Stuart West
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Stuart A. West (born, 11th February 1970, United Kingdom) is a scientist, working in the field of social evolution, as a Professor of Zoology at the University of Edinburgh.
His primary research interests are in the area of social evolution, sex allocation theory and microbial evolution. His research has attracted much media attention [1], and has been published in high profile journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS and Current Biology.
He has won the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Zoology (2006), the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (2006) [2] and the rising star award [3] from the Duke of Edinburgh.
He is known in scientific circles for his eccentric taste in clothes and hair styles[citation needed], and particularly his "Jesus belts" and fondness for catholic icons [4] . He currently lives in Edinburgh.