Post:	Reader in Evolution
Location:	JMS Building 5B18
Email:	J.R.Peck@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8843
UK:	(01273) 678843
International:	+44 1273 678843

Biography

BA (Boston) MA (California) MA PhD (Stanford)

 

Research

Theoretical work on the evolution of sex, the origin of life, and host-parasite relations.

For more information see my Home Page and the Centre for the Study of Evolution.

Teaching

Course Organiser
Topics in Evolutionary Theory

Evolution
Topics in Evolutionary Theory

Publications

G.P. Wagner, J.P. Kenny-Hunt, M. Pavlicev, J.R. Peck, and D. Waxman 2008.  Pleiotropic Scaling of Gene Effects and the "Cost of Complexity".  Nature  452: 470-472.

Joel R. Peck 2006. Altruism, inbreeding and sex when the genotype-phenotype map is additive.  Journal of Theoretical Biology   239: 130-140.

 Joel R. Peck 2004. Sex causes altruism.  Altruism causes sex.  Maybe. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences   271: 993-1000

 Joel R. Peck and John J. Welch 2004. Adaptation and species range. Evolution  58: 211-221

 David Waxman and Joel R. Peck 2003.  The Anomalous Effects of Biased Mutation. Genetics 164: 1615 - 1626

Waxman, D., Peck, J.R. (2000). Mutation and sex in a competitive world. Nature 406 (6794): 399 - 404.

Yearsley, J.M., Waxman, D., Peck, J.R. (1998). Explaining the geographic distributions of sexual and asexual populations. Nature 391 (6670): 889 - 892.

Waxman, D., Peck, J.R. (1998). Pleiotropy and the preservation of perfection. Science 279 (5354): 1210 - 1213.

Peck, J. R. & Waxman, D. (1997) What determines fitness when dispersal is limited? Evolution 51(4), 1036-1043.

Peck, J.R. & Eyre-Walker, A. (1997) The Muddle about mutations. Nature 387, 135-136.

Peck, J. R. (1996) Limited dispersal, deleterious mutations and the evolution of sex. Genetics, 142: 1053-1060.