An evolutionary biologist is a type of scientist who wants to understand the meaning of life (or, more precisely, how and why organisms get to be the way they are).
My research group at the University of New South Wales -- the Evolutionary Biology Lab -- investigates the nature of heredity (including genetics, epigenetics and other mechanisms that transmit variation across generations), factors that influence development, the sources of diversity within and among species, coevolution of the sexes, and how and why organisms age.
I am currently serving as Editor of The American Naturalist.
Dobzhansky Prize (2006) from the Society for the Study of Evolution