Russell Lande
| Russell Scott Lande | |
|---|---|
| Born | Russell Scott Lande 1951 (age 65–66) United States |
| Citizenship | American (1951-) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biology, Genetics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, University of Oregon, University of California, San Diego, Imperial College London, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Alma mater | University of California, Irvine, University of Chicago, Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Lewontin |
| Known for | population biology, quantitative genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation biology |
| Notable awards |
Sewall Wright Award, Guggenheim Fellowship , MacArthur Fellowship, Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal, Balzan Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society, United States National Academy of Sciences |
Sewall Wright Award, Guggenheim Fellowship , MacArthur Fellowship, Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal, Balzan Prize,
Russell Scott Lande FRS (born 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and an International Chair Professor at Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University where he was a student of Richard Lewontin, and completed his Postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin under James F. Crow. He then held positions at the University of Chicago, University of Oregon, University of California, San Diego, and Imperial College London.
Lande is best known for his early work extending quantitative genetics theory to the context of evolutionary biology in natural populations. In particular, he developed a theory for the evolution of quantitative traits by genetic drift and natural selection. He also proposed a multivariate framework to describe the effect of selection on multiple correlated characters, thus helping clarify the much-debated notion of genetic constraints in phenotypic evolution. He later applied and extended these results to study a wide variety of topics in evolutionary biology, including: sexual selection, speciation, the evolution of phenotypic plasticity, of self-fertilization, of life history, of a species range in space and time.
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