Paul Harvey

CBE FRS
Born
Paul H. Harvey

(1947-01-19) 19 January 1947[1]
Alma materUniversity of York (BA, DPhil)
AwardsDSc (1989)
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisStudies on the polymorphism of cepaea nemoralis (1971)
Doctoral students
Other notable students
Websitezoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/harvey_p.htm

Paul H. Harvey CBE FRS[5] (born 19 January 1947) is a British evolutionary biologist. He is Professor of Zoology and was head of the zoology department at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2011 and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 2000 to 2011, holding these posts in conjunction with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford.[6]

Education

Harvey was educated at the University of York where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

Research and career

Harvey has led the development of robust statistical methods to decipher evolutionary relationships. His work has applied a rigorous basis to the comparative method in evolutionary biology — employed since the days of Charles Darwin — and as such, he has shaped modern thinking in the field.[5] The comparative method of evolutionary biology is used to correlate characteristics between species. Paul pioneered techniques to use the data and knowledge available in modern science, whilst avoiding artefacts, in untangling the evolutionary relationships between organisms. These problem-solving tools for evolutionary studies have become widely used.[5]

His former students include Oliver Pybus,[2] Georgina Mace,[2] Andrew Read,[2] Andrew Rambaut[2][3] and Eddie Holmes.[4]

Selected publications

Awards and honours

Harvey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992 in recognition of his status as a leading evolutionary biologist of his era. Harvey was awarded the Scientific Medal and the Frink Award from the Zoological Society of London, the J. Murray Luck Award from the National Academy of Sciences, and the University of Helsinki Medal. He is an ISI highly cited researcher.

From 2000 to 2011, he served as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (constitutionally the Chief Executive responsible for London and Whipsnade Zoos, the Institute of Zoology, and the Conservation Programmes)

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Anon (2015). "Harvey, Prof. Paul H.". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U19381. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Paul Harvey: Evolution tree". academictree.org.
  3. 1 2 Rambaut, Andrew (1997). The inference of evolutionary and population dynamic processes from molecular phylogenies. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 556744675. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.339299.
  4. 1 2 Holmes, Eddie (2017). "Edward C. Holmes - Curriculum Vitae". University of Sydney.
  5. 1 2 3 Anon (2000). "Professor Paul Harvey CBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ↑ "Professor Paul Harvey". Jesus College, Oxford. 23 May 2008. Archived from the original on 1 June 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2008.
  7. ↑ "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 7.


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