L. Lacey Knowles is an
ecologist and
evolutionary biologist known for her work with
speciation
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for cladogenesis, the splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within ...
,
sexual selection,
phylogeography, and
evolutionary radiation.
As of 2012, she is a professor at the
University of Michigan and the curator of insects at the university's museum of zoology. She has been an elected member of the councils for the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biology.
Knowles received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
and had a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the
University of Arizona.
Knowles has also served as an associate editor of scientific journals such as
Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Systematic Biology, and Heredity.
She is the author of ''Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects''.
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Living people
American ecologists
Women ecologists
University of Michigan faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)