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Books
Papers with PDFs
Original research articles in peer
reviewed journals
Review articles
Other publications
Papers written by students under my
supervision
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 Stearns,
S.C. (Editor). 1987. The
Evolution of Sex and its Consequences. Birkhaeuser
Verlag, Basel. 350 p. |
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 Stearns,
S.C. 1992. The
Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford University
Press. 248 p. |
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 Stearns,
S.C. (ed.). 2007. Evolution
in health and disease, 2nd Edition. Oxford
University press, Oxford. 368 p. |
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 Stearns,
B.P. & S.C. Stearns. 1999. Watching,
from the edge of extinction. Yale University Press,
New Haven. [also in a Japanese edition] |
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 Stearns,
S.C. & R. Hoekstra. 2000. Evolution,
an introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
[also in a Brazilian Portuguese edition]
2nd Edition |
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 Hendry,
A.P. & S.C. Stearns (eds.). 2004. Evolution
Illuminated: Salmon and their relatives. Oxford
University Press, Oxford. 560 p. |
Publications:
Paper with PDFs
1. Stearns, S.C. 1976. Life history tactics: A review of the ideas. Quarterly Review of Biology 51: 3-47. [pdf]
2. Stearns, S.C. 1977. The evolution of life-history traits: A critique of the theory and a review of the data. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 8: 145-171. [pdf]
3. Stearns, S.C., and R.D. Sage. 1980. Maladaptation in a marginal population of the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis. Evolution 34: 65-75. [pdf]
4. Stearns, S.C. 1980. A new view of life-history evolution. Oikos 35: 266-281. [pdf]
5. Stearns, S.C. 1981. On measuring fluctuating environments: Predictability, constancy, and contingency. Ecology 62: 185-199. [pdf]
6. Stearns, S.C., and R.E. Crandall. 1981b. Bet-hedging and persistence as adaptations of colonizers. In G.G.E. Scudder and J.L. Reveal (eds.), Evolution Today. Hunt Inst. Biol. Doc., Pittsburgh. pp. 371-383. [pdf]
7. Stearns, S.C., and R.E. Crandall. 1981a. Quantitative predictions of delayed maturity. Evolution 35: 455-463. [pdf]
8. Hilborn, R., and S.C. Stearns. 1982. On inference in ecology and evolutionary biology: the problem of multiple causes. Acta Biotheoretica 31: 145-164. [pdf]
9. Stearns, S.C. 1983b. The evolution of life-history traits in mosquito fish since their introduction to Hawaii in 1905: rates of evolution, heritabilities, and developmental plasticity. American Zoologist 23: 65-76. [pdf]
10. Stearns, S.C. 1983c. A natural experiment in life-history evolution: field data on the introduction of mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis, to Hawaii. Evolution. 37: 601-617. [pdf]
11. Stearns, S.C. 1983d. The genetic basis of differences in life-history traits among six stocks of mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis) that shared ancestors in 1905. Evolution. 37: 618-627. [pdf]
12. Stearns, S.C. 1983e. A tractable model system in which social deprivation early in life leads to behavior-mediated functional sterility: The mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis. Animal Behavior 31: 950-951. [pdf]
13. Stearns, S.C. 1983f. The influence of size and phylogeny on patterns of covariation in the life-history traits of mammals. Oikos 41: 173-87. [pdf]
14. Stearns, S.C. 1984a. The effects of size and phylogeny on patterns of covariation in the life-history traits of reptiles. American Naturalist 123: 56-72. [pdf]
15. Stearns, S.C. 1984b. Heritability estimates for age- and length-at-maturity in two populations of mosquito fish that shared ancestors in 1905. Evolution 38: 368-75. [pdf]
16. Stearns, S.C. 1985a. The evolution of sex and the role of sex in evolution. Experientia 41: 1231-1235. [pdf]
17. Stearns, S.C., and J. Koella. 1986. The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits: Predictions for norms of reaction for age- and size-at-maturity. Evolution 40: 893-913. [pdf]
18. Gebhardt, M.D., and S.C. Stearns. 1988. Reaction norms for age and size at eclosion in Drosophila mercatorum. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 1: 335-354. [pdf]
