Wyatt W. Anderson

Professor Wyatt W. Anderson was the Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the University of Georgia. His research focused on ecological and evolutionary genetics. He incorporated ecological factors such as density dependence and demographic structure into models for the operation of natural selection and he measured life history components of natural selection in laboratory and natural populations of Drosophila flies. He analyzed molecular evolution at the Amylase gene in several Drosophila species. Present work includes experimental studies of the relationship between mate choice and fitness of offspring and natural selection on a meiotically-driven chromosome, both projects utilizing Drosophila species. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987 and is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.