Marlene Zuk
Author of Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
About the Author
Marlene Zuk is a professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. The author of Sex on Six Legs, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Works by Marlene Zuk
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (2013) 285 copies, 15 reviews
Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World (2011) 158 copies, 7 reviews
Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are (2007) 120 copies, 9 reviews
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters (2022) 44 copies, 1 review
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- Birthdate
- 1956-05-20
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Michigan, USA
New Mexico, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Education
- University of Michigan (PhD ∙ Biology)
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of New Mexico - Occupations
- evolutionary biologist
Professor of Biology
behavioural ecologist - Organizations
- University of California, Riverside
University of Minnesota - Short biography
- Marlene Zuk (born 20 May 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist. She worked as professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) until she transferred to the University of Minnesota in 2012. Her studies involve sexual selection and parasites.
Zuk was born in Philadelphia. She is a native to Los Angeles. She became interested in insects at a young age from living in the city. At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Zuk started majoring in English, but decided to switch to Biology. After earning her Bachelor's degree, she wrote and taught for three years. In 1982, she and W. D. Hamilton proposed a hypothesis on sexual selection known as the good genes hypothesis. Zuk went to the University of Michigan in 1986 to earn her Ph.D. She completed her postdoctoral research at the University of New Mexico. She joined the UCR faculty in 1989. In April 2012, Zuk and her husband John Rotenberry transferred to the University of Minnesota, both working in the College of Biological Sciences.
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