Kevin Lala

Kevin Lala
Born
Kevin Neville Lala

(1962-10-05) 5 October 1962 (age 62)
NationalityEnglish
Other namesKevin Laland
EducationUniversity College London (Ph.D., 1990)
Alma materUniversity of Southampton
Known forNiche construction theory
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioral biology
Evolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Thesis Social transmission in Norway rats and its implications for evolutionary theory  (1990)
Doctoral advisorHenry Plotkin

Kevin Neville Lala (formerly Kevin Neville Laland; born 5 October 1962)[1][2] is an English evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Educated at the University of Southampton and University College London,[3] he was a Human Frontier Science Program fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of St Andrews in 2002. He is one of the co-founders of niche construction theory[4] and a prominent advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis.[5] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Society of Biology. He has also received a European Research Council Advanced Grant,[6] a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award,[7] and a John Templeton Foundation grant.[8] He was the president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association from 2007 to 2010[9] and a former president of the Cultural Evolution Society.[10] Lala is currently an external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.[11]

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  2. ^ "Current lab members – The Lala Lab". lalandlab.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ^ Odling-Smee, J.; Laland, K. N.; Feldman, M. W. (February 2000). "Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23 (1): 131–146, discussion 146–175. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00002417. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 11303338. S2CID 13893525.
  4. ^ Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, J.; Feldman, M. W. (2003). Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton University Press. p. 488. ISBN 9780691044378.
  5. ^ Zimmer, Carl (22 November 2016). "Scientists Seek to Update Evolution". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. ^ "ERC Funded Projects". European Research Council. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship". University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test". John Templeton Foundation. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  9. ^ "archived:www.cambridge.org/core/membership/ehbea/about-us". cambridge.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  10. ^ "About Us". culturalevolutionsociety.org. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  11. ^ "People | External Faculty | Discover The KLI". kli.ac.at. Retrieved 10 March 2023.