John Alcock (biologist)

John Alcock (* 1942 ) is an American biologist . He is professor emeritus at Arizona State University and author of a standard work on behavioral biology .

Life

Alcock graduated from Amherst College ( BS , 1965). In 1969 he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University . He was an assistant professor at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1972 and from 1972 to 1974 at Arizona State University, where he has been a professor ever since. He was visiting professor at Monash University (1978/1979) and at Cornell University (1984). Alcock was a visiting scholar at the University of Western Australia and the University of New England .

job

Alcock's research interests are the evolution of insect mating systems . He studies bees , wasps , butterflies and dragonflies in Arizona and Western Australia .

Fonts (selection)

• Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach. 9th edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-87893-225-2 .
  • Animal behavior from an evolutionary perspective. G. Fischer, Stuttgart, Jena and New York 1996, ISBN 978-3-437-20531-6 . German translation of the 5th engl. Edition (1993).
• The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-516335-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about John Alcock in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Alcock on the Arizona State University website
• CV (PDF; 136 kB)
• Literature by and about John Alcock (biologist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat