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Kevin Lala

April 10, 2024

Kevin Neville Lala (formerly Kevin Neville Laland; born 5 October 1962)[1][2] is an English evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Educated at the University of Southampton and University College London,[3] he was a Human Frontier Science Program fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of St Andrews in 2002. He is one of the co-founders of niche construction theory[4] and a prominent advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis.[5] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Society of Biology. He has also received a European Research Council Advanced Grant,[6] a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award,[7] and a John Templeton Foundation grant.[8] He was the president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association from 2007 to 2010[9] and a former president of the Cultural Evolution Society.[10] Lala is currently an external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.[11]

Kevin Lala
Born
Kevin Neville Lala

(1962-10-05) 5 October 1962 (age 61)
NationalityEnglish
Other namesKevin Laland
EducationUniversity College London (Ph.D., 1990)
Alma materUniversity of Southampton
Known forNiche construction theory
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioral biology
Evolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Thesis Social transmission in Norway rats and its implications for evolutionary theory  (1990)
Doctoral advisorHenry Plotkin

Cognition and learning edit

The Lala Lab is primarily focused on animal social learning, innovation, and intelligence,[12] as well as human evolution, particularly the evolution of cognition and culture.[13] Their work lies at the interdisciplinary interface of evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ecology, and psychology.[14]

Niche construction theory edit

Following John Odling-Smee's attempt in 1988 to formalize the process of niche construction as an evolutionary process,[15] Odling-Smee, Lala, and Marcus W. Feldman developed a theoretical framework – Niche Construction Theory – that models niche construction as an evolutionary process reciprocally interacting with the process of natural selection.[4][16] This theory has been applied widely across multiple fields, including ecology[17][18] evolutionary developmental biology,[19] and human and cultural evolution.[20][21][22]

Extended evolutionary synthesis edit

In the mid-2010s, Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, and colleagues pushed for an extended evolutionary synthesis in a series of high-impact articles.[23][24] From 2015 to 2018, Uller and Lala led a large international John Templeton Foundation grant to test key hypotheses and assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis.[8][25]

Anti-racism work edit

Kevin Lala previously served on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion division of the School of Biology as deputy director.[26] He is currently serving as an anti-racism advocate,[27] publishing articles[28][29] on racism in academia.

Lala changed his name from Laland, stating on his lab website "Lala was my original family name, which my parents anglicized when I was 4, in an attempt to reduce the racism that their children experienced. I may have benefited from my surname being anglicized, but it did not sit right with me that I should still bear that name more than 50 years later. I wish to celebrate my ancestry not hide it. I am proud of my Parsi Indian heritage. I am not going to be intimidated by racists."[30]

Publications edit

Journal articles edit

  • Google scholar

Books edit

  • Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections, The MIT Press, 2019, Tobias Uller, Kevin N Laland ISBN 9780262039925
  • Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind, Princeton University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780691151182
  • Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models, Princeton University Press, 2013, William Hoppitt and Kevin N. Laland ISBN 9780691150703
  • Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour, Oxford University Press, 2011, Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown, 2nd edition ISBN 9780199586967
  • Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution, Princeton University Press, 2003, John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Laland, Marcus W. Feldman ISBN 9780691044378
  • Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour, Oxford University Press, 2002, Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown, 1st edition ISBN 9780198508847

