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Kevin Laland
Born
Kevin Neville Laland

(1962-10-05) 5 October 1962 (age 62)
NationalityEngland
EducationUniversity College London (Ph.D., 1990)
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioral biology
Evolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Thesis Social 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 a prominent advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)[3], co-winning a multi-million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation to put the EES to the test[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 and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Laland, Kevin N." Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  2. ^ Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, J.; 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. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2016-11-22). "Scientists Seek to Update Evolution". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  4. ^ "Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test". John Templeton Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  5. ^ "Kevin Laland". Santa Fe Institute. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
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