Stephen Stearns

Professor Stearns specializes in life history evolution, which links the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, in evolutionary medicine, and in evolutionary functional genomics. He came to Yale in 2000 from the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he had been professor of zoology since 1983 and held several administrative posts. 

His books include “Evolution, an introduction” with Rolf Hoekstra, “Watching, from the Edge of Extinction” with his wife Beverly Peterson Stearns, “The Evolution of Life Histories” , and two edited volumes, “Evolution in health and disease” and “The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences.”