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

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