__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 such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biol ...

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 process ...

, and professor in

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in

intragenomic conflict Intragenomic conflict refers to the evolutionary phenomenon where genes have phenotypic effects that promote their own transmission in detriment of the transmission of other genes that reside in the same genome. The selfish gene theory postulates ...

genomic imprinting Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that causes genes to be expressed or not, depending on whether they are inherited from the female or male parent. Genes can also be partially imprinted. Partial imprinting occurs when alleles from b ...

and

parent–offspring conflict Parent–offspring conflict (POC) is an expression coined in 1974 by Robert Trivers. It is used to describe the evolutionary conflict arising from differences in optimal parental investment (PI) in an offspring from the standpoint of the parent an ...

, 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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