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Nationality
  
American

Spouse
  
Elizabeth Cashdan

Name
  
Alan Rogers

Alma mater
  
University of New Mexico

Doctoral advisor
  
Henry Harpending

Institutions
  
University of Utah

Children
  
2

Role
  
Author

Institution
  
University of Utah

Born
  
August 13, 1950 (age 73) (
1950-08-13
)

Thesis
  
Variation of Neutral Characters in Subdivided Populations (1982)

Books
  
The Evidence for Evolution

Fields
  
Population genetics, Evolutionary ecology

Alan R. Rogers (born August 13, 1950) is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah. His research is in the fields of population genetics and evolutionary ecology. He is the author of The Evidence for Evolution.

Contents

Early life and education

Rogers earned a B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. at University of New Mexico, where he studied under Henry Harpending.

Career

Rogers is best known for his work in population genetics, much of which uses genetic data to study the history of populations. He has also contributed to the theory of cultural evolution, to life history theory, and to economic theory on the interest rate.

Books

  • Rogers, A.R. 2011. The Evidence for Evolution. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  • Rogers, A.R. 2012. Models in Evolutionary Ecology (free ebook)

    • Selected papers

  • Rogers, A.R. 1988. Does biology constrain culture? American Anthropologist, 90(4): 819-831.
  • Rogers, A.R. 1991. Conserving resources for children. Human Nature, 2:73-82.
  • Rogers, A.R. 1992. Population growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 9:552-569.
  • Rogers, A.R. 1993. Why menopause? Evolutionary ecology, 7(4):406-420.
  • Rogers, A.R. 1994. The evolution of time preference by natural selection. American Economic Review, 84(3):460-481.
  • Rogers, A.R. 1995. Genetic evidence for a Pleistocene population explosion. Evolution, 49(4):608-615.
  • Rogers, A.R., Jorde, L.B. 1996. Ascertainment bias in estimates of average heterozygosity. American Journal of Human Genetics, 58:1033-1041.
  • Harpending, H.C., Rogers, A.R. 2000. Genetic perspectives on human origins and differentiation. 1, 361-385.
  • Rogers, A.R. 2000. Analysis of bone counts by maximum likelihood. Journal of Archaeological Science, 27(2):111-125.

    • References

    Alan R. Rogers Wikipedia
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