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James T. Costa is a Professor and Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station at Western Carolina University (WCU), where he has taught genetics, entomology, evolution, and biogeography since 1996. His research spans insect behavior, conservation biology, and the history of evolutionary thought, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Costa has authored 9 books, including Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace (2023) and Darwin and the Art of Botany (2023), and held fellowships at institutions like Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and the New York Botanical Garden.
- Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in Entomology from the University of Georgia; B.S. in Biological Sciences from SUNY Buffalo.
His teaching includes graduate Biogeography and courses on Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, alongside field programs in Ecuador and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Costa lectures extensively in the U.S. and Europe and has co-instructed Harvard’s Darwin summer program at Oxford. Awards include the Stephen Jay Gould Prize (2023) and Alfred Russel Wallace Medal (2017).
