Jonathan B. Losos is an evolutionary biologist, herpetologist and ailurologist, best known for his studies of convergent evolution and adaptive radiation, and for experimental studies of evolution in nature.  His widely acclaimed book “The cat’s meow: How cats evolved from the savanna to your sofa” discusses the past, present, and future of the world’s most popular and beloved pet from the perspective of a leading evolutionary biologist, science communicator and cat lover. Losos has received many awards, including the Dobzhansky Prize, the David Starr Jordan Prize, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award, the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, the Sewall Wright Award, the Friend of Darwin Award, and the Distinguished Herpetologist award of The Herpetologists’ League. Losos is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.