Bernard Crespi

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Bernard Crespi

Bernard Joseph Crespi is an American evolutionary and sociobiologist . Since 1992 he has been researching and teaching at Simon Fraser University .

Scientific career

Crespi graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1980 . In 1987 he completed his doctorate at the University of Michigan , where he had worked with William D. Hamilton and Richard D. Alexander . His dissertation was entitled Behavioral ecology of mycophagous Thysanoptera . After postdoctoral positions at the University of New South Wales , the University of Oxford and Cornell University , Crespi became Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in 1992 . He has been a professor there since 2001 . In 2010, Crespi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

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In his research, Crespi deals with genetic , ecological and phylogenetic aspects of the evolution of social coordination among living things. Outside of biological specialist circles, Crespi was best known for the Imprinted Brain Theory , which was developed together with the sociologist Christopher Badcock, and which deals with the role of genomic imprinting in the development of the human brain. Among other things, this states that autism and psychosis (including mood disorders and schizophrenia ) are opposite extremes of the same spectrum of cognitive abilities.

Publications

Anthologies

  • Mark A. Elgar, Bernard J. Crespi (Eds.): Cannibalism: Ecology and Evolution Among Diverse Taxa . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-854650-5 .
  • Jae C. Choe, Bernard J. Crespi (Eds.): The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-58029-3 .
  • Jae C. Choe, Bernard J. Crespi (Eds.): The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-58028-5 .
  • Kyle Summers, Bernard J. Crespi (Eds.): Human Social Evolution: The Foundational Works of Richard D. Alexander . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-979175-0 .

Articles (selection)

  • Bernard J. Crespi: Causes of assortative mating in arthropods . In: Animal Behavior . tape 38 , no. 6 , 1989, pp. 980-1000 , doi : 10.1016 / S0003-3472 (89) 80138-1 .
  • Bernard J. Crespi: Eusociality in Australian gall thrips . In: Nature . tape 359 , 1992, pp. 724-726 , doi : 10.1038 / 359724a0 .
  • Bernard J. Crespi, Douglas Yanega: The definition of eusociality . In: Behavioral Ecology . tape 6 , no. 1 , 1995, p. 109–115 , doi : 10.1093 / beheco / 6.1.109 .
  • Bernard J. Crespi: The evolution of social behavior in microorganisms . In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution . tape 16 , no. 4 , 2001, p. 178-183 , doi : 10.1016 / S0169-5347 (01) 02115-2 .
  • Christopher Badcock, Bernard Crespi: Imbalanced genomic imprinting in brain development: an evolutionary basis for the aetiology of autism . In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology . tape 19 , no. 4 , 2006, p. 1007-1032 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1420-9101.2006.01091.x .
  • Christopher Badcock, Bernard Crespi: Battle of the sexes may set the brain . In: Nature . tape 454 , 2008, p. 1054-1055 , doi : 10.1038 / 4541054a .
  • Bernard Crespi, Christopher Badcock: Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain . In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences . tape 31 , no. 3 , 2008, p. 241-261 , doi : 10.1017 / S0140525X08004214 .
  • Bernard Crespi, Philip Stead, Michael Elliot: Comparative genomics of autism and schizophrenia . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 107 , 1 (Supplement), 2010, pp. 1736-1741 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0906080106 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Royal Society of Canada (RSC): New Fellows 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 231 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mcgill.ca  
  2. ↑ Benedict Carey: In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents' Genes Are in Competition. New York Times, November 10, 2008, accessed June 3, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Christof Goddemeier: Genius, Genes, Gender, and Madness. Friday, October 29, 2009, accessed on June 3, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Crespi, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crespi, Bernard Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evolutionary and sociobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century