19. Kozlowski, J., and S.C. Stearns. 1989. Hypotheses for the production of excess zygotes: Models of risk-aversion and progeny choice. Evolution 43: 1369-1377. [pdf]
20. Stearns, S.C. 1989a. The evolutionary sigificance of phenotypic plasticity. Bioscience 39: 436-445. [pdf]
21. Stearns, S.C. 1989c. Tradeoffs in life-history evolution. Functional Ecology 3: 259-268. [pdf]
22. Stearns, S.C., G. de Jong, and R. Newman. 1991. The effects of phenotypic plasticity on genetic correlations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6: 122-126. [pdf]
23. Hillesheim, E., and S.C. Stearns. 1992. Correlated responses in life-history traits to artificial selection for body weight in Drosophila melanogater. Evolution 46: 745-52. [pdf]
24. Kawecki, T.J., and S.C. Stearns. 1993. The evolution of life histories in spatially heterogeneous environments: Optimal reaction norms revisited. Evolutionary Ecology 7: 155-174. [pdf]
25. Gebhardt, M.D. and S.C. Stearns. 1993a. Phenotypic plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Effect on phenotypic and environmental correlations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology6: 1-16. [pdf]
26. Gebhardt, M.D. and S.C. Stearns. 1993b. Phenotypic plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Epigenetic mechanisms and the scaling of variances. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 6: 17-30. [pdf]
27. Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser, and E. Hillesheim. 1993. Effect on fitness components of enhanced expression of elongation factor EF-1a. I. The contrasting approaches of molecular and population biologists. American Naturalist 142: 961-993. [pdf]
28. Stearns, S.C, and M. Kaiser. 1993. The effects of enhanced expression of elongation factor EF-1a on lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster. IV. A summary of three experiments. Genetica 91:167-182. [pdf]
29. Keller, L.F., P. Arcese, J.N.M. Smith, W.M. Hochachka, and S.C. Stearns. 1994. Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population bottleneck. Nature 372: 356-357. [pdf]
30. Stearns, S.C., and T.J. Kawecki. 1994. Fitness sensitivity and the canalization of fitness components. Evolution 48: 1438-1450. [pdf]
31. Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser and T.J. Kawecki. 1995. The differential genetic and environmental canalization of fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 8: 539-557. [pdf]
32. Stearns, S.C., and M. Kaiser. 1996. Effect on fitness components of enhanced expression of elongation factor EF-1a. III. Tradeoff analysis. Evolution 50: 795-806. [pdf]
33. Kaiser, M., M. Gasser, R. Ackermann, and S.C. Stearns. 1997. P element inserts in transgenic flies: a cautionary tale. Heredity 78:1-11. [pdf]
34. Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser, A. Blarer, M. Ackermann & M. Doebeli. 2000. The evolution of intrinsic mortality, growth, and reproduction in fruitflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 97: 3309-3313. [pdf]
35. Gasser, M, M. Kaiser, D. Berrigan, & S.C. Stearns. 2000. Life history correlates of evolution under high and low adult mortality. Evolution 54:1260-1272. [pdf]
36. Stearns, S.C. 2000. Life history evolution: successes, limitations, and prospects. Naturwissenschaften. 87: 476-486 [pdf]
37. Stearns, S.C. 2000. Daniel Bernoulli (1738): evolution and economics under risk. Journal of Biosciences 25: 221-228. [pdf]
38. Stearns, S.C. & D. Ebert. 2001. Evolution in health and disease: Work in progress. Quarterly Review of Biology 76: 417-432. [pdf]
39. Ackermann, M., R. Bijlsma, A.C. James, L. Partridge, B.J. Zwaan & S.C. Stearns. 2001. Effects of assay conditions in life history experiments with Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 199-209. [pdf]
40. Kern, S., M. Ackermann, S.C. Stearns & T.J. Kawecki. 2001. Decline in offspring viability as a manifestation of aging in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 55: 1822-1831. [pdf]
41. Stearns, S.C. 2002. Less would have been more. Review of S.J. Gould. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Evolution 56: 2339-2345. [pdf]
42. Pletcher, S.D., S.J. Macdonald, R. Maguerie, U. Certa, S.C. Stearns, L. Partridge & D.B. Goldstein. 2002. Genomic patterns of gene expression exhibit signatures of senescence in Drosophila. Current Biology 12: 712-723. [pdf]
