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