Egbert Giles Leigh

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(36), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(25), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(24), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(13), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(12)

Publications143 total

Assessing Forest Diversity On Small Plots: Calibration Using Species-Individual Curves From 50-Ha Plots
2026· 51 cited
Fossil soils: trace fossils of ecosystems on land and windows on the context of evolution
Evolution Education and Outreach·2022Open Access
How predictable is evolution in a chancy world where evolution’s raw material is random mutation?
Evolution Education and Outreach·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Cooperation, Evolution of
Elsevier eBooks·2022
Evaluating Darwin’s Book on the Descent of Man
Evolution Education and Outreach·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
How Ecosystems are Built: Competition and Cooperation in Evolution
2021Open Access
Neglected Problems in Ecology:
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
How should scientists spread interest in, understanding of, and desire to practice, science more widely among the public?
Evolution Education and Outreach·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Levels of Selection, Potential Conflicts, and Their Resolution:
Princeton University Press eBooks·2019· 1 cited
Barro Colorado
2019· 1 cited
Can the morality of a group whose members are interdependent be extended to all humanity and beyond?
Evolution Education and Outreach·2019· 1 citedOpen Access
How similar are human emotions to those of other vertebrates, and how do emotions help organize thought, action and social life?
Evolution Education and Outreach·2019Open Access
FOUR. Life’s Common Ancestry, and Its Origin
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
SEVEN. Heredity, Natural Selection, and Evolution
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
FIVE. Diversification
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
THREE. Adaptation, Individual and Social
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
EIGHT. Organizing Genes for Adaptive Evolution
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
TWO. How We Approach the Problem
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
TEN. The Last Transition
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
ELEVEN. What Have We Learned, and What Is Still Unknown?
Yale University Press eBooks·2019
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Frequent Co-authors

Geerat J. Vermeij(4), Steven Hecht Orzack(4), Priya Davidar(4), S. Joseph Wright‬(4), Robin B. Foster(3), A. Stanley Rand(3), Donald M. Windsor(3), Edward Allen Herre(3), Jean‐Philippe Puyravaud(3), Richard Condit(2), John Terborgh(2), Elizabeth Losos(2), Stephen P. Hubbell(2), Aaron O’Dea(2), Christopher W. Dick(2), Hans ter Steege(2), Nigel C. A. Pitman(1), Jérôme Chave(1), Percy Núñez(1), Salomón Aguilar(1)