43. Stearns, S.C. & P. Magwene. 2003. The naturalist in a world of genomics. American Naturalist161: 171-180. [pdf]
44. Stearns, S.C. 2003. Evolutionary thinking in the medical sciences. Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, Macmillan, London. [pdf]
45. Ackermann, M., S.C. Stearns & U. Jenal. 2003. Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science 300: 1920. [pdf]
46. Stearns, S.C. 2005. Issues in evolutionary medicine. Pearl Memorial Lecture. American Journal of Human Biology 17: 131-140. [pdf]
47. Nesse, R.M., S.C. Stearns, and G.S. Omenn. 2006. Medicine needs evolution. Science 311: 1071. [pdf]
48. Ackermann, M., Schauerte, A., Stearns, S.C. & Jenal, U. 2007. Experimental evolution of aging in a bacterium. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:126. [pdf]
49. Stearns, S.C. 2007. Are we stalled part way through a major evolutionary transition from individual to group? Evolution 61:2275-2280. [pdf]
50. Nesse, R.M. & Stearns, S.C. 2008. The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health. Evolutionary Applications 1: 28-48. [pdf]
51. Stearns, S.C. 2008. How the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology were founded. J. Evol. Biol. 21: 1449-1451. [pdf]
52. Balmer, O., Stearns, S.C., Schötzau, A. & Brun, R. 2009. Intraspecific competition between co-infecting parasite strains enhances host survival in African trypanosomes. Ecology 90: 3367-3378. [pdf]
53. Byars, S., Ewbank, D., Govindaraju, D.R. & Stearns, S.C. 2010. Natural selection in a contemporary human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 107: 1787-1792. [pdf]
54. Stearns, S.C., Byars, S.G., Govindaraju, D.R., Ewbank, D. 2010. Measuring selection in contemporary human populations. Nature Reviews Genetics doi:10.1038/nrg2831. [pdf]
55. Stearns, S.C. 2011. George Christopher Williams, 1926-2010. A biographical memoir. National Academy of Sciences. 22p. [pdf]
56. Stearns, S.C. 2011. On designing courses in evolutionary medicine. Evo. Edu. Outreach 4: 589-594. [pdf]
Original research
articles in peer reviewed journals:
1.
Stearns, S.C. 1975. Light responses of Daphnia
pulex. Limnology and Oceanography20: 564-570.
2.
Stearns, S.C. 1978. Interpopulational differences
in reproductive traits Neoheterandria tridentiger (Pisces:
Poeciliidae) in Panama. Copeia 188-190.
3. Stearns,
S.C., and R.D. Sage. 1980. Maladaptation in a marginal population
of the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis. Evolution 34:
65-75.
4.
Stearns, S.C. 1981. On measuring fluctuating environments:
Predictability, constancy, and contingency. Ecology 62: 185-199.
5.
Stearns, S.C., and R.E. Crandall. 1981. Quantitative
predictions of delayed maturity. Evolution 35: 455-463.
6.
Crandall, R.E., and S.C. Stearns. 1982. Variational
models of life-histories. Theoretical Population Biology 21:
11-23.
7.
Critchlow, R.E., and S.C. Stearns. 1982. The structure
of food webs. American Naturalist 120: 478-499.
8.
Hilborn, R., and S.C. Stearns. 1982. On inference
in ecology and evolutionary biology: the problem of multiple
causes. Acta Biotheoretica 31: 145-164.
9.
Stearns, S.C. 1983. The evolution of life-history
traits in mosquito fish since their introduction to Hawaii
in 1905: rates of evolution, heritabilities, and developmental
plasticity. American Zoologist23: 65-76.
10.
Stearns, S.C. 1983. A natural experiment in life-history
evolution: field data on the introduction of mosquito fish,
Gambusia affinis, to Hawaii. Evolution. 37: 601-617.
11.
Stearns, S.C. 1983. The genetic basis of differences
in life-history traits among six stocks of mosquito fish (Gambusia
affinis) that shared ancestors in 1905. Evolution. 37:
618-627.
12.
Stearns, S.C. 1983. A tractable model system in which
social deprivation early in life leads to behavior-mediated
functional sterility: The mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis.
Animal Behavior 31: 950-951.
13.
Stearns, S.C. 1983. The influence of size and phylogeny
on patterns of covariation in the life-history traits of mammals.
Oikos 41: 173-87.
14.
Stearns, S.C. 1984. The effects of size and phylogeny
on patterns of covariation in the life-history traits of reptiles.
American Naturalist 123: 56-72:
15.
