Joan Roughgarden was born on 13 March 1946 and is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist.
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Joan Roughgarden has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon.
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Joan Roughgarden received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with highest honors from University of Rochester in 1968 and later a Ph.
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In 1998, Roughgarden came out as transgender and changed her name to Joan, making a coming out post on her website on her 52nd birthday.
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Joan Roughgarden founded and directed the Earth Systems Program at Stanford and has received awards for service to undergraduate education.
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Together with her student, Steve Gaines, Joan Roughgarden showed that these interspecific interactions were most important in intertidal localities and communities with a high density of barnacles, such as those Connell and others had studied in Scotland.
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The book is titled as a response to the popular book, The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, which expounds what Joan Roughgarden describes a "neo-Spencerian" view of nature "red in tooth and claw" in which competition and conflict dominate.
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Joan Roughgarden has written on the relationship between Christianity and science.
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Joan Roughgarden opposes creationism and intelligent design, but asserts her belief in God's involvement in evolution.
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Joan Roughgarden was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium in 2006.
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Together with other proponents of the holobiont concept, Joan Roughgarden wrote a 2018 review of the topic in which they examined the evidence for the holobiont as a biological entity.
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Joan Roughgarden followed this review with two papers that further fleshed out her model of holobiont evolution.
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Joan Roughgarden calls this phenomenon "collective inheritance" as opposed to lineal Mendelian inheritance.
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Joan Roughgarden has served as associate editor of several academic journals, including Philosophy and Theory in Biology, American Naturalist, Oecologia, and Theoretical Population Biology.
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Joan Roughgarden has served on the Nonprofit Organization Board for the Oceanic Society, the EPA Science Advisory Board Committee on Valuating the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services, and the science advisory boards of the Pacific Ocean Conservation Network, and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.