Roberta Millstein

Roberta L. Millstein is Professor Emerit of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis, with affiliations in the Science and Technology Studies Program and the John Muir Institute for the Environment. She is the Senior Co-chair of the Philosophy of Science Association’s Women's Caucus and an Editor of the peer-reviewed online open-access journal Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology. She also serves as a member of the executive committee and Council for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division (AAAS-PD) as well as the council for the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB). Millstein's primary research is in the history and philosophy of biology and environmental ethics. Millstein's work on the concepts of natural selection and random genetic drift is widely cited. She wrote the authoritative entry on genetic drift in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.