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

References

  1. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~grafen/ Alan Grafen's Web Page at Oxford University
  2. Ridley, Mark; Grafen, Alan (2006). Richard Dawkins: how a scientist changed the way we think: reflections by scientists, writers, and philosophers. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-929116-0.
  3. Grafen, A. (1990). "Biological signals as handicaps". Journal of Theoretical Biology 144 (4): 517–546. doi:10.1016/S0022-5193(05)80088-8. PMID 2402153.
  4. Grafen, A. 1989. The phylogenetic regression. Phil. Trans. Royal. Soc. Lond. B 326:119-157.
  5. "Professor Alan Grafen FRS". Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-03-18.


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