Mark Ridley (other)
Mark Ridley may refer to: * Mark Ridley (physician) (1560–1624), English physician and mathematician * Mark Ridley (zoologist) (born 1956), English zoologist See also * Mark Ridley-Thomas Mark Ridley-Thomas is an American politician. He previously served three terms on the Los Angeles City Council from the 8th district from 1991 to 2002, and again for the 10th district from 2020 until his expulsion from the council in 2022. Ridle ...

Mark Ridley (physician)
Dr Mark Ridley (1560 – c. 1624) was an English physician and lexicographer, born in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, to Lancelot Ridley. He became physician to the English merchants in Russia, and then personal physician to the Tsar of Russia.Lesley B. Cormack, ''Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620'' (1997), p. 123. Ridley's Russian dictionary While living in Russia between 1594 and 1599, he compiled two manuscript dictionaries of Russian: a Russian-English dictionary of 7,203 entries entitled and an English-Russian dictionary of 8,113 entries entitled . The former includes a short grammar of Russian on the first eight folios. Both dictionaries are now held at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford (MSS Laud misc. 47a and 47b). After his return from Russia he also wrote two books on magnetism. The dictionary's prime significance is in recording the spoken Russian language of that era: the written language differed considerably in it ...
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Mark Ridley (zoologist)
Mark Ridley (born 1956) is a British zoologist and writer on evolution. He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s (his doctoral advisor being Richard Dawkins), and later worked at Emory University. he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Ridley has worked on the evolution of reproductive behaviour and written a number of popular accounts of evolutionary biology, including articles for the ''New York Times'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''Nature'', ''New Scientist'' and ''The Times Literary Supplement''. He is sometimes confused with Matt Ridley, another writer on evolution who is also from the UK. Published works * Ridley, Mark 1993. ''Evolution'' Blackwell; 2nd ed 1996 Blackwell ; 3rd ed 2003 Wiley . A comprehensive textbook: case studies, commentary, dedicated website and CD. * ''Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life'' 2001 ** Released in the US with the title: ''The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Expl ...
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