Bernard Crespi, Ph.D.

Bernie took his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, and did his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with Williams D. Hamilton and Richard D. Alexander. His thesis work was on the behavioral ecology of insects. He conducted post-doctoral studies at the University of New South Wales (with Ross Crozier), at Cornell (with Rick Harrison) and at Oxford (with W. D. Hamilton), and started a tenure track position at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1992, where he is now a Professor. Bernie's work has focused on various topics, including insect behavior and sex ratios, social evolution and eusociality, human evolution, genomic conflicts, speciation, placentation, cancer, autism and schizophrenia, and female reproductive disorders. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Genetics and Psychology, and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada.