Professor
Michael Joseph Ryan
University of Texas at Austin
Zoologist; Behavioral biologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Evolution and Ecology
Elected
2001
A world leader in research on animal communication. His imaginative experiments and computer models of sexual communication have stimulated a new branch of theorizing about how animal signals evolve, postulating sensory biases inherited from the past as a driving force in sexual selection.
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