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A lifetime of lizards
Losos recognized for work on natural selection, evolution Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos received the 2009 Edward Osborne Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists on June 16. The society noted that Losos’ work with anole lizards in the West Indies has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of the roles of natural selection, competition, and niche evolution in shaping assemblages of Anolis species. In May, the University of California Press published Losos’ “Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree” about the biology and adaptive radiation of the genus Anolis. Losos has had a lifelong love affair with reptiles; he described himself in a 2007 article as a “little dinosaur freak” in nursery school who later kept caimans, a Central American relative of the alligator, in his parents’ home. |
