Anole Book Wins Medal from National Academy

Congratulations to Anole Annal’s blogger Jonathan Losos on receiving the National Academy of Science’s Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, which is awarded every four years for “meritorious work in zoology or paleontology published in a three- to five-year period.”  The NAS recognized Losos for his “novel and penetrating evolutionary studies of adaptive radiation in vertebrates,” many of which are summarized in his recent book on anoles.  The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal‘s list of previous recipients reads like a who’s who of prominent 20th century ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and includes the man who coined the term adaptive radiation (Henry Fairfield Osborn ’29) and several of the main architects of the modern synthesis (Dobzhansky ’41, G. G. Simpson ’44 & 65, Sewall Wright ’45, and Ernst Mayr ’67).  The fact that the medal is the size of dinner plate has not deterred Losos from wearing it daily.

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6 Comments

  1. Dan Warren

    Hell yeah, congratulations Jonathan!

  2. lukemahler

    Congrats big guy!! It’s a modern classic!

  3. Ramon E. Martinez-Grimaldo

    that’s wonderful news!!!! the list of the people who have recived this guerdon is really incredible, congratulations to Jonathan Losos!!!

  4. Well done, Jonathan! Congrats and wear that bling with distinction!

  5. jerryhusak

    Congratulations – a well-deserved honor!

  6. Jonathan, congratulations! A very well deserved honor. It strikes me, though, that you are not the first Crimson man to rock that particular style…

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