Alan Grafen

Alan Grafen
Alan Grafen
Born	Dollar, Clackmannanshire
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Nationality	Scottish
Fields	Ethology, Evolutionary biology
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	The economics of evolutionary stability (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Dawkins
Doctoral students	Laurence Hurst
	Website; users.ox.ac.uk/~grafen/

Alan Grafen FRS is a Scottish ethologist and evolutionary biologist. He currently teaches and undertakes research at St John's College, Oxford.^[1] Along with regular contributions to scientific journals, Grafen is known publicly for his work as co-editor (with Mark Ridley) of the 2006 festschrift Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think,^[2] honouring the achievements of his colleague and former academic advisor. He has worked extensively in the field of Biological game theory, and, in 1990, devised a model showing that Zahavi's well-known Handicap principle could theoretically exist in natural populations.^[3] He also published a seminal paper in the field of phylogenetic comparative methods, in which he demonstrated how the tools of generalized least squares could be applied to perform phylogenetically informed statistical analyses.^[4]

Dr. Grafen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 ^[5]

Bibliography

↑ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~grafen/ Alan Grafen's Web Page at Oxford University
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