References edit

  1. ^ "Laland, Kevin N." Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Current lab members – The Lala Lab". lalandlab.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ^ Odling-Smee, J.; Laland, K. N.; Feldman, M. W. (February 2000). "Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23 (1): 131–146, discussion 146–175. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00002417. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 11303338. S2CID 13893525.
  4. ^ a b Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, J.; Feldman, M. W. (2003). Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton University Press. p. 488. ISBN 9780691044378.
  5. ^ Zimmer, Carl (22 November 2016). "Scientists Seek to Update Evolution". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. ^ "ERC Funded Projects". European Research Council. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship". University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test". John Templeton Foundation. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  9. ^ . cambridge.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  10. ^ "About Us". culturalevolutionsociety.org. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  11. ^ "People | External Faculty | Discover The KLI". kli.ac.at. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  12. ^ Toyokawa, Wataru; Whalen, Andrew; Laland, Kevin N. (21 January 2019). "Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds". Nature Human Behaviour. 3 (2): 183–193. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0518-x. hdl:10023/18143. ISSN 2397-3374. PMID 30944445. S2CID 256703977.
  13. ^ Laland, Kevin; Seed, Amanda (4 January 2021). "Understanding Human Cognitive Uniqueness". Annual Review of Psychology. 72 (1): 689–716. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-062220-051256. ISSN 0066-4308. PMID 33400565. S2CID 230784383.
  14. ^ "The Lala Lab – Research in the School of Biology". lalandlab.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  15. ^ Odling-Smee FJ (1988) Niche-constructing phenotypes. In: Plotkin HC (ed) The Role of Behavior in Evolution. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 73–132
  16. ^ Odling-Smee, F. John; Laland, Kevin N.; Feldman, Marcus W. (1996). "Niche Construction". The American Naturalist. 147 (4): 641–648. doi:10.1086/285870. ISSN 0003-0147. JSTOR 2463239. S2CID 222326061.
  17. ^ Laland, K. N.; Odling-Smee, F. J.; Feldman, M. W. (31 August 1999). "Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (18): 10242–10247. Bibcode:1999PNAS...9610242L. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.18.10242. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 17873. PMID 10468593.
  18. ^ Matthews, Blake; De Meester, Luc; Jones, Clive G.; Ibelings, Bas W.; Bouma, Tjeerd J.; Nuutinen, Visa; de Koppel, Johan van; Odling-Smee, John (May 2014). "Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution, and ecosystem science". Ecological Monographs. 84 (2): 245–263. Bibcode:2014EcoM...84..245M. doi:10.1890/13-0953.1. ISSN 0012-9615.
  19. ^ Laland, Kevin N.; Odling-Smee, John; Gilbert, Scott F. (15 November 2008). "EvoDevo and niche construction: building bridges". Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 310B (7): 549–566. Bibcode:2008JEZB..310..549L. doi:10.1002/jez.b.21232. PMID 18756522.
  20. ^ Kendal, Jeremy; Tehrani, Jamshid J.; Odling-Smee, John (27 March 2011). "Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 366 (1566): 785–792. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0306. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 3048995. PMID 21320894.
  21. ^ Laland, Kevin N.; Odling-Smee, John; Myles, Sean (February 2010). "How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together". Nature Reviews Genetics. 11 (2): 137–148. doi:10.1038/nrg2734. ISSN 1471-0056. PMID 20084086. S2CID 10287878.
  22. ^ Laland, Kevin N.; Odling-Smee, John; Feldman, Marcus W. (February 2000). "Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23 (1): 131–146. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00002417. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 11303338. S2CID 13893525.
  23. ^ Laland, Kevin; Uller, Tobias; Feldman, Marc; Sterelny, Kim; Müller, Gerd B.; Moczek, Armin; Jablonka, Eva; Odling-Smee, John; Wray, Gregory A.; Hoekstra, Hopi E.; Futuyma, Douglas J.; Lenski, Richard E.; Mackay, Trudy F. C.; Schluter, Dolph; Strassmann, Joan E. (October 2014). "Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?". Nature. 514 (7521): 161–164. Bibcode:2014Natur.514..161L. doi:10.1038/514161a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 25297418. S2CID 4467421.
  24. ^ Laland, Kevin N.; Uller, Tobias; Feldman, Marcus W.; Sterelny, Kim; Müller, Gerd B.; Moczek, Armin; Jablonka, Eva; Odling-Smee, John (22 August 2015). "The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1813): 20151019. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1019. PMC 4632619. PMID 26246559.
  25. ^ "Extended Evolutionary Synthesis – An integrative research program". Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  26. ^ "Committee – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion". biology.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  27. ^ "Anti-racism – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion". biology.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  28. ^ Laland, Kevin N. (25 August 2020). "Racism in academia, and why the 'little things' matter". Nature. 584 (7822): 653–654. Bibcode:2020Natur.584..653L. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02471-6. PMID 32843730. S2CID 221285014.
  29. ^ "ReSourcE Spring 2021". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  30. ^ "Current lab members – the Laland Lab". Retrieved 23 February 2024.

External links edit

  • Faculty page
  • The Lala Lab
  • Niche construction resource website
  • Extended evolutionary synthesis project website

