__notoc__ David Addison Haig (born 28 June 1958) is an Australian

evolutionary biologist Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life for ...

geneticist A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a scientist or a lecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic processes ...

, and professor in

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent–offspring conflict, and wrote the book ''Genomic Imprinting and Kinship''. His major contribution to the field of evolutionary theory is the kinship theory of genomic imprinting.

Significant papers

* Haig, D. (1993). ''Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy.'' Quarterly Review of Biology, 68, 495-532. * Haig, D. (1997) ''The social gene.'' In Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (editors) Behavioural Ecology: an Evolutionary Approach, pp. 284-304. Blackwell Publishers, London. * Haig, D. (2000) ''The kinship theory of genomic imprinting.'' Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 31, 9-32. * Wilkins, J. F. & Haig, D. (2003) ''What good is genomic imprinting: the function of parent-specific gene expression.'' Nature Reviews Genetics, 4, 359-368. * Haig, D. (2004) ''Genomic imprinting and kinship: how good is the evidence?'' Annual Review of Genetics, 38, 553-585.

Books

* Haig, D. (2002) ''Genomic Imprinting and Kinship''. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ. * Haig, D. (2020) ''From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life''. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

References

External links

Official site at Harvard University

Harvard Gazette news about David Haig
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