Jonathan Losos
Jonathan B. Losos is an American evolutionary biologist. His work has focused 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. Most of his empirical work has involved the evolutionary radiation of lizards in the genus Anolis. Formerly, the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard University, he is now the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, as well as the founding director of the Living Earth , a biodiversity partnership between Washington University, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Zoo.Honors and awards
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018 and has received a number of awards, including the , the , the , the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and the .Works
Losos is the author of two books, and , and has edited a number of others, including , , and .
