Locke Rowe

Short-term Researcher, the Natural Sciences Fellowship Programme, SCAS.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Research Associate, Royal Ontario Museum

Locke Rowe is known for his research in the evolution of life histories and sex differences. He has
published about 150 refereed papers and a Princeton monograph. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Physiographic
Society in Lund, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, as well as a past Distinguished Chair and senior
Canada Research Chair at University of Toronto. He has served as the head of the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, and more recently as a Dean, and Vice-Provost, at the University of Toronto.
He has a doctorate, honoris causa, from Uppsala University and is a past Fellow at SCAS.

At SCAS, Rowe will be addressing questions about variable selection and the evolution of genetic robust-
ness and integration.

Locke Rowe is in residence late October - early December 2023.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2023-24.