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Mark Elgar
Mark Adrian Elgar is an Australian behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, based at the University of Melbourne since 1991. He established his reputation with research on bird foraging strategies and sexual cannibalism in spiders,Mark Elgar (1992''Cannibalism: Ecology and Evolution Among Diverse Taxa''Oxford University Press. .Mark A. Elgar, David R. Nash (1988"Sexual cannibalism in the garden spider ''Araneus diadematus''"''Animal Behaviour'', 36(5): 1511-1517 (September–October 1988). , .Mark A. Elgar, Jutta M. Schneider, Marie E. Herberstein (2000"Female control of paternity in the sexually cannibalistic spider ''Argiope keyserlingi''''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B'', 267: 2439-2443 (7 December 2000). . but now explores a variety of evolutionary questions around sexual selection, social behaviour and chemical communication. Research career In January 1980, Elgar completed his Bachelor of Science with Honours at Griffith University. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biology emerged through what Julian Huxley called the Modern synthesis (20th century), modern synthesis of understanding, from previously unrelated fields of biological research, such as genetics and ecology, systematics, and paleontology. The investigational range of current research has widened to encompass the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution, such as sexual selection, genetic drift, and biogeography. The newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryogenesis is controlled, thus yielding a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields of study covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis. Subfields ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |