Mark Pagel
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| Born | Mark David Pagel June 5, 1954 [1] Seattle, Washington, U.S.[1] |
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| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Thesis | Determinants of the Success and Failure of Ridge Regression (1980) |
| Notable awards | FRS (2011) |
| Spouse | Ruth Mace[1][2] |
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Mark David Pagel FRS (born June 5, 1954 in Seattle, Washington)[1] is a Professor and head of the Evolutionary Biology Group at the University of Reading.[1][3][4][5]
Education
Pagel was educated at the University of Washington where he was awarded a PhD in Mathematics in 1980 for work on ridge regression.[6]
Research
Pagel's interests include evolution and the development of languages.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Pagel was the editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia of Evolution published in 2002.[14] and the author of the 2012 book Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation.[15][16]
Awards and honours
Pagel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011. His nomination reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
Mark Pagel is distinguished for having shown how a combination of phylogenetic trees of species and knowledge of their features can be used to reconstruct the evolutionary past and how it gave rise to the present. He has introduced novel statistical modeling techniques that provide solutions to outstanding problems of trait evolution. These solutions have influenced how evolutionary biologists and anthropologists conduct their science and the evolutionary questions they test. He has used his approaches to address and solve questions of fundamental importance involving speciation, adaptation, punctuational evolution and human cultural and linguistic evolution.[17]
References
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- ↑ Staff Profile: Professor Mark Pagel School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading. 24 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012. Archived here
- ↑ Mark Pagel's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
- ↑ Reading Evolutionary Biology Group - Home. Archived here.
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- ↑ English language 'originated in Turkey' by Jonathan Ball, BBC News, 25 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
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- ↑ Mark Pagel at TED
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- ↑ Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation ISBN 1846140153
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- ↑ Professor Mark Pagel FRS, The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
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