Stearns, S.C. 1984. Heritability estimates for age-
and length-at-maturity in two populations of mosquito fish
that shared ancestors in 1905. Evolution 38: 368-75.
16.
Stearns, S.C., and J. Koella. 1986. The evolution
of phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits: Predictions
for norms of reaction for age- and size-at-maturity. Evolution
40: 893-913.
17.
Gebhardt, M.D., and S.C. Stearns. 1988. Reaction
norms for age and size at eclosion in Drosophila mercatorum.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 1: 335-354.
18.
Kozlowski, J., and S.C. Stearns. 1989. Hypotheses
for the production of excess zygotes: Models of risk-aversion
and progeny choice. Evolution 43: 1369-1377.
19.
Hillesheim, E., and S.C. Stearns. 1992. Correlated
responses in life-history traits to artificial selection for
body weight in Drosophila melanogater. Evolution 46:
745-52.
20.
Gebhardt, M.D., and S.C. Stearns. 1992. Phenotypic
plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster.
III. Effect of the environment on genetic parameters.
Genetical Research 60: 87-101.
21.
Ebert, D., L.Y. Yampolsky, and S.C. Stearns. 1992.
Genetics of life history in Daphnia magna I. Heritabilities
at two food levels. Heredity 70: 335-343.
22.
Kawecki, T.J., and S.C. Stearns. 1993. The evolution
of life histories in spatially heterogeneous environments:
Optimal reaction norms revisited. Evolutionary Ecology 7:
155-174.
23.
Gebhardt, M.D. and S.C. Stearns. 1993. Phenotypic
plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster.
I. Effect on phenotypic and environmental correlations. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 6: 1-16.
24.
Gebhardt, M.D. and S.C. Stearns. 1993. Phenotypic
plasticity for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster.
II. Epigenetic mechanisms and the scaling of variances. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 6: 17-30.
25.
Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser, and E. Hillesheim. 1993.
Effect on fitness components of enhanced expression of elongation
factor EF-1a. I. The contrasting approaches of molecular
and population biologists. American Naturalist 142: 961-993.
26.
Stearns, S.C, and M. Kaiser. 1993. The effects of
enhanced expression of elongation factor EF-1a on lifespan
in Drosophila melanogaster. IV. A summary of three
experiments. Genetica 91:167-182.
27.
Keller, L.F., P. Arcese, J.N.M. Smith, W.M. Hochachka,
and S.C. Stearns. 1994. Selection against inbred song sparrows
during a natural population bottleneck. Nature 372: 356-357.
28.
Stearns, S.C., and T.J. Kawecki. 1994. Fitness sensitivity
and the canalization of fitness components. Evolution 48:
1438-1450.
29.
Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser and T.J. Kawecki. 1995.
The differential genetic and environmental canalization of
fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 8: 539-557.
30.
Blarer, A., M. Doebeli, and S.C. Stearns. 1995. Diagnosing
senescence: inferring evolutionary causes from phenotypic
patterns can be misleading. Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London Series B262: 305-312.
31.
Stearns, S.C., and M. Kaiser. 1996. Effect on fitness
components of enhanced expression of elongation factor EF-1a.
III. Tradeoff analysis. Evolution 50: 795-806.
32.
Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser, and A. Blarer. 1996. A
case study in experimental evolution: Reproductive effort
and induced responses in Drosophila melanogaster.
Plant Species Biology 11: 97-105.
33.
Kaiser, M., M. Gasser, R. Ackermann, and S.C. Stearns.
1997. P element inserts in transgenic flies: a cautionary
tale. Heredity 78:1-11.
34.
Stearns, S.C., M. Ackermann & M. Doebeli. 1998.
The experimental evolution of aging in fruitflies. Experimental
Gerontology 33: 785-792.
35. Stearns, S.C., M. Kaiser, A. Blarer, M. Ackermann & M.
Doebeli. 2000. The evolution of intrinsic mortality, growth,
and reproduction in fruitflies. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science, USA 97: 3309-3313.
36.
Gasser, M, M. Kaiser, D. Berrigan, & S.C. Stearns.
2000. Life history correlates of evolution under high and
low adult mortality. Evolution 54:1260-1272.
37.
Ackermann, M., R. Bijlsma, A.C. James, L. Partridge,
B.J. Zwaan & S.C. Stearns. 2001. Effects of assay conditions
in life history experiments with Drosophila melanogaster.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 199-209.
