Staff Profile:Professor Mark Pagel

Name:

Professor Mark Pagel

Job Title:

Academic, Philip Lyle Building

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Areas of Interest:

Head of Bioinformatics Laboratory

Molecular Evolution and Adaptation

• genome organisation
• genomic imprinting
• genomic conflict
• prion protein evolution

Statistical Methods for Comparative Studies

• methods of analysis for discrete and continuously varying characters
• reconstruction of ancestral character states
• Markov-chain monte carlo methods for comparative studies

Evolutionary Theory and Behavioural Ecology

• signalling theory
• arms races

Linguistic Evolution

• language phylogenies
• language evolution

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