Sergey Gavrilets

Sergey Gavrilets
Born Сергей Юрьевич Гаврилец
Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality
United States, Russia
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical evolutionary biology, social and cultural evolution
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Yuri Svirezhev

Sergey Gavrilets is a Russian-born physicist turned American theoretical biologist, currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee.[2][3][4] He is a theoretical evolutionary biologist who has made contributions to the study of speciation, social complexity, and human evolutionary transitions. He is currently Associate Director for Scientific Activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]

Gavrilets has contributed to the book Evolution: The Extended Synthesis (Edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller, 2010).[6]

Publications

Books

  • Gavrilets, S. (2004), Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691119830
  • Rice, W.R.; Gavrilets, S.(eds.) (2014), The Genetics and Biology of Sexual Conflict, Cold Spring Harbor, ISBN 978-1-621820-59-8

References

  1. ↑ https://www.theaga.org/toronto-key-lecture.htm
  2. ↑ "Sergey Gavrilets". utk.edu. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Gavrilets, Sergey". utk.edu. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sergey Gavrilets". scholar.google.com. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "American Academy Arts and Sciences 2017 Fellows List". Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Evolution, the Extended Synthesis". Retrieved July 1, 2018.


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