Biography:Kevin Laland

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Short description: English evolutionary biologist
Kevin Laland
Born
Kevin Neville Laland

(1962-10-05) 5 October 1962 (age 61)
NationalityEngland
EducationUniversity College London (Ph.D., 1990)
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioral biology
Evolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
ThesisSocial transmission in Norway rats and its implications for evolutionary theory (1990)

Kevin Neville Laland (born 5 October 1962)[1] is an English evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Educated at the University of Southampton and University College London,[2] he was a Human Frontier Science Program fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of St Andrews in 2002. He is one of the co-founders of niche construction theory[3] and a prominent advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES).[4] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Society of Biology. He has also received a European Research Council Advanced Grant,[5] a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award,[6] and a John Templeton Foundation grant.[7]

Bibliography

  • Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind, Princeton University Press, 2017 ISBN:9780691151182
  • Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models, Princeton University Press, 2013, William Hoppitt and Kevin N. Laland ISBN:9780691150703
  • Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour, Oxford University Press, 2011, Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown, 2nd edition ISBN:9780199586967
  • Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution, Princeton University Press, 2003, John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Laland, Marcus W. Feldman ISBN:9780691044378
  • Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour, Oxford University Press, 2002, Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown, 1st edition ISBN:9780198508847

References

  1. ↑ "Laland, Kevin N.". http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2002042997.html. 
  2. ↑ Odling-Smee, J.; Laland, K. N.; Feldman, M. W. (February 2000). "Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (1): 131–146; discussion 146–175. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00002417. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 11303338. 
  3. ↑ Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, J.; Feldman, M. W. (2003). Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton University Press. p. 488. ISBN 9780691044378. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691044378/niche-construction. 
  4. ↑ Zimmer, Carl (2016-11-22). "Scientists Seek to Update Evolution". https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-seek-to-update-evolution-20161122/. 
  5. ↑ "ERC Funded Projects". https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results?search_api_views_fulltext=evoculture. 
  6. ↑ "Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship" (in en). https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/prizes/royal-society-wolfson-fellowship(8ad02670-a679-4730-b250-957f23210d7d).html. 
  7. ↑ "Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test.". https://www.templeton.org/grant/putting-the-extended-evolutionary-synthesis-to-the-test. 

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