Maydianne andrade autobiography for kids

Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist

Maydianne Andrade is a Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist. She is known for her work on the mating habits of spiders, in particular spiders belonging to the Latrodectus species.^[1] In 2007, she was named a Canadian Research Chair in Integrative Behavioural Ecology.^[2]

Early life and education

Andrade was born in Kingston, Jamaica and immigrated with her parents to Vancouver, Canada when she was three years old.^[3]

Andrade earned her BSc in 1992 from Simon Fraser University before pursuing a MSc in zoology in 1995 from the University of Toronto at Mississauga.^[3] Her MSc thesis was entitled "Mating behavior and constraints on reproductive success in a spider with male sexual sacrifice".^[4] Andrade then gained her PhD from Cornell University in 2000 under the co-supervision of Stephen T.

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