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Five burning questions with Ehab Abouheif
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Ehab Abouheif, James McGill Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest distinctions in the global science community, which recognizes contributions to science and technology, scientific leadership, and extraordinary achievements across disciplines.
Professor Abouheif is widely recognized for his pioneering research on ant societies—one of the most ecologically diverse and evolutionarily successful organisms on our planet—as a model for studies in the emerging field of ecological evolutionary developmental biology, known as eco-evo-devo.