38.
Kern, S., M. Ackermann, S.C. Stearns & T.J. Kawecki.
2001. Decline in offspring viability as a manifestation of
aging in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 55: 1822-1831.
39.
Pletcher, S.D., S.J. Macdonald, R. Maguerie, U. Certa,
S.C. Stearns, L. Partridge & D.B. Goldstein. 2002. Genomic
patterns of gene expression exhibit signatures of senescence
in Drosophila. Current Biology 12: 712-723.
40.
Stearns, S.C. & P. Magwene. 2003. The naturalist
in a world of genomics. American Naturalist 161: 171-180.
41. Ackermann, M., S.C. Stearns
& U. Jenal. 2003. Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric
division. Science 300: 1920.
42. Ackermann, M., Schauerte, A., Stearns, S.C. & Jenal, U. 2007. Experimental evolution of aging in a bacterium. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:126.
43. Stearns, S.C. 2007. Are we stalled part way through a major evolutionary transition from individual to group? Evolution 61:2275-2280.
44. Balmer, O., Stearns, S.C., Schötzau, A. & Brun, R. 2009. Intraspecific competition between co-infecting parasite strains enhances host survival in African trypanosomes. Ecology 90: 3367-3378.
45. Byars, S., Ewbank, D., Govindaraju, D.R. & Stearns, S.C. 2010. Natural selection in a contemporary human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 107: 1787-1792.
Review articles
1.
Stearns, S.C. 1976. Life history tactics: A review
of the ideas. Quarterly Review of Biology 51: 3-47.
2.
Stearns, S.C. 1977. The evolution of life-history
traits: A critique of the theory and a review of the data.
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 8: 145-171.
3.
Stearns, S.C. 1980. A new view of life-history evolution.
Oikos 35: 266-281.
4.
Stearns, S.C. 1982b. The role of development in the
evolution of life histories. In J.T. Bonner (ed.),
The role of development in evolution. pp. 237-258. Springer-Verlag,
New York.
5. Stearns,
S.C. 1982c. The emergence of evolutionary and community ecology
as experimental sciences. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
25: 621-648.
6.
Stearns, S.C. 1985a. The evolution of sex and the
role of sex in evolution. Experientia 41: 1231-1235.
7.
Stearns, S.C. 1986a. Natural selection and fitness,
adaptation and constraint. In D. Raup and D. Jablonski
(eds.), Patterns and Processes in the History of Life. Dahlem
Konferenzen. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 23-44.
8.
Stearns, S.C. 1987b. The selection arena hypothesis.
In S.C. Stearns (ed.). 1987. The evolution of sex and its
consequences. Birkhaeuser Verlag. pp. 299-311.
9.
Stearns, S.C. 1989a. The evolutionary significance
of phenotypic plasticity. Bioscience 39: 436-445.
10.
Stearns, S.C. 1989c. Tradeoffs in life-history evolution.
Functional Ecology 3: 259-268.
11.
Wanntorp, H.-E., D.R. Brooks, T. Nilsson, S. Nylin,
F. Ronquist, S.C. Stearns, and N. Wedell. 1990. Phylogenetic
approaches in ecology. Oikos 57: 119-132.
12.
Stearns, S.C. 1990. The evolutionary maintenance
of sexual reproduction: The solutions proposed for a longstanding
problem. Journal of Genetics 69: 1-10.
13.
Stearns, S.C., G. de Jong, and R. Newman. 1991. The
effects of phenotypic plasticity on genetic correlations.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6: 122-126.
14.
Jones, J.S., D. Ebert, and S.C. Stearns. 1992. Life
history and mechanical constraints on reproduction in genes,
cells, and Daphnia. In R.J. Berry, T.J. Crawford,
and G.M. Hewitt (eds.), Genes in Ecology, 33rd Symp. Brit.
Ecol. Soc., Blackwell Scientific. pp. 393-404.
15.
Stearns, S.C. 1994. The evolutionary links between
fixed and variable traits. Acta Paleontologica Polonica 38:
215-232.
16.
Stearns, S.C. 1997. Biodiversity: A Review of the
Scientific Issues. In J.B. Lachavanne and R. Fuge (eds.),
Biodiversity in Land-Inland Water Ecotones. Paris: Parthenon
1997 (UNESCO/MAB). pp. 269-275.
17.
