British zoologist and writerFor other people named Mark Ridley, see Mark Ridley (disambiguation).Not to be confused with another science writer with a similar name, Matt Ridley.

Mark Ridley (born 1956) is a British zoologist and writer on evolution.

He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s (his doctoral advisor being Richard Dawkins), and later worked at Emory University. As of 2010 he worked as a research *istant at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Ridley has worked on the evolution of reproductive behaviour and written a number of popular accounts of evolutionary biology, including articles for the New York Times, The Sunday Times, Nature, New Scientist and The Times Literary Supplement. He is sometimes confused with Matt Ridley, another writer on evolution who is also from the UK.

Published works

• Ridley, Mark 1993. Evolution Blackwell; 2nd ed 1996 Blackwell ISBN:0-86542-495-0; 3rd ed 2003 Wiley ISBN:978-1-4051-0345-9. A comprehensive textbook: case studies, commentary, dedicated website and CD.
• Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life 2001 ISBN:978-0-7538-1410-9
  • Released in the US with the *le: The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings 2001 ISBN:978-0-7432-0161-2
• Animal Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Mechanisms, Development, and Ecology 1995 ISBN:978-0-632-01416-3
• The Problems of Evolution 1985 ISBN:978-0-19-219194-6
• The Darwin Reader (Second Edition) 1996 ISBN:978-0-393-96967-2
• How to Read Darwin 2006 ISBN:978-0-393-32881-3
• Evolution and cl*ification: The reformation of cladism 1986 ISBN:978-0-582-44497-3
• Narrow Roads of Geneland (with W. D. Hamilton) 2006 ISBN:978-0-19-856690-8
• The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating 1983 ISBN:978-0-19-857597-9
• Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: 1985 (with Richard Dawkins) Vol. 2 1986 ISBN:978-0-19-854174-5, Vol. 3 1987 ISBN:978-0-19-854199-8
• Animal Behaviour: A Concise Introduction 1995 ISBN:978-0-86542-390-9
• Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think (editor, with Alan Grafen) 2007 ISBN:978-0-19-921466-2

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