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thumb Robin Baker (born 13 March 1944) is a British novelist, popular science writer, lecturer and broadcaster. A best-selling author in the field of sexual biology〔New Scientist, 18 May 96, p. 52〕 his books have been translated into 27 different languages. These include the international bestseller Sperm Wars which was based on his own lab’s original research on human sexuality.〔Channel 4, 60 minute TV Documentary. Women – The inside story, first broadcast 1996〕 His work and ideas on the evolution of human behaviour have been featured in many radio and television programmes around the world. ==Biography== Born in Wiltshire, England in 1944, Robin Baker grew up in the small village of Manningford Bruce in the Vale of Pewsey.〔Where are they now? Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, 14 December 1978〕 Educated at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School, where thirty years earlier the author William Golding had also been educated, he gained his BSc degree (a First Class in Zoology) from the University of Bristol in 1965, where he also gained a doctorate in 1969 under H. E. Hinton, FRS (1912–1977). His Ph.D. thesis was on the evolution of the migratory habit in butterflies and applied for the first time the principles of the new and growing disciplines of behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology to the field of insect migration.〔''The Times Newspaper'', Science Report, 9 April 1968〕 This work was subsequently published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He moved to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1970 and from there to the University of Manchester in 1974 where he was first a lecturer, and in 1981 a Reader in Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences. In 1996 he left academic life to concentrate on his career in writing and broadcasting. He currently lives in the foothills of the Sierras in Southern Spain with his family. He has four sons and two daughters. Academic Work Although his early work was on evolutionary aspects of insect migration and territoriality, his interests broadened. With G.A. Parker and V.G.F. Smith in 1972, he proposed a leading theory for the evolution of anisogamy and two sexes〔Krebs, J.R. & Davies, N.B. (1993) ''An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology'', 3rd Ed., Blackwell, p. 176〕 and in 1979, with G.A. Parker he proposed the Unprofitable Prey Theory of the evolution of bird coloration.〔Krebs, J.R. & Davies, N.B. (1993) ''An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology'', 3rd Ed., Blackwell, p. 101〕 In 1978 in his book ''The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration''〔Book Review: Animals on the Move, New Scientist, 9 November 1978〕 he wrote for the first time on the theme that permeated his work for the rest of his academic life: the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the behaviour of humans. This led in the 1980s to controversial work on the role of magnetoreception in the navigation of humans,〔BBC 30 minute TV Documentary: Naturewatch, first broadcast October 1982〕 and in the 1990s (with Mark Bellis) to a study of sperm competition in humans〔 and rats, including proposal of the kamikaze sperm hypothesis. Baker and Bellis’ research into the evolutionary biology of infidelity, masturbation, sperm polymorphism, and sperm number in humans, as well as into the design and function of the human penis and cervix led to a number of scientific papers and an academic book: ''Human Sperm Competition: copulation, masturbation and infidelity''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robin Baker (biologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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