Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Primary Section: 27, Evolutionary Biology Secondary Section: 63, Environmental Sciences and Ecology Membership Type:
Member
(elected 1988)
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Research Interests
My primary interests involve fieldwork on behavior and natural history of tropical social wasps (Vespidae) and primitively social wasps (Eumenidae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae) -- the evolution of social behavior, kin selection, sexual selection, and phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary change (speciation, macroevolution).