Stearns, S.C. 1999. Storie naturali. In Frontiere
della Vita.Volume IV: 341-350.
18.
Stearns, S.C. 2000. Life history evolution: successes,
limitations, and prospects. Naturwissenschaften. 87: 476-486
19.
Stearns, S.C. 2000. Daniel Bernoulli (1738): evolution
and economics under risk. Journal of Biosciences 25: 221-228.
20.
Stearns, S.C. & L. Partridge. 2001. The genetics
of aging in Drosophila. In E. Masoro & S. Austad
(eds.), Handbook of Aging, 5th Ed., Academic Press.
Pp. 345-360.
21.
Stearns, S.C. & D. Ebert. 2001. Evolution in
health and disease: Work in progress. Quarterly Review of
Biology 76: 417-432.
22.
Stearns, S.C. 2002. Life history evolution. In Frontiers
of Life 4: 351-359 (Translation of 78 above).
23.
Stearns, S.C. 2002. Darwinian Medicine. Introductory
Essay In M Pagel (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution,
Oxford University Press.
24.
Stearns, S.C. 2003. Evolutionary thinking in the
medical sciences. Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, Macmillan,
London.
25.
Stearns, S.C., Kappeler, P.M. & Pereira, M.E.
2003. Primate life histories and future research. Pp. 301-312
In P. M. Kappeler & M.E. Pereira (eds.), Primate Life
Histories and Socioecology. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
26.
Stearns, S.C. & A.P. Hendry. 2004. Introduction:
The salmonid contribution to key issues in evolution. In
Hendry & Stearns (eds.) 2004, pp. 3-19.
27. Sultan, S. & S.C. Stearns.
2005. Environmentally contingent variation. In Hallgrimsson,
B. & B.K. Hall (eds), Variation: A Hierarchical Examination
of a Central Concept in Biology. Academic Press (in press).
28. Stearns, S.C. 2005. Issues in evolutionary medicine. Pearl Memorial Lecture. American Journal of Human Biology 17: 131-140.
29. Nesse, R.M. & Stearns, S.C. 2008. The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health. Evolutionary Applications 1: 28-48.
30. Stearns, S.C., Byars, S.G., Govindaraju, D.R., Ewbank, D. 2010. Measuring selection in contemporary human populations. Nature Reviews Genetics doi:10.1038/nrg2831.
Other publications
1.
Stearns, S.C. 1971. Murphy. Limnology and Oceanography16:
1000-1002.
2.
Stearns, S.C. 1972. Models: 2. Limnology and Oceanography17:
500-501.
3.
Stearns, S.C., and R.E. Crandall. 1981b. Bet-hedging
and persistence as adaptations of colonizers. In G.G.E.
Scudder and J.L. Reveal (eds.), Evolution Today. Hunt Inst.
Biol. Doc., Pittsburgh. pp. 371-383.
4.
Stearns, S.C. 1982a. Reply to Etges. Oikos 38: 122-124.
5.
Stearns, S.C., and R.E. Crandall. 1984. Plasticity
for age and size at sexual maturity: a life-history response
to unavoidable stress. In G. Potts and R.J. Wootton (eds.),
Fish Reproduction, Academic Press, London. pp. 13-33.
6.
Stearns, S.C. 1982d. On fitness. In D. Mossakowski
and G. Roth (Eds.), Environmental Adaptation and Evolution:
A Theoretical and Empirical Approach. G. Fischer-Verlag, Stuttgart.
pp. 3-17.
7.
Stearns, S.C. 1983a. Introduction to the symposium:
The interface of life-history evolution, quantitative genetics,
and whole-organism ontogeny. American Zoologist23: 3-4.
8.
Stearns, S.C. 1983g. Rapid evolution in ecological
time. Bioscience 33: 460.
9.
Stearns, S.C. 1984c. How much of the phenotype is
necessary to understand evolution at the level of the gene?
In K. Woehrmann and V. Loeschke (eds.), Population
biology and evolution. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 31-45.
10.
Stearns, S.C. 1984d. Models in evolutionary ecology.
In K. Woehrmann and V. Loeschke (eds.), Population biology
and evolution. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 261-5.
11.
Stearns, S.C. 1984e. The tension between adaptation
and constraint in the evolution of reproductive patterns.
In W. Engels (ed.), Invertebrate Reproduction. Elsevier-North
Holland, Amsterdam. pp. 387-98.
