Background
Zuk was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and she is a native to Los Los Angeles
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Marlene Zuk
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University of Michigan. University of California, Santa Barbara. University of New Mexico.
Career
She worked as professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) until she transferred to the University of Minnesota in 2012. Her studies involve sexual selection and parasites. Living in the city, she became interested in insects at a young age.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Zuk started majoring in English, but decided to switch to Biology.
After earning her Bachelor"s degree, she wrote and taught for three years. In 1982, she and West. Doctorate. Hamilton proposed a hypothesis on sexual selection known as the good genes hypothesis.
Zuk went to the University of Michigan in 1986 to earn her Doctor of Philosophy She completed her postdoctoral research at the University of New Mexico. She joined the UCR faculty in 1989.
