Professor Mark Pagel - The Evolution of Human Language: Darwin Would Approve

Mark Pagel is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Reading University and an External Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute. He is best known for his work on building statistical models to identify the evolutionary processes underlying animal and human behaviour, from genomics to the emergence of complex systems - to language and culture.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution and co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology which is regarded as a classic in the field. He is widely published in the scientific journals Nature and Science, and has lectured widely including presentations at the World Economics Forum.

His book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind published in 2012 was named as one of the best science books of the year by the Guardian newspaper.

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