12.
Stearns, S.C. 1984f. Selection misconstrued. Commentary
on Selection by Consequences by B.F. Skinner. Behavioral
and Brain Science 7: 499.
13.
Stearns, S.C. 1986b. Is there a balance of nature?
In W.F. Eppenberger and R. Kopp (eds.), Endzeit? Helbing
and Lichtenhahn, Basel and Frankfurt. pp. 121-135.
14.
Stearns, S.C., and P. Schmid-Hempel. 1987. Evolutionary
insights should not be wasted. Oikos 49: 118-125.
15.
Stearns, S.C. 1987d. Some modest advice for graduate
students. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 18: 82-89.
16.
Stearns, S.C. 1987e. Some modest advice for graduate
students. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 68:
145-150.
17.
Gebhardt, M.D., S.C. Stearns, H. Bachmann and T. Diggelmann.
1987f. Plasticity of age and size at hatching in D. mercatorum.
Drosophila Information Service 66: 56-60.
18.
Stearns, S.C., T. Diggelmann, M. Gebhardt, H. Bachmann,
and R. Wechsler. 1987g. A device for collecting flies of
precisely determined post-hatching age. Drosophila Information
Service 66: 167-169.
19.
Stearns, S.C. 1987h. Evolution und Naturschutz. Reveue
Suisse de Zoologie 94: 625-638.
20.
Stearns, S.C. 1989b. Comparative and experimental
approaches to the evolutionary ecology of development. Geobios
memoire speciale No. 12: 349-355.
21.
Barbault, R., and S. Stearns. 1991. Towards an evolutionary
ecology linking species interactions, life-history strategies
and community dynamics: An introduction. Acta Oecologia 12:
3-10.
22.
Hillesheim, E., and S.C. Stearns. 1991b. Repeatability
of life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster estimated
on standard medium. Drosophila Information Service 70: 86-90.
23.
Stearns, S.C. 1996. Introductory remarks. Ecoscience
3: R3-R5
24.
Stearns, S.C. 2002. Progress on canalization. (Commentary.)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99: 10229-10230.
25.
Stearns, S.C. 2003. Safeguards and spurs. (News &
views) Nature 424: 501-503.
26. Nesse, R.M., S.C. Stearns, and G.S. Omenn. 2006. Medicine needs evolution. Science 311: 1071.
27. Stearns, S.C. 2008. How the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology were founded. J. Evol. Biol. 21: 1449-1451.
Papers written by students
under my supervision
(I do not put my name on all papers written
in my group - only those to which I make a substantive contribution)
1. Gebhardt,
M.D. 1987. Parental care: A freshwater phenomenon? Environmental
Biology of Fish. 19: 69-72.
2. Koella,
J.C. 1988. The tangled bank: The maintenance of sexual reproduction
through competitive interactions. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology1: 95-116.
3. Ebert,
D. 1991. The effect of size at birth, maturation threshold
and genetic differences on the life history of Daphnia
magna. Oecologia (Berlin) 86: 243-250.
4. Perrot,
V., S. Richerd, and M. Valéro. 1991. Transition from haploidy
to diploidy. Nature 351: 315-317.
5. Gebhardt,
M.D. 1991. A note on the application of diallel crosses for
the analysis of genetic variation in natural populations.
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 82: 54-56.
6. Valéro,
M., S. Richer, V. Perrot, and C. Destombe. 1992. Evolution
of alternation of haploid and diploid phases in life cycles.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7: 25-29.
7. Kawecki,
T.J. 1992. Young queens of the harvesting ant Messor semirufus
avoid founding in places visited by conspecific workers.
Insectes Sociaux 39: 113-115.
8. Yampolsky,
L.Yu. 1992. Genetic variation in the sexual reproduction rate
within a population of a cyclic parthenogen, Daphnia magna.
Evolution 46: 833-37.
9. Ebert,
D. 1992. A food independent maturation threshold and canalization
of size at maturity in Daphnia. Limnology and Oceanography37:
878-881.
10. Hellriegel, B. 1992. Modeling
the immune response to malaria with ecological concepts: short-term
behaviour against long-term equilibrium. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London Series B 250: 249-256.
11. Ebert, D., L.Y. Yampolsky,
and A.J. van Noordwijk. 1992. Genetics of life history in
Daphnia magna II. Phenotypic plasticity. Heredity 70:
344-352.
