Portrait of Brian Charlesworth
Date
2017
Sitter
Brian Charlesworth (1945, British) , Evolutionary biologist
Creator
Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
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Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Brian Charlesworth taken outside the Ashworth Laboratories at the University of Edinburgh, September 2017.
Brian Charlesworth is a British evolutionary biologist he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991. He was awarded the Darwin medal in 2000 in recognition of his distinguished work on selection in age-structured populations, extending the theory to the evolution of ageing, and testing the theories of mutation accumulation and pleiotropy, developing models for the evolution of genetic systems.
Brian Charlesworth is a British evolutionary biologist he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991. He was awarded the Darwin medal in 2000 in recognition of his distinguished work on selection in age-structured populations, extending the theory to the evolution of ageing, and testing the theories of mutation accumulation and pleiotropy, developing models for the evolution of genetic systems.
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