Mark Ridley (born 1956), not to be confused with Matt Ridley, is a United Kingdom zoologist and writer on evolution.

He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s, was a professor at Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A., and as of 2005 works at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University.

He 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.

Published works

• Evolution
• Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life
• The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
• Animal Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Mechanisms, Development, and Ecology
• The Problems of Evolution
• The Essential Darwin
• Evolution and classification: The reformation of cladism
• Narrow Roads of Geneland (with W. D. Hamilton)
• The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating
• Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: 1985 (with Richard Dawkins)
• Animal Behaviour: A Concise Introduction

References

• Profile of Ridley from the Institute of Cultural Research. Accessed 2005-04-23.

1956 births | Living people | British zoologists