Kevin Lala
Kevin Lala is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, U.K. Previously, he held positions at University College London, UC Berkeley and Cambridge University. His laboratory combines animal experimentation with mathematical and statistical approaches to investigate a range of topics on the interface of evolutionary biology, ecology and behavioural science, including: (i) niche construction, inclusive inheritance and the extended evolutionary synthesis, (ii) animal social learning and the evolutionary of human cognition, and (iii) human evolution, particularly gene-culture co-evolution. He has published 14 books and over 300 scientific articles on these topics, with his works cited over 60,000 times (h=115). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and recipient of a Royal Society Merit Award, Royal Society University Research Fellowship, BBSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship. Lala is also active in EDI and antiracism initiatives. Lala’s books include Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How Culture Made the Human Mind (2017), and Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (2003, with John Odling-Smee and Marcus Feldman). His most recent book, Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity (2024, with Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman & Scott Gilbert), draws on the latest findings in evolutionary genetics and evo-devo, as well as insights from studies of epigenetics, symbiosis, and inheritance, to examine the central role that developmental processes play in evolution.
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