovative research has contributed to our understanding of the evolution of recombination and sex, human population genetics, niche construction, and evolutionary theory. With Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Dr. Feldman also developed a new field termed cultural evolution, which studies how genetic and cultural variation can interact and affect one another. Over the course of his career, he has mentored numerous trainees, from high school students to postdocs, and was awarded the Allan V. Cox Medal for Fostering Undergraduate Research at Stanford and  the Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Mentoring and Service Award. In 1970, he co-founded the journal Theoretical Population Biology. He was also the Editor of The American Naturalist from 1984 to 1990. Dr. Feldman was named the Dan David Laureate in Evolution in 2011, and received the Motoo Kimura Prize in Human Evolution in 2016.

 
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