| Citation | Josephine Pemberton is a leading evolutionary biologist whose pioneering application of genetic analyses in wild animal populations has generated major advances in our understanding of breeding systems and in evolutionary ecology and genetics. In addition she has led one of the most influential multidisciplinary long-term studies of a wild animal for nearly 20 years (Soay sheep on St. Kilda, Scotland) and jointly led another for the same period (red deer on the Isle of Rum, Scotland). Together, these activities have made it possible to answer a wide range of ecological and evolutionary questions that were previously inaccessible. |