- Lloyd Demetrius
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fields =Mathematician andtheoretical biologist
workplaces = Max Planck InstituteHarvard University University of California, Berkeley
alma_mater =University of Cambridge University of Chicago
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known_for =Evolutionary entropy Models of longevity
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footnotes =Lloyd A. Demetrius is a
mathematician andtheoretical biologist at theMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics atBerlin ,Germany , and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary biology,Harvard University . He is best known for the discovery of the concept, evolutionary entropy, a statistical parameter that characterizes Darwinian fitness in models of the evolution of life history.Evolutionary entropy , an analogue of theGibbs entropy instatistical physics , is the cornerstone of directionality theory, an analytical model of evolution, with applications to the study oflongevity .Education
He carried out his undergraduate studies in mathematics at the
University of Cambridge ,UK . He received his PhD in mathematical biology, from theUniversity of Chicago and was then a postdoc at theUniversity of California, Berkeley .Career
Demetrius was a faculty member in a number of mathematics departments in the USA:
University of California, Berkeley ;Brown University , andRutgers University (1971–1979); and a research scientist at theMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ,Goettingen (1980–1989). Since 1990, he has been with the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,Harvard University , Cambridge, first as a visiting professor (1990–1992), and then as an associate in population genetics. He has held visiting professorships atMIT ,University of Paris , and was an occupant of a Chaire Municipale, a distinguished visiting professorship at theUniversity of Grenoble . His research includes theapplication of ergodic theory and dynamical systems to the study of evolutionary processes in biology, and also the application of the methods of quantum statistics to study allometric scaling relations in cells.ee also
* "
Quantum Aspects of Life "
*Caloric restriction
*Longevity Notes
External links
* [http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~demetriu/ Demetrius' homepage]
* [http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/11/a-new-theory-on-longevit.html Demetrius on longevity]
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