Stuart West

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email: Stuart.West@zoo.ox.ac.uk

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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, 2009-
Professor Of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh University, 2005-2008
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Edinburgh (2002-2008) & Oxford (2009-2010) Universities, 2002-2010.
BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow, Edinburgh University, 1998-2002.
Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Edinburgh University, 1997-1998.
Visiting Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1996-1997
Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Imperial College at Silwood Park, 1995-1996.
PhD, Imperial College at Silwood Park, 1992-1995.
B.A., Cambridge, 1988-1991.

• Fisher, R.M., Cornwallis, C.K., & West, S.A (2013). Group formation, relatedness and the evolution of multicellularity. Current Biology 23, 1120-1125. Supp Info. Raw Data.  Oxford Science Blog.
• Burton-Chellew, M.N. & West, S.A. (2013) Pro-social preferences do not explain human cooperation in public-goods games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 110, 216-221.
• West, S.A. & Gardner, A. (2013) Adaptation and inclusive fitness. Current Biology 23, R577-R584.
  
• Cornwallis, C.K., West, S.A., Davies, K.E. & Grifin, A.S. (2010) Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies. Nature 466, 969-972. Supplementary Information. News & Views. Faculty of 1000. {Media}
• Rumbaugh, K.P., Diggle, S.P., Watters, C.M., Ross-Gillespie, A., Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2009). Quorum sensing and the social evolution of bacterial virulence. Current Biology 19, 341-345.
• West, S.A. (2009) Sex Allocation. Princeton University Press (Monographs in Population Biology Series).
• Wild, G., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2009) Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world. Nature 459, 983-986. {Faculty of 1000} {Media}
• Diggle, S.P., Griffin, A.S., Campbell, G.S. & West. S.A. (2007) Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations. Nature 450, 411-414. {Media} {Making the paper} {Editorial} {Faculty of 1000} {Letter to Nature}
• West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Evolutionary explanations for cooperation. Current Biology, 17, R661-R672.
  
• West, S.A., Griffin, A.S., Gardner, A. & Diggle, S.P. (2006) Social evolution theory for microbes. Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 597-607.
• West, S.A., Gardner, A., Shuker, D.M., Reynolds, T., Burton-Chellow, M., Sykes, E.M., Guinee, M.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2006) Cooperation and the scale of competition in humans. Current Biology 16, 1103-1106. {Current Biology Commentary}  {Media}
• Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. & Grafen, A. (2005) The illusion of invariant quantities in life-histories. Science 309, 1236-1239  {Science perspective} {Media}
  
• Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature, 430, 1024-1027.  {Nature News & Views}  {Science perspective} {Media}
• Shuker, D.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Information constraints and the precision of adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 101, 10363-10367. {Current Biology Commentary}  {Faculty of 100 Commentary} 
  
• Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2003) Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science, 302, 634-636. {Media}
  
• Kiers, E.T., Rousseau, R.A., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F. (2003) Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobia mutualism. Nature, 425, 78-81. {Media}
  
• West, S.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Constraints in the evolution of sex ratio adjustment. Science, 295, 1685-1688. {PDF of TREE commentary}
• West, S.A., Pen, I. Griffin, A.S. (2002) Cooperation and competition between relatives. Science, 296, 72-75.
• West, S.A., Murray, M.G, Machado, C., Griffin, A.S. & Herre, E.A. (2001) Testing Hamilton’s rule with competition between relatives. Nature, 409, 510-513. {PDF of TREE commentary} {Media}

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