Paul H. Harvey

Paul Harvey
Born	Paul H. Harvey January 19, 1947[1]
Institutions	University of Oxford
Alma mater	University of York (BA, DPhil)
Thesis	Studies on the polymorphism of cepaea nemoralis (1971)
Doctoral students	fifty in total
Other notable students	Andrew F. Read Georgina Mace
Notable awards	DSc (1989) FRS (1992)[2] CBE (2008)
Website www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/harvey_p.htm

Paul H. Harvey CBE FRS (born 19 January 1947) is a British evolutionary biologist. He is Professor of Zoology and was head of the zoology department at Oxford University from 1998 - 2011 and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 2000 - 2011, holding these posts in conjunction with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford.^[3]

Awards and honours

Harvey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992 in recognition of his status as a leading evolutionary biologist of his era. Harvey was awarded the Scientific Medal and the Frink Award from the Zoological Society of London, the J. Murray Luck Award from the National Academy of Sciences, and the University of Helsinki Medal.

From 2000-2011, he served as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (constitutionally the Chief Executive responsible for London and Whipsnade Zoos, the Institute of Zoology, and the Conservation Programmes)

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.^[4]

Selected Publications by Harvey

• Garland, T., Jr., Harvey, P.H., & Ives, A.R.. 1992. Procedures for the analysis of comparative data using phylogenetically independent contrasts. Systematic Biology 41:18-32. PDF
• Harvey, P.H. Martin, R.D., & Clutton-Brock, T.H. (1987) Life Histories in Comparative Perspective. In Primate Societies. Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T. (eds). Chicago & London:University of Chicago Press. pp. 181–196 ISBN 0-226-76715-9
• Harvey, P.H. & Pagel, M.D. (1991) The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Oxford Monographs in Ecology and Evolution edited by Harvey, P.H. and May, R.M.. Oxford University Press.
• Pybus, O.G.; Rambaut, A; Holmes, E.C.; Harvey, P.H. (2002). "New inferences from tree shape: numbers of missing taxa and population growth rates". Syst. Biol 51 (6): 881–888. doi:10.1080/10635150290102582. PMID 12554454.
• Pybus, O.G.; Charleston, M.A.; Gupta, S.; Rambaut, A; Holmes, E.C.; Harvey, P.H. (2001). "The epidemic behaviour of the Hepatitis C virus". Science 292 (5525): 2323–2325. doi:10.1126/science.1058321. PMID 11423661.
• Freckleton, R.P.; Harvey, P.H. (2006). "Detecting Non-Brownian Trait Evolution in Adaptive Radiations". PLoS Biology 4 (11): e373. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040373. PMC 1634878. PMID 17090217.
• Kelly, C.K.; Bowler, M.G.; Pybus, O.; Harvey, P.H. (2008). "Phylogeny, niches and relative abundance in natural communities". Ecology 89 (4): 962–970. doi:10.1890/07-0322.1. PMID 18481521.. Also see Leibold, Mathew A. (2008). "Ecology: Return of the niche". Nature 454 (7200): 39–41. doi:10.1038/454039a. PMID 18596794. and Sugden, A. M. (2008). "ECOLOGY: Deterministic Competition". Science 320 (5878): 851a–851a. doi:10.1126/science.320.5878.851a.
• Charlesworth, B.; Harvey, P. (2005). "John Maynard Smith. 6 January 1920 - 19 April 2004: Elected F.R.S. 1977". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 51 (3): 253–265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2005.0016. PMC 1448785. PMID 15579672.

References

1. HARVEY, Prof. Paul H. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
2. https://royalsociety.org/people/paul-harvey-11578/
3. "Professor Paul Harvey". Jesus College, Oxford. 2008-05-23. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58729. p. 7. 14 June 2008.