12. Brett, M.T., L. Martin, and
T.J. Kawecki. 1992. An experimental test of the egg-ratio
method: estimated versus observed death rates. Freshwater
Biology 28: 237-248.
13. Kawecki, T.J. 1993. Age and
size at maturity in a patchy environment: Fitness maximization
versus evolutionary stability. Oikos 66: 309-317.
14. Ebert, D., and L. Yampolsky.
1993. Family planning in Daphnia: When is clutch size
determined? Russian Journal of Aquatic Ecology 1: 143-147.
15. Koella, J. 1993. Ecological
correlates of chiasma frequency in plants. Biological Journal
of the Linnean Society of London 48: 227-238.
16. Ebert, D. 1993. The tradeoff
between offspring size and number in Daphnia magna: The
influence of genetic, environmental, and maternal effects.
Archiv für Hydrobiologie Suppl. 90 4: 453-473.
17. Richerd, S., Perrot, V., Couvet,
D., Valéro, M. & Kondrashov, A., 1993. Deleterious mutations
can account for the maintenance of the haplo-diploid cycle.
In Genetics and Evolution of Aquatic Organisms, Edited
by A. R. Beaumont. (Chapman & Hall), 263-280
18. Hellriegel, B., U. Leugger,
L. Keller, and H. Zandt. 1993. Education and science for
maintaining biodiversity. Biodiversity Letters 1: 131-133.
19. Ebert, D. 1994. A maturation
size threshold and phenotypic plasticity of age and size at
maturity in Daphnia magna. Oikos 69: 309-317
20. Yampolsky, L. Yu., and D.
Ebert. 1994. Variation and plasticity of biomass allocation
in Daphnia. Functional Ecology 8: 435-440.
21. Perrot, V. 1994. Experimental
approaches to the evolution of life cycles. Lectures in Mathematics
and the Life Sciences 25: 121-134.
22. Ebert, D. 1994. Fractional
resource allocation into few eggs: Daphnia as an example.
Ecology 75: 568-71.
23. Senn, J., and E. Haukioja.
1994. Reactions of the mountain birch to bud removal: effects
of severity and timing, and implications for herbivores. Functional
Ecology 8: 494-501.
24. Hanhimäki, S., J. Senn, and
E. Haukioja. 1994. Performance of insect herbivores on hybridizing
Trends in Ecology and Evolution: the case of subarctic birches.
Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 163-175.
25. Kawecki, T.J. 1994. Mutation
accumulation and the evolutionary cost of being a generalist.
American Naturalist 144:833-838.
26. Yampolsky, L.Yu., R.M. Kamaltynov,
D. Ebert, D.A. Filatov, and V.I. Chernykh. 1994. Variation
of allozyme loci in endemic gammarids of Lake Baikal. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society of London 53: 309-323.
27.
Yampolsky, L.Y., and S.M.Scheiner. 1995. Developmental
noise, phenotypic plasticity, and allozyme heterozygosity
in Daphnia.. Evolution 48: 1715-1722.
28. Kawecki, T.J. 1995. Demography
of source-sink populations and the evolution of ecological
niches. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 38-44.
29. Kawecki, T.J. 1995. Adaptive
plasticity of egg size in response to competition in the cowpea
weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).
Oecologia 102: 81-85.
30. Kawecki T.J. 1995. Expression
of genetic and environmental variance for life history characters
on the usual and novel hosts in the cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus
maculatus. Heredity 75: 70-76.
31. Kawecki, T.J. 1997. Habitat
quality ranking depends on habitat-independent environmental
factors: amodel and results from Callasobruchus maculatus.
Functional Ecology 11:247-254.
32. Doebeli, M., A. Blarer, and
M. Ackermann. 1997. Population dynamics, demographic stochasticity,
and the evolution of cooperation. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA 94: 5167-5171.
33. Ebert, D. 1997. The evolution
and genetics of maturation in Daphnia. In B. Streit,
T. Städler & C.M. Lively, Evolutionary ecology of freshwater
animals. Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. 151-178.
34. Sakwinska, O. 2000. Trimethylamine
does not trigger antipredatory life history shifts in Daphnia.
Limnology and Oceanography 45:988-990.
35.
Sakwinksa, O. 2002. Response to fish kairomone in
Daphnea galeata life history traits relies on shift
to earlier instar at maturation. Oecologia 131: 409-417.
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