Kevin Lala | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kevin Neville Lala 5 October 1962 |
| Nationality | English |
| Other names | Kevin Laland |
| Education | University College London (Ph.D., 1990) |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Known for | Niche construction theory |
| Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Behavioral biology Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | University of St Andrews |
| Thesis | Social transmission in Norway rats and its implications for evolutionary theory (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Plotkin |
Kevin Neville Lala (formerly Kevin Neville Laland; born 5 October 1962)[1][2] 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,[3] 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 one of the co-founders of niche construction theory[4] and a prominent advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis.[5] 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,[6] a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award,[7] and a John Templeton Foundation grant.[8] He was the president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association from 2007 to 2010[9] and a former president of the Cultural Evolution Society.[10] Lala is currently an external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.[11]
- ^ "Laland, Kevin N." Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Current lab members – The Lala Lab". lalandlab.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ Odling-Smee, J.; Laland, K. N.; 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. S2CID 13893525.
- ^ Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, J.; Feldman, M. W. (2003). Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton University Press. p. 488. ISBN 9780691044378.
- ^ Zimmer, Carl (22 November 2016). "Scientists Seek to Update Evolution". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "ERC Funded Projects". European Research Council. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship". University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test". John Templeton Foundation. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "archived:www.cambridge.org/core/membership/ehbea/about-us". cambridge.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ "About Us". culturalevolutionsociety.org. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ "People | External Faculty | Discover The KLI". kli.ac.at. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
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