Mark Ridley (zoologist)
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Mark Ridley (born 1956), not to be confused with Matt Ridley, is a United Kingdom zoologist and writer on evolution.
He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s, was a professor at Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A., and as of 2005 works at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University.
He 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.
[edit] Published works
- Evolution
- Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life
- The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
- Animal Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Mechanisms, Development, and Ecology
- The Problems of Evolution
- The Essential Darwin
- Evolution and classification: The reformation of cladism
- Narrow Roads of Geneland (with W. D. Hamilton)
- The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating
- Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: 1985 (with Richard Dawkins)
- Animal Behaviour: A Concise Introduction
[edit] References
- Profile of Ridley from the Institute of Cultural Research. Accessed 2005-04-23.