April 10, 2024
kevin, lala, kevin, neville, lala, formerly, kevin, neville, laland, born, october, 1962, english, evolutionary, biologist, professor, behavioural, evolutionary, biology, university, andrews, scotland, educated, university, southampton, university, college, lo. Kevin Neville Lala formerly Kevin Neville Laland born 5 October 1962 1 2 is an English evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland Educated at the University of Southampton and University College London 3 he was a Human Frontier Science Program fellow at the University of California Berkeley before joining the University of St Andrews in 2002 He is one of the co founders of niche construction theory 4 and a prominent advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis 5 He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Society of Biology He has also received a European Research Council Advanced Grant 6 a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 7 and a John Templeton Foundation grant 8 He was the president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association from 2007 to 2010 9 and a former president of the Cultural Evolution Society 10 Lala is currently an external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 11 Kevin LalaBornKevin Neville Lala 1962 10 05 5 October 1962 age 61 NationalityEnglishOther namesKevin LalandEducationUniversity College London Ph D 1990 Alma materUniversity of SouthamptonKnown forNiche construction theoryAwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit AwardScientific careerFieldsBehavioral biologyEvolutionary biologyInstitutionsUniversity of St AndrewsThesisSocial transmission in Norway rats and its implications for evolutionary theory 1990 Doctoral advisorHenry Plotkin Contents 1 Cognition and learning 2 Niche construction theory 3 Extended evolutionary synthesis 4 Anti racism work 5 Publications 5 1 Journal articles 5 2 Books 6 References 7 External linksCognition and learning editThe Lala Lab is primarily focused on animal social learning innovation and intelligence 12 as well as human evolution particularly the evolution of cognition and culture 13 Their work lies at the interdisciplinary interface of evolutionary biology animal behavior ecology and psychology 14 Niche construction theory editFollowing John Odling Smee s attempt in 1988 to formalize the process of niche construction as an evolutionary process 15 Odling Smee Lala and Marcus W Feldman developed a theoretical framework Niche Construction Theory that models niche construction as an evolutionary process reciprocally interacting with the process of natural selection 4 16 This theory has been applied widely across multiple fields including ecology 17 18 evolutionary developmental biology 19 and human and cultural evolution 20 21 22 Extended evolutionary synthesis editIn the mid 2010s Kevin Lala Tobias Uller and colleagues pushed for an extended evolutionary synthesis in a series of high impact articles 23 24 From 2015 to 2018 Uller and Lala led a large international John Templeton Foundation grant to test key hypotheses and assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis 8 25 Anti racism work editKevin Lala previously served on the Equality Diversity and Inclusion division of the School of Biology as deputy director 26 He is currently serving as an anti racism advocate 27 publishing articles 28 29 on racism in academia Lala changed his name from Laland stating on his lab website Lala was my original family name which my parents anglicized when I was 4 in an attempt to reduce the racism that their children experienced I may have benefited from my surname being anglicized but it did not sit right with me that I should still bear that name more than 50 years later I wish to celebrate my ancestry not hide it I am proud of my Parsi Indian heritage I am not going to be intimidated by racists 30 Publications editJournal articles edit Google scholarBooks edit Evolutionary Causation Biological and Philosophical Reflections The MIT Press 2019 Tobias Uller Kevin N Laland ISBN 9780262039925 Darwin s Unfinished Symphony How Culture Made the Human Mind Princeton University Press 2017 ISBN 9780691151182 Social Learning An Introduction to Mechanisms Methods and Models Princeton University Press 2013 William Hoppitt and Kevin N Laland ISBN 9780691150703 Sense and nonsense Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour Oxford University Press 2011 Kevin N Laland and Gillian R Brown 2nd edition ISBN 9780199586967 Niche Construction The Neglected Process in Evolution Princeton University Press 2003 John Odling Smee Kevin N Laland Marcus W Feldman ISBN 9780691044378 Sense and nonsense Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour Oxford University Press 2002 Kevin N Laland and Gillian R Brown 1st edition ISBN 9780198508847References edit Laland Kevin N Library of Congress Name Authority File Retrieved 10 October 2018 Current lab members The Lala Lab lalandlab wp st andrews ac uk Retrieved 1 February 2023 Odling Smee J Laland K N Feldman M W