Mark Pagel is known for comparative studies in evolutionary biology.
10 Facts About Mark Pagel
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In 1994, with his spouse, anthropologist Ruth Mace, Pagel pioneered the Comparative Method in Anthropology.
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Mark Pagel was a student educated at the University of Washington where he was awarded a PhD in Mathematics in 1980 for work on ridge regression.
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Mark Pagel was the editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia of Evolution, published in 2002.
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Mark Pagel authored Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation, which was voted one of best science books of 2012 by The Guardian.
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Mark Pagel's partner is Ruth Mace, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London.
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Mark Pagel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011.
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Mark Pagel is distinguished for having shown how a combination of phylogenetic trees of species and knowledge of their features can be used to reconstruct the evolutionary past and how it gave rise to the present.
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Mark Pagel has introduced novel statistical modeling techniques that provide solutions to outstanding problems of trait evolution.
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Mark Pagel has used his approaches to address and solve questions of fundamental importance involving speciation, adaptation, punctuational evolution and human cultural and linguistic evolution.