She is author and editor of a book that seeks to combine feminist theory and Darwinian evolutionary biology.
[4] She has also written about the effects of and importance of rape in understanding human evolution.
[5] Her recent research has focused on the concept of reproductive compensation in population genetics.
[6][7] In 2012 Gowaty and colleagues reported[8] a precise replication of Angus Bateman's classic experiment on sexual selection in Drosophila.
[9] Gowaty is married to biologist Stephen P. Hubbell, with whom she has co-authored many journal articles about ecology and evolutionary biology.