James Mallet (born 15 March 1955 in
London) is an evolutionary zoologist specialising in
entomology
Entomology () is the science, scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such ...
.
He was educated at
Winchester College.
He became professor of
biological diversity at the Department of Biology,
University College London. He was co-director of the Centre for Ecology and Evolution, a centre of excellence in research and teaching formed by University College London, the
Institute of Zoology (Zoological Society of London),
Natural History Museum,
Imperial College
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
,
Queen Mary,
Royal Holloway and
Kew Gardens. In 2013 he was distinguished lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at
Harvard University. His research has included work on the
species concept central to
evolutionary biology, along with
hybridization
Hybridization (or hybridisation) may refer to:
*Hybridization (biology), the process of combining different varieties of organisms to create a hybrid
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*Nu ...
and the process of
speciation
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for cladogenesis, the splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within ...
.
He was awarded the
Darwin-Wallace Medal by the
Linnean Society of London in 2008.
His wife,
Hopi Hoekstra, an
evolutionary biologist, became
dean of
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in August 2023.
References
External links
* (UCL)
* (Harvard)
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Academics of University College London
Living people
1955 births
People educated at Winchester College
English entomologists