Darwin Week 2011 - Ed Wasserman - Artificial and Natural Selection

Ed Wasserman received his B.A. in psychology at UCLA and his Ph. D. in psychology at Indiana University. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sussex in England.

Ed Wasserman has been a member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa since 1972, where he is the Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology. His research has focused on cognition and behavior in humans and other animals, including: pigeons, chickens, crows, rats, dogs, baboons, and bonobos. It has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. And, it has enlisted an international contingent of students and collaborators from: Canada, Chile, China, England, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, and Spain.

Ed Wasserman was just selected by the American Psychological Association as the 2011 winner of the D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. The Hebb Award honors a psychologist who has made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in behavioral neuroscience and/or comparative psychology.

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