Mark Ridley (zoologist) explained
| Mark Ridley |
| Birth Place: | England |
| Nationality: | British (English) |
| Field: | Zoology, Evolutionary biology |
| Work Institutions: | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Richard Dawkins |
| Thesis Title: | The comparative economics of reproductive behaviour |
| Thesis Year: | 1982 |
| Thesis Url: | http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXVU1&docId=oxfaleph015015408 |
Mark Ridley (born 1956) is a British zoologist and writer on evolution.
He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s (his doctoral advisor being Richard Dawkins), and later worked at Emory University. he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University.[1] Ridley has worked on the evolution of reproductive behaviour and written a number of popular accounts of evolutionary biology, including articles for the New York Times, The Sunday Times, Nature, New Scientist and The Times Literary Supplement. He is sometimes confused with Matt Ridley, another writer on evolution who is also from the UK.[2]
Published works
- Ridley, Mark 1993. Evolution Blackwell; 2nd ed 1996 Blackwell ; 3rd ed 2003 Wiley . A comprehensive textbook: case studies, commentary, dedicated website and CD.
- Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life 2001
- Released in the US with the title: The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings 2001
- Animal Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Mechanisms, Development, and Ecology 1995
- The Problems of Evolution 1985
- The Darwin Reader (Second Edition) 1996
- How to Read Darwin 2006
- Evolution and classification: The reformation of cladism 1986
- Narrow Roads of Geneland (with W. D. Hamilton) 2006
- The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating 1983
- Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: 1985 (with Richard Dawkins) Vol. 2 1986, Vol. 3 1987
- Animal Behaviour: A Concise Introduction 1995
- (editor, with Alan Grafen) 2007
Notes and References
- Web site: Animal Behaviour Research Group . . 2010-03-30 . 2017-07-14 .
- Book: Dawkins, Richard. The Oxford book of modern science writing. 2008. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-921680-2 . 180014200 . Richard Dawkins . 59 .
