Background
Charlesworth, Brian was born on April 29, 1945 in Brighton, Sussex, England. Son of Francis Gustave and Mary (Ryan) Charlesworth. came to the United States, 1985.
biologist genetics and evolution educator
Charlesworth, Brian was born on April 29, 1945 in Brighton, Sussex, England. Son of Francis Gustave and Mary (Ryan) Charlesworth. came to the United States, 1985.
Charlesworth gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from Queens' College, Cambridge, followed by a PhD in genetics in 1969 for research into genetic variation in viability in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Since 1997, he has been Royal Society Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) in Edinburgh. He returned to Chicago, to be professor of ecology and evolution from 1985 to 1997 after which he moved to Edinburgh. Charlesworth has worked extensively on understanding sequence evolution, using the fruit fly as a model species, and has also contributed theoretical work on aging, the evolution of recombination and the evolution of sex chromosomes.
In April 2010, the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B was dedicated to honour Brian's contribution to the field of population genetics.
(In this new edition, Brian Charlesworth provides a compre...)
(In this new edition, Brian Charlesworth provides a compre...)
(Examines theories and methods used to study age-structure...)
Fellow Royal Society London, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Genetical Society Britain, American Society Naturalists, Genetics Society American, Society Study of Evolution.
Married Deborah Maltby, August 19, 1967. 1 child, Jane.