Jump to content

Alan Grafen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mais oui! (talk | contribs) at 17:37, 15 September 2016 (Typo). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Alan Grafen
Born
Dollar, Clackmannanshire
NationalityScottish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Scientific career
FieldsEthology, Evolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe economics of evolutionary stability (1984)
Doctoral advisorRichard Dawkins
Doctoral studentsLaurence Hurst
Websiteusers.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

  • Hails, Rosemary; Grafen, Alan (2002). Modern statistics for the life sciences. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-925231-9.

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.
Stub icon

This article about a biologist from Scotland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Grafen&oldid=739598304"