Mark Ridley

Mark Ridley
Born	England
Nationality	British (English)
Fields	Zoology, Evolutionary biology
Institutions	University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Richard Dawkins

Mark Ridley (born 1956) is a British zoologist and writer on evolution. He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s (his doctoral advisor being Richard Dawkins), was a professor at Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A., and - as of 2005 - works at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Ridley has worked on the evolution of reproductive behaviour and written a number of popular accounts of evolutionary biology, including articles for the New York Times, The Sunday Times, Nature, New Scientist and The Times Literary Supplement. He claims to be honoured to be frequently confused for Matt Ridley, another writer on evolution who is also from the UK.

Published works

• Evolution
• Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life
  • Released in the USA with the title: The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
• Animal Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Mechanisms, Development, and Ecology
• The Problems of Evolution
• The Essential Darwin
• Evolution and classification: The reformation of cladism
• Narrow Roads of Geneland (with W. D. Hamilton)
• The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating
• Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: 1985 (with Richard Dawkins)
• Animal Behaviour: A Concise Introduction
• Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think (editor, with Alan Grafen)

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