page_title: Naomi Pierce
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caption_attribution_description: Professor Naomi E Pierce, Harvard University speaking in Bangalore, India
context_page_description: Naomi E. Pierce is the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University and a world authority on butterflies. Pierce is the university's Curator of Lepidoptera, a position once held by Vladimir Nabokov.
  Pierce was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in Zoology from Harvard university to Griffith University in 1983, and a MacArthur Fellow in 1988 with Ecology and Evolutionary/Environmental Biology as area of focus.
  Pierce studies the relationship between butterfly larvae and ants, as well as the genetic trends within the species, in order to understand the process of evolution.
  Pierce and collaborators Corrie Moreau and Charles D. Bell were the first to establish the origin of ants at 140 to 168 million years ago using molecular sequence data, 40 million years older than previous estimates.
context_section_description: Naomi E. Pierce (born 1954) is the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University and a world authority on butterflies. Pierce is the university's Curator of Lepidoptera, a position once held by Vladimir Nabokov.
  Pierce was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in Zoology from Harvard university to Griffith University in 1983, and a MacArthur Fellow in 1988 with Ecology and Evolutionary/Environmental Biology as area of focus. 
  Pierce studies the relationship between butterfly larvae and ants, as well as the genetic trends within the species, in order to understand the process of evolution.
  Pierce and collaborators Corrie Moreau and Charles D. Bell were the first to establish the origin of ants at 140 to 168 million years ago using molecular sequence data, 40 million years older than previous estimates.
caption: Speaking in India (2018)
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