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Michod, Richard Earl was born on May 11, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Louis and Florence Michod.
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Darwinian Dynamics
( The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense...)
The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense debate among evolutionary biologists and their critics, with its definition and explanatory power coming under attack. In this book, Richard Michod offers a fresh, dynamical interpretation of evolution and fitness concepts. He argues that evolution has no enduring products; what matters is the process of genetic change. Whereas many biologists have focused on competition and aggression as determining factors in survival, Michod, by concentrating on the emergence of individuality at new and more complex levels, finds that cooperation plays even a greater role. Michod first considers the principles behind the hierarchically nested levels of organization that constitute life: genes, chromosomes, genomes, cells, multicellular organisms, and societies. By examining the evolutionary transitions from the molecular level up to the whole organism, the author explains how cooperation and conflict in a multilevel setting leads to new levels of fitness. He builds a model of fitness drawing on recent developments in ecology and multilevel selection theory and on new explanations of the origin of life. Michod concludes with a discussion of the philosophical implications of his theory of fitness, a theory that addresses the most fundamental and unique concept in all of biology.
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Richard Earl Michod
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Richard Earl Michod, American biologist. Achievements include research in theoretical population biology; in experimental evolutionary genetics of bacteria; in philosophy of biology; in selection in neural networks. Member Society of the Study of Evolution, Genetics Society of America, American Society Naturalists, Ecological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Microbiol. Society.
Education
Bachelor in Zoology cum laude, Duke University, 1973. Master of Arts in Mathematics, University Georgia, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology, University Georgia, 1978.
Career
Assistant professor department ecology and evolutionary biology, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1978-1982;
associate professor department ecology and evolutionary biology, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1982-1987;
professor department ecology and evolutionary biology, U. Arizona, Tucson, since 1987. Panel member genetics study section National Institutes of Health. Grants reviewer National Science Foundation.
Consultant Neuroscis. Institute, Rockefeller U., 1987. Visiting research professor of University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1990-1991.
Member steering committee Interdisciplinary Conference on Founds. of Evolutionary Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1988. Co-organizer Interdisciplinary Conference "Towards a Science Analysis of Values, " U.Ariz., 1989.
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Darwinian Dynamics
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Darwinian Dynamics
Membership
Member Society of the Study of Evolution, Genetics Society of America, American Society Naturalists, Ecological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Microbiol.
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Children: Kristin Olivia, Kayley Annual.
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1973
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1978
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Grantee National Science Foundation DEB, 1982-1985, 89-91, National Institutes of Health biomedical Research Support grantee, grantee National Science Foundation BSR, 1985-1986, American Cancer Society Institutional Research grantee, grantee National Institutes of Health, 1986-1989, National Institutes of Health biomedical Research Support co-grantee, 1986-1988, 88-89, grantee National Science Foundation, 1988, 89-92, grantee National Institutes of Health, 1990-1995. Recipient National Institutes of Health Research Career Development award, 1984-1989. Research fellow Neuroscis. Institute, Rockefeller University, 1984.Grantee National Science Foundation DEB, 1982-1985, 89-91, National Institutes of Health biomedical Research Support grantee, grantee National Science Foundation BSR, 1985-1986, American Cancer Society Institutional Research grantee, grantee National Institutes of Health, 1986-1989, National Institutes of Health biomedical Research Support co-grantee, 1986-1988, 88-89, grantee National Science Foundation, 1988, 89-92, grantee National Institutes of Health, 1990-1995. Recipient National Institutes of Health Research Career Development award, 1984-1989. Research fellow Neuroscis.
Institute, Rockefeller University, 1984.