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Stevan J. Arnold
Birth Date:11 October 1944
Birth Place:Baltimore, Maryland
Spouse:Lynne D. Houck
Children:Hilary GodwinLaura Leibman
Education:B.A.
Ph.D.
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thesis Title:The Evolution of Courtship Behavior in Salamanders. Volumes I and II.
Thesis Url:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34957449_The_Evolution_of_Courtship_Behavior_in_Salamanders
Thesis Year:1972

Stevan James Arnold (born 11 October 1944) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology and was Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles at Oregon State University, Corvallis until his retirement.[1] He has served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Society of Naturalists.[1]

Arnold was elected a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society in 1992[2] and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[3] He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles.[4]

Early life and education

Arnold was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 11 October 1944, and grew up in southern California. He enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962, declared a major in Zoology and immediately began working in the herpetology laboratory at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, under the supervision of Robert C. Stebbins.[5] Graduating from Berkeley in 1966, he took the Organization for Tropical Studies ecology course that summer and began graduate school at the University of Michigan in the fall. He studied the evolution of courtship behavior in salamanders for his doctoral dissertation, supervised by Arnold G. Kluge.[6] [7]

In 1971, he moved back to Berkeley to begin a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship with David B. Wake, launching a new research program on the behavioral ecology of garter snakes.[6]

He is the brother of former baseball player Christopher Paul Arnold.

Career

Arnold joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1973. A year later he moved to the University of Chicago, where he was a faculty member for the next 23 years. During this period, he was especially influenced by his colleagues Michael J. Wade and Russell Lande as his interests moved in the direction of evolutionary quantitative genetics. Those interests continued to develop after he moved to Oregon State University in 1997 as chair of the Department of Zoology. That administrative work ended in 2002, and he became curator of the amphibians and reptiles in the Oregon State Natural History Collections.[1]

Arnold served as the President of Society for the Study of Evolution in 1998, and of the American Society of Naturalists in 2012. He has been the Co-chair of OSU research collections since 1997, where he oversees and supervises research collections at OSU.[6]

Arnold was an Associate Editor of Evolution from 1981 to 1983 and of Theoretical Population Biology from 1988 to 1991. From 2004 to 2009, he was the Director of Oregon State Arthropod Collection.[6]

After his retirement he donated approximately 50,000 specimen snake and amphibian collection assembled with Lynne Houck to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.[8]

Work

Arnold's work has been mainly focused in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics, specifically on evolution of phenotypic traits (body size, morphology, behavior, whole organismal performance) that are affected by many genes. Arnold has also made key contributions to the understanding of how polygenic mutation and inheritance evolve.[4] Those contributions as well as the field as whole are summarized in his book Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics which has a companion website.[9]

Arnold has developed a variety of quantitative methods in evolutionary quantitative genetics. In 1983, he co-authored 'The Measurement of Selection on Correlated Characters', with Russell Lande. The paper has been cited over 4,000 times. He has also developed novel methods to characterize behavioral variation in natural populations,[10] visualize selection surfaces,[11] mathematically characterize mating systems,[12] estimate and interpret sexual isolation,[13] [14] compare inheritance matrices,[15] [16] understand the evolution of quantitative inheritance,[17] and analyze the process of adaptive radiation.[18]

Awards and honors

Selected articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stevan Arnold.
  2. Web site: Fellows of the ABS.
  3. Web site: OSU Zoologist, Honored by American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2009-05-14.
  4. Web site: Stevan Arnold - Google Scholar.
  5. Web site: Berkeley reptile and amphibian expert Robert Stebbins dies at 98. 2001-11-30.
  6. Web site: Stevan Arnold - CV.
  7. Web site: Graduate student experiences at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1966-1972.
  8. Web site: University of Michigan slithers toward history with massive acquisition of jarred snake specimens. AP News. 2023-10-24. 2023-10-23 . Mike . Householder .
  9. Book: Arnold, Stevan J. . Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics . Oxford University Press . 2023 . 9780192859389 . New York . 2023 . English .
  10. Arnold, Stevan J. 1981. “Behavioral variation in natural populations. I. Phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations between chemoreceptive responses to prey in the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans” Evolution 35: 489-509.
  11. Phillips, Patrick C.; Arnold, Stevan J. 1989. “Visualizing multivariate selection” Evolution 43: 1209-1222.
  12. Arnold, Stevan J.; Duvall, David 1994. “Animal mating systems: a synthesis based on selection theory” The American Naturalist 143:317-348.
  13. Arnold, Stevan J.; Verrell, Paul A.; Tilley, Stephen G. 1996. “The evolution of asymmetric sexual isolation: a polygenic model and a test case” Evolution 50:1024-1033.
  14. Hohenlohe, Paul, A.; Arnold, Stevan J. 2010. “The dimensionality of mate choice, sexual isolation and speciation” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 107: 16583-165588.
  15. Phillips, Patrick C.; Arnold, Stevan J. 1999. “Hierarchial comparison of genetic variance-covariance matrices. I. Using the Flury hierarchy” Evolution 53:1506-1515.
  16. Arnold, Stevan J.; Phillips, Patrick C. 1999. “Hierarchial comparison of genetic variance-covariance matrices. II. Coastal-inland divergence in the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans” Evolution 53:1516-1527.
  17. Jones, Adam G.; Bürger, Reinhard; Arnold, Stevan J. 2014. “Epistasis and natural selection shape the mutational architecture of complex traits” Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4709
  18. Hohenlohe, Paul A.; Arnold, Stevan J. 2008. “MIPoD: a hypothesis-testing framework for microevolutionary inference from patterns of divergence” The American Naturalist 171: 366-385.
  19. Web site: F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Science. 6 December 2022 .
  20. Web site: Fitch Award.

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