A 1967 graduate of Yale College, Stephen C. Stearns earned a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. After a Miller Fellowship at Berkeley, he taught at Reed College in Portland, Oregon before moving to Basel, Switzerland, in 1983, where he was Professor of Zoology, Director of the Zoology Institute, and Dean of the Faculty of Science. He founded and served as president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the Tropical Biology Association, and the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health and was founding editor of both the Journal of Evolutionary Biology and Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. He has been a vice president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Yale since 2000, where he is Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, he currently teaches courses in Evolution and Medicine and Life History Evolution. His books include The Evolution of Life Histories (1992, OUP),Evolution: An Introduction (with Rolf Hoekstra, 2008, OUP), Watching, from the Edge of Extinction (with Beverly Stearns, 1999, Yale), and Evolutionary Medicine (with Ruslan Medzhitov, 2015, Sinauer). You may reach him via email.
