Roderic D. M. Page
New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist
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Roderic Dugald Morton Page (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books.[4] As of 2015[update] he is professor at the University of Glasgow and was editor of the journal Systematic Biology until the end of 2007.[5] His main interests are in phylogenetics,[6] evolutionary biology and bioinformatics.[7][8]
1962 (age 63–64)
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| Born | Roderic Dugald Morton Page 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Citizenship | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland (PhD) |
| Known for | Molecular evolution : a phylogenetic approach[1] |
| Awards | Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society 1998 |
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| Thesis | Panbiogeography: a cladistic approach (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian McArdle |
| Doctoral students | Vincent Smith[3] |
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Education
Page was born in Auckland and earned a PhD in 1990 from the University of Auckland.[9]
Career and research
Page is known for his work on co-speciation and in particular the development of bioinformatic software such as TreeMap,[10] RadCon,[11][12] and TreeView.[2][13][14][15] Page is a co-author with Eddie Holmes of Molecular Evolution: A phylogenetic approach[1] and editor of Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution.[16]
Awards and honours
He received the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1998,[17] and the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge joint first prize in 2018.[18]
