- Alan Grafen
Infobox Scientist
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name = Alan Grafen
birth_place =Dollar, Scotland
nationality = British (Scottish)
field =Ethology ,Evolutionary biology
work_institutions =University of Oxford
doctoral_advisor =Richard Dawkins Alan Grafen is a Scottish ethologist and evolutionary biologist. He currently teaches and undertakes research at
St John's College, Oxford . Along with regular contributions to scientific journals, Grafen is known publicly for his work as co-editor of the 2006festschrift "", honouring the achievements of his colleague and former academic advisor. He has worked extensively in the field of Biologicalgame theory , and, in 1990, devised a model showing that Zahavi's well-knownHandicap principle could theoretically exist in natural populations. [Grafen, A. (1990) Biological signals as handicaps. Journal of Theoretical Biology 144:517-546.]Bibliography
* "Modern Statistics for the Life Sciences". Co-author, with Rosie Hails. 2002.
* "Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think". Co-editor, with Mark Ridley. 2006.References
External links
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~grafen/ Alan Grafen's Web Page at Oxford University]
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