Research Interests

I develop theoretical models to understand the evolution of conflict and cooperation. My work covers conflict and cooperation at many different levels of biological organization: between members of the same population (social behavior), between different genetic elements within a genome, and between host and pathogen populations. More on my research can be found at my web site, http://stevefrank.org.

Degrees

B.S. University of Michigan 1979
M.Statistics University of Florida 1983
M.S. University of Florida 1983
Ph.D. University of Michigan 1987

Honors and Awards

Young Investigator Prize, American Society of Naturalists (1986)
Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution (1988)
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1995)

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Recent Papers

Frank, S. A. 1996. The design of natural and artificial adaptive systems. Pages 451-505 in Adaptation, M. R. Rose and G. V. Lauder, eds. Academic Press.

Frank, S. A. 1996. Models of parasite virulence. Quarterly Review of Biology 71:37-78.

Frank, S. A. 1997. Models of symbiosis. American Naturalist 150:S80--S99.

Frank, S. A. 1998. Foundations of Social Evolution. Princeton University Press.

Frank, S. A. 2000. Polymorphism of attack and defense. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:167-171.

Frank, S. A. and Barr, C. M. 2001. Spatial dynamics of cytoplasmic male sterility. Pages 219-243 in Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context. J. Silvertown and J. Antonovics, eds. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Frank, S. A. 2002. Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease. Princeton University Press.

Frank, S. A. and Nowak, M. A. Developmental predisposition to cancer. Nature 422:494.