Michael R. Rose

Michael Robertson Rose ( born 1955 ) is a British evolutionary biologist.

Career and work

Rose in 1979 his doctorate at the University of Sussex in biology. His scientific work on the thesis, supervised by Brian Charlesworth and John Maynard Smith. Then Rose worked for three years at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. From 1981 to 1985 he was Assistant Professor and from 1985 to 1988 Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In 1986 he moved to the University of California, Irvine, where he was an associate professor until 1990. Since 1990 he has been there a full professor of biology.

The focus of research Roses are aging. He became known through experiments with fruit flies, their life expectancy he doubled. By Rose the concept of antagonistic Pleitropie comes. He has written several books on evolutionary biology.

• M. R. Rose: Evolutionary biology of aging. Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-195-06133-0 limited preview on Google Book Search
• MR Rose: Darwin's specter: evolutionary biology in the modern world. Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-691-01217-2 limited preview on Google Book Search. (. . ger Darwin's world of researchers, finches and evolution Stuttgart: dva, 2002 Taschenbuchausg: Munich: .. Piper, 2003 ( Serie Piper, 3679 ) ISBN 3-492-23679-0. )
• M. R. Rose: Darwin's shadow. DVA, 2001, ISBN 3-421-05383-9
• T. Garland, T. Garland and MR Rose ( Editor): Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-26180-1 limited preview on Google Book Search