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Podcast: Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
Episode: B. Rosemary Grant: The Winding and Wondrous Road of a Pioneering Evolutionary Biologist, Research Partner-Wife, and Mother
Description: B. Rosemary Grant, PhD, Research Scholar Emerita at PrincetonUniversity, is world-renowned for 40 years of pioneering fieldwork, with herhusband, Peter, on two uninhabited islands in the Galapagos archipelago.Their studies of Darwin’s finches in their natural environment have madeenormous contributions to evolutionary biology and ecology. In her memoir--One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward--Rosemary chronicles heramazing journey: teaching in the Finnish fashion; marrying and forming aresearch partnership; earning her PhD at age 49; raising two youngdaughters in the Ga...