Mark Ridley Mark Ridley
Department of Zoology
Oxford University

Faculty Affiliate for Evolution and the History of Life Biology News


Professional activities My interests are in two kinds of research, theoretical and synthetic. My theroretical research is concerned with the statistics of the "comparative method," the method by which adaptation is studied using patterns of similarity among unrelated species. On the synthetic level, I study adaptations in social behavior.

Teaching experience Human Evolution
Animal Behavior
Human Population Genetics
Zoology

Textbooks Evolution 1/ed (Blackwell Scientific,1993), 2ed (1997)
The Darwin Reader 1/ed (Norton,1987), 2/ed (1996)
Animal Behavior 1/ed (Blackwell Scientific, 1986), 2/ed (1995)
Evolution and Classification (Longman, 1986)
The Problems of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 1985)

Personal
 Born in England.
B.A. (1978), D. Phil. (1982), M.A. (1982) in zoology, Oxford University.
Professor at Emory University, 1989-95.
Currently teaching at Oxford University.