Marymegan Daly is an American

evolutionary biologist Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biol ...

and academic administrator who is the associate dean of undergraduate education at the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences. She is a professor in the department of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology.

Life

Daly earned a B.S. (1995) and a Ph.D. (2000) from

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by ...

. Daly joined the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and is a professor in the department of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology. She specializes in animal

systematics Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). Phy ...

and ecology. On December 20, 2018, she became the associate dean of undergraduate education. In 2023, she was elected a fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

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