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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Panama, Panamá, PA

1975-01-01 to present | Scientist Emerita (c/o Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1967 to 1969 | Post-doctoral Fellow (Biological Sciences)
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University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

1959-09-01 to 1967-02-01 | AB, MS, PhD (Zoology)
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Professional activities (12)

International Union for the Study of Social Insects: Paris, FR

2014 | Hamilton Award
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Animal Behavior Society: Glenview, Illinois, US

2012 | Quest Award
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Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Roma, Lazio, IT

2005
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Association of American Publishers New York: New York, NY, US

2003 | Hawkins Award
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American Society of Naturalists: MA, MA, US

2003 | Sewell Wright Award
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Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Costa Rica: San Jose, San Jose, CR

2002
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Cambridge, MA, US

1996
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Society for the Study of Evolution: St Louis, Missouri, US

1992-01-01 to 1992-12-31 | President
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National Academy of Sciences: Washington, DC, US

1988-04-01
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Society for the Study of Evolution: St Louis, Missouri, US

1987-01-01 to 1987-12-31 | Vice-president
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Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship: Princeton, New Jersey, US

1963
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Phi Beta Kappa Society: DC, DC, US

1963
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Works (6)

Animal behaviour and the new natural history

Animal Behaviour
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Mary Jane West-Eberhard
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Behavior, ovarian status, and juvenile hormone titer in the emblematic social wasp Zethus miniatus (Vespidae, Eumeninae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: HC Kelstrup; MJ West-Eberhard; FS Nascimento; LM Riddiford; K Hartfelder
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In the Spotlight—Established Researcher

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution
2021-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Mary Jane West‐Eberhard
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John Tyler Bonner: Remembering a scientific pioneer

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution
2019-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Ingo Brigandt; Laura A. Katz; Vidyanand Nanjundiah; Scott F. Gilbert; Peter R. Grant; B. Rosemary Grant; Alan C. Love; Stuart A. Newman; Mary J. West‐Eberhard
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Modularity as a universal emergent property of biological traits

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution
2019-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Mary Jane West‐Eberhard
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Nutrition, the visceral immune system, and the evolutionary origins of pathogenic obesity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019-01-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Mary Jane West-Eberhard
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