L. Lacey Knowles | |
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Nationality | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ecology, evolutionary biology |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Website | www |
L. Lacey Knowles is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist known for her work with speciation, sexual selection, phylogeography, and evolutionary radiation.[1] As of 2012, she is a professor at the University of Michigan and the curator of insects at the university's museum of zoology.[2] She has been an elected member of the councils for the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biology.[1] Knowles received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and had a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.[1] Knowles has also served as an associate editor of scientific journals such as Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Systematic Biology, and Heredity.[1][3] She is the author of Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects.[4]