Graham Bell (biologist)
Graham Bell | |
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Bell in 2016 | |
| Born | 3 March 1949 Leicester, England |
| Education | Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys |
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Spouse |
Susan Rosinger (m. 1971) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The life of the smooth newt (Triturus vulgaris (Linn)) (1973) |
Graham Arthur Charlton Bell FRS FRSC (born 3 March 1949) is a British academic, writer, and evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of sexual reproduction and the maintenance of variation. He developed the "tangled bank" theory of evolutionary genetics after observing the asexual and sexual behaviour patterns of aphids as well as monogonont rotifers.