People at UWO Applied Mathematics

Geoff Wild
Assistant Professor

Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Middlesex College, Room 265 London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 88784 fax: (519) 661-3523 email: gwild@uwo.ca web: www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~gwild Ph.D. (Mathematics) 2004, Queen's University M.Sc. (Biology) 2000, Trent University B.Sc. (Biology) 1998, Trent University

Research Interests

• Evolutionary theory
• Population genetics
• Population biology

Representative Publications

• Toward evolutionary graphs with two sexes: a kin selection analysis of a sex allocation problem. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21 (2008) pp. 1428-1437


• The evolution of cooperation on a finite homogeneous graph (with P. D. Taylor and T. Day), Nature 447