February 2000 Niche construction biological evolution and cultural change Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 1 131 146 discussion 146 175 doi 10 1017 s0140525x00002417 ISSN 0140 525X PMID 11303338 S2CID 13893525 a b Laland K N Odling Smee J Feldman M W 2003 Niche Construction The Neglected Process in Evolution Princeton University Press p 488 ISBN 9780691044378 Zimmer Carl 22 November 2016 Scientists Seek to Update Evolution Quanta Magazine Retrieved 10 October 2018 ERC Funded Projects European Research Council Retrieved 24 June 2020 Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship University of St Andrews Retrieved 24 June 2020 a b Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test John Templeton Foundation Retrieved 24 June 2020 archived www cambridge org core membership ehbea about us cambridge org Archived from the original on 1 November 2020 Retrieved 21 October 2022 About Us culturalevolutionsociety org Retrieved 1 February 2023 People External Faculty Discover The KLI kli ac at Retrieved 10 March 2023 Toyokawa Wataru Whalen Andrew Laland Kevin N 21 January 2019 Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds Nature Human Behaviour 3 2 183 193 doi 10 1038 s41562 018 0518 x hdl 10023 18143 ISSN 2397 3374 PMID 30944445 S2CID 256703977 Laland Kevin Seed Amanda 4 January 2021 Understanding Human Cognitive Uniqueness Annual Review of Psychology 72 1 689 716 doi 10 1146 annurev psych 062220 051256 ISSN 0066 4308 PMID 33400565 S2CID 230784383 The Lala Lab Research in the School of Biology lalandlab wp st andrews ac uk Retrieved 1 February 2023 Odling Smee FJ 1988 Niche constructing phenotypes In Plotkin HC ed The Role of Behavior in Evolution The MIT Press Cambridge MA pp 73 132 Odling Smee F John Laland Kevin N Feldman Marcus W 1996 Niche Construction The American Naturalist 147 4 641 648 doi 10 1086 285870 ISSN 0003 0147 JSTOR 2463239 S2CID 222326061 Laland K N Odling Smee F J Feldman M W 31 August 1999 Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 18 10242 10247 Bibcode 1999PNAS 9610242L doi 10 1073 pnas 96 18 10242 ISSN 0027 8424 PMC 17873 PMID 10468593 Matthews Blake De Meester Luc Jones Clive G Ibelings Bas W Bouma Tjeerd J Nuutinen Visa de Koppel Johan van Odling Smee John May 2014 Under niche construction an operational bridge between ecology evolution and ecosystem science Ecological Monographs 84 2 245 263 Bibcode 2014EcoM 84 245M doi 10 1890 13 0953 1 ISSN 0012 9615 Laland Kevin N Odling Smee John Gilbert Scott F 15 November 2008 EvoDevo and niche construction building bridges Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution 310B 7 549 566 Bibcode 2008JEZB 310 549L doi 10 1002 jez b 21232 PMID 18756522 Kendal Jeremy Tehrani Jamshid J Odling Smee John 27 March 2011 Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 366 1566 785 792 doi 10 1098 rstb 2010 0306 ISSN 0962 8436 PMC 3048995 PMID 21320894 Laland Kevin N Odling Smee John Myles Sean February 2010 How culture shaped the human genome bringing genetics and the human sciences together Nature Reviews Genetics 11 2 137 148 doi 10 1038 nrg2734 ISSN 1471 0056 PMID 20084086 S2CID 10287878 Laland Kevin N Odling Smee John Feldman Marcus W February 2000 Niche construction biological evolution and cultural change Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 1 131 146 doi 10 1017 s0140525x00002417 ISSN 0140 525X PMID 11303338 S2CID 13893525 Laland Kevin Uller Tobias Feldman Marc Sterelny Kim Muller Gerd B Moczek Armin Jablonka Eva Odling Smee John Wray Gregory A Hoekstra Hopi E Futuyma Douglas J Lenski Richard E Mackay Trudy F C Schluter Dolph Strassmann Joan E October 2014 Does evolutionary theory need a rethink Nature 514 7521 161 164 Bibcode 2014Natur 514 161L doi 10 1038 514161a ISSN 1476 4687 PMID 25297418 S2CID 4467421 Laland Kevin N Uller Tobias Feldman Marcus W Sterelny Kim Muller Gerd B Moczek Armin Jablonka Eva Odling Smee John 22 August 2015 The extended evolutionary synthesis its structure assumptions and predictions Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 282 1813 20151019 doi 10 1098 rspb 2015 1019 PMC 4632619 PMID 26246559 Extended Evolutionary Synthesis An integrative research program Retrieved 27 January 2023 Committee Equality Diversity and Inclusion biology st andrews ac uk Retrieved 27 January 2023 Anti racism Equality Diversity and Inclusion biology st andrews ac uk Retrieved 27 January 2023 Laland Kevin N 25 August 2020 Racism in academia and why the little things matter Nature 584 7822 653 654 Bibcode 2020Natur 584 653L doi 10 1038 d41586 020 02471 6 PMID 32843730 S2CID 221285014 ReSourcE Spring 2021 Royal Society of Edinburgh Retrieved 27 January 2023 Current lab members the Laland Lab Retrieved 23 February 2024 External links editFaculty page The Lala Lab Niche construction resource website Extended evolutionary synthesis project website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kevin Lala amp oldid 1209815906, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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