doctoral_advisor thesis_year birth_place nationality work_institutions field thesis_url article_title name thesis_title
richard dawkins 1987 england british -lrb- english -rrb- university of oxford zoology , evolutionary biology http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dldisplay.do?vid=oxvu1&amp;docid=oxfaleph015015408 mark ridley -lrb- zoologist -rrb-
 mark ridley the comparative economics of reproductive behaviour
mark ridley -lrb- zoologist -rrb-

mark ridley -lrb- born 1956 -rrb- is a british zoologist and writer on evolution .
he studied at both oxford and cambridge in the 1980s -lrb- his doctoral advisor being richard dawkins -rrb- , was a professor at emory university , atlanta , u.s.a. , and - as of 2005 - works at the department of zoology , oxford university .
ridley has worked on the evolution of reproductive behaviour and written a number of popular accounts of evolutionary biology , including articles for the `` new york times '' , `` the sunday times '' , `` nature '' , `` new scientist '' and `` the times literary supplement '' .
he claims to be honoured to be frequently confused for matt ridley , another writer on evolution who is also from the uk .
