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Born | Marcus William Feldman 14 November 1942 Perth, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Citizenship | American (naturalised 1994) |
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Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
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Thesis | Some Topics in Theoretical Population Genetics (1969) |
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Marcus William Feldman (born 14 November 1942) is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences, director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, and co-director of the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) at Stanford University.[4] He is an Australian-born mathematician turned American theoretical biologist, best known for his mathematical evolutionary theory and computational studies in evolutionary biology,[5][6] and for originating with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza the theory of cultural evolution.