Prof Andy Gardner

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463385

Email

andy.gardner@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

I work on Darwinian adaptation. Natural selection explains the appearance of design in the living world, but at what level is this design expected to manifest ? gene, individual, society ? and what is its function? Social evolution provides a window on this problem, by pitting the interests of genes, individuals and societies against each other. I develop general theory on the topics of inclusive fitness and multilevel selection, and also tailor general theory to the biology of particular species to facilitate empirical testing. I work on a wide range of biological systems, including viruses, bacteria, protozoa, crustaceans, insects, fish and humans. Visit my webpage at http://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/gardner/ for more information.

PhD supervision

• Thomas Hitchcock
• Kerstin Stucky

Selected publications

• Does kin discrimination promote cooperation?

  Faria, G. & Gardner, A., Mar 2020, In : Biology Letters. 16, 3, 4 p., 20190742.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Kin discrimination and demography modulate patterns of sexual conflict

  Faria, G., Gardner, A. & Carazo, P., 25 May 2020, In : Nature Ecology and Evolution. First Online

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Price's equation made clear

  Gardner, A., Apr 2020, In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences. 375, 1797, 7 p., 20190361.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Resource heterogeneity and the evolution of public-goods cooperation

  Stilwell, P., O'Brien, S., Hesse, E., Lowe, C., Gardner, A. & Buckling, A., 4 Feb 2020, In : Evolution Letters. Early View

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The demography of human warfare can drive sex differences in altruism

  Micheletti, A. J. C., Ruxton, G. D. & Gardner, A., 20 Feb 2020, In : Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2, 15 p., e7.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Author Correction: Inference of ecological and social drivers of human brain-size evolution (Nature, (2018), 557, 7706, (554-557), 10.1038/s41586-018-0127-x)

  González-Forero, M. & Gardner, A., 7 Mar 2019, In : Nature. 567, 7746, 1 p., E4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Comment/debate

• Fisher?s reproductive value

  Gardner, A., 2019, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (eds.). Cham: Springer

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Genomic imprinting as a window into human language evolution

  Hitchcock, T., Paracchini, S. & Gardner, A., Jun 2019, In : BioEssays. 41, 6, 11 p., 1800212.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• How to make a haploid male

  Ross, L., Davies, N. & Gardner, A., 7 Mar 2019, In : Evolution Letters. Early View, 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Parent-of-origin specific gene expression and dispersal

  Hitchcock, T. & Gardner, A., Feb 2019, In : Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 25, p. 36-43 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

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