Alan Count

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Alan Grafen (* 1956 in Dollar , United Kingdom ) is a Scottish behavioral and evolutionary biologist and Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Oxford . Grafen worked extensively in the field of biological game theory . In 1990 he showed in a theory based on mathematical evidence that the handicap principle developed by Amotz Zahavi can actually exist in nature.

He also published a seminal paper in the field of phylogenetic comparative methods , in which he demonstrated how phylogenetically based statistical analysis can be performed by tools of the generalized least squares method .

Alan Grafen is a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Trivia

He honored his former academic advisor Richard Dawkins in 2006 with the book Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Evolution and Its Influence (Herbert Spencer Lecture). Clarendon Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-827275-5 .
  • with Rosie Heils: Modern Statistics for the Life Sciences. Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-925231-2 .
  • with Mark Ridley : Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think. Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-929116-8 .
  • Biological Fitness and the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection. In: The American Naturalist. Volume 186, No. 1, 2015, pp. 1-14, doi: 10.1086 / 681585 .
  • with Paul Crewe and Richard Gratwick: Defining fitness in an uncertain world. In: Journal of Mathematical Biology. Volume 76, No. 5, 2018, pp. 1059-1099, doi: 10.1007 / s00285-017-1164-z .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan Grafen: Sexual selection unhandicapped by the fisher process. In: Journal of Theoretical Biology. Vol. 144, No. 4, 1990, pp. 473-516, doi: 10.1016 / S0022-5193 (05) 80087-6 .
  2. ^ Alan Grafen: Biological signals as handicaps. In: Journal of Theoretical Biology. Vol. 144, No. 4, 1990, pp. 517-546, doi: 10.1016 / S0022-5193 (05) 80088-8 .
  3. ↑ Alan Count. On: royalsociety.org , last viewed on November 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Count, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish ethnologist, evolutionary biologist and Oxford professor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1960