Patricia Adair Gowaty
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Patricia Adair Gowaty is an American evolutionary biologist. Gowaty is a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia and the University of California, Los Angeles.https://ecology.uga.edu/directory/patricia-gowaty/https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/patricia-gowaty/
Life and career
She received her B.A. in biology at Tulane University and her PhD in zoology at Clemson University in 1980. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.{{Cite web |url=http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=8418|title=UCLA Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology|accessdate=22 December 2008}}
Gowaty is known for her many articles about human and animal behavior and evolution. She is author and editor of a book that seeks to combine feminist theory and Darwinian evolutionary biology.{{cite book| author=Gowaty, PA| title=Feminism and Evolutionary Biology - Boundaries, intersections and frontiers| year=1997| publisher=Springer | isbn = 0-412-07361-7}} She has also written about the effects of and importance of rape in understanding human evolution.{{cite book| author=Gowaty, PA| title=Power Asymmetries Between the Sexes, Mate Preferences, and Components of Fitness | year=2003| pages=61–86 | editor=Cheryl Brown Travis| publisher=The MIT Press | isbn = 0-262-20143-7}} Her recent research has focused on the concept of reproductive compensation in population genetics.{{cite journal| author=Gowaty, PA| journal=Journal of Evolutionary Biology| year=2008| title= Reproductive Compensation| pmid = 18564347| volume=21| issue=5| pages=1189–200| doi=10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01559.x| doi-access=}}{{cite journal|vauthors=Gowaty PA, Anderson WW, Bluhm CK, Drickamer LC, Kim YK, Moore AJ | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences| year=2007| title= The hypothesis of reproductive compensation and its assumptions about mate preferences and offspring viability| pmid = 17848509| volume=104| pages=15023–15027| issue=38| doi=10.1073/pnas.0706622104| pmc=1986606 | doi-access=free}}
In 2012 Gowaty and colleagues reported{{cite journal|vauthors=Gowaty PA, Kim YK, and Anderson WW | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences| year=2012| title=No evidence of sexual selection in a repetition of Bateman's classic study of Drosophila melanogaster| pmid = 22689966| volume=109| pages=11740–11745| issue=29| doi= 10.1073/pnas.1207851109| pmc=3406809| doi-access=free}} a precise replication of Angus Bateman's classic experiment on sexual selection in Drosophila. The study showed that Bateman's methodology was flawed. Once these flaws are accounted for, the experimental data did not support his conclusions.{{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120626092714.htm|author=University of California - Los Angeles|title=Biologists reveal potential 'fatal flaw' in iconic sexual selection study.|journal=ScienceDaily|date=26 June 2012|accessdate=2017-01-26}}
Gowaty is married to biologist Stephen P. Hubbell, with whom she has co-authored many journal articles about ecology and evolutionary biology.{{cite web|url=http://www.researchmagazine.uga.edu/summer2005/printgowaty.htm|title=Research Magazine|website=uga.edu}}
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