Marvalee Wake | |
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| Born | Marvalee Hendricks July 31, 1939 |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Known for | Research in caecilian biology and vertebrate morphology |
| Spouse | David B. Wake |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Doctoral advisor | Jay M. Savage |
| Website | ib |
Marvalee Hendricks Wake (born July 31, 1939) is an American zoologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research in the biology of caecilians (limbless amphibians) and vertebrate development and evolution. A 1988 Guggenheim Fellow, she has served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, International Union of Biological Sciences, and the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology.[1][2] She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the California Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- ^ Schwenk, Kurt; Korff, Wyatt; Matthias Starck, J. (2005). "Integrative organismal biology: Papers in honor of Professor Marvalee H. Wake" (PDF). Zoology. 108 (4): 261–267. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2005.09.002. PMID 16351974. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
- ^ Hall, Brian K. (2005). "In Goethe's Wake: Marvalee Wake's conceptual contributions to the development and evolution of a science of morphology". Zoology. 108 (4): 269–275. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2005.09.005. PMID 16351975.