From The Advocate September 2011
THE INNOVATORS
These eight groundbreaking LGBT men and women are shaping their industries — from fashion to science — and, in the process, they're changing our very world.
By Advocate Contributors
http://www.advocate.com/Print_Issue/Features/The_Innovators/Joan Roughgarden
65 • Kapaa, Hawaii
Science & Education
It takes a brave woman to question the theories of Charles Darwin, but evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden isn't afraid. Spurred in part by the stunning diversity of people she saw at an LGBT Pride parade in the '90s, Roughgarden has spent years debunking Darwin. Her audacious attack became the groundbreaking tome Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, in which she argued that the variations in gender and sexuality found in many species suggests that Darwin was wrong about sexual selection and the gender binary.
