Dolph Schluter | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Alma mater | |
Awards | Darwin–Wallace Medal (2014) Darwin Medal (2021) Crafoord Prize (2023) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Thesis | Diets, distributions and morphology of galapagos ground finches: the importance of food supply and interspecific competition. (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Grant |
Dolph Schluter FRS FRSC OBC (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia.[1] Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.[2]
Schluter received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Guelph in 1977, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1983, both in Ecology and Evolution.