Douglas Futuyma

Douglas Futuyma is currently Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also served as Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is an internationally recognized researcher, focusing on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves, and the author of the principal college-level textbook, Evolutionary Biology. He is also the author of Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution (1995, Sinauer Assoc.), an excellent overview of the creationism vs. science debate from a well-informed biolgist's perspective.

Some publications:

Futuyma, D.J. 1998. Evolutionary Biology, Third edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.

Futuyma, D. J., and C. Mitter. 1996. Insect-plant interactions: The evolution of component communities. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London B 351:1361-1366.

Futuyma, D. 1995. The uses of evolutionary biology. Science 267: 41-42

Futuyma, D.J., M. C. Keese, and D. J. Funk. 1995. Genetic constraints on macroevolution: The evolution of host affiliation in the leaf beetle genus Ophraella. Evolution 49:797-809.

Futuyma, D. J., and M. C. Keese. 1992. Evolution and coevolution of plants and phytophagous arthropods. PP. 439-475 in G. A. Rosenthal and M. R. Berenbaum (eds.), Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Plant Metabolites (2nd ed.). Academic Press, NY.

Futuyma, D.J. 1987. On the role of species in anagenesis. Amer. Natur. 130: 465-473