| Alan Grafen | |
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| Born | Dollar, Clackmannanshire |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Fields | Ethology, Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Dawkins |
| Doctoral students | Laurence Hurst |
| Alan Grafen |
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Alan Grafen is a Scottish ethologist and evolutionary biologist. He currently teaches and undertakes research at St John's College, Oxford.[1] Along with regular contributions to scientific journals, Grafen is known publicly for his work as co-editor (with Mark Ridley) of the 2006 festschrift Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think,[2] honouring the achievements of his colleague and former academic advisor. He has worked extensively in the field of Biological game theory, and, in 1990, devised a model showing that Zahavi's well-known Handicap principle could theoretically exist in natural populations.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 [4]
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