Massimo Pigliucci

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Bio

Massimo Pigliucci is Professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolution and of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, NY.

His research is on the evolution of genotype-environment interactions and on the relative roles of constraints and natural selection in evolutionary biology. He also has an interest in epistemology and philosophy of science. He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy of Science from the University of Tennessee.

He has published 96 technical papers, four books on evolutionary biology and two books for the general public.

Pigliucci has won the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. He has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for fundamental studies of genotype by environment interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack.” He is also an editor for the Quarterly Review of Biology and for Biology & Philosophy. He can be reached on the web at www.genotypebyenvironment.org.

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