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Professor Bryan Campbell
Clarke
FRS, born in 1932, a
British
geneticist. He is
professor emeritus of genetics
at the
University of Nottingham
Clarke is particularly noted for
his work on
apostatic selection and other
forms of frequency-dependent
selection, and work on
polymorphism in snails, much of it
done during the 1960s. Later, he
studied molecular evolution. He
made the case for natural
selection as an important factor
in the maintenance of molecular
variation, and in driving
evolutionary changes in molecules
through time. In doing so, he
questioned the over-riding
importance of random genetic drift
advocated by King, Jukes and
Kimura. With Dr. JJ Murray Jnr
(University of Virginia), he
carried out an extensive series of
studies on speciation in land
snails of the genus Partulainhabiting
the volcanic islands of the
Eastern Pacific. These studies
illuminated the genetic changes
that take place during the origin
of species.
Clarke was elected a
Fellow of the
Royal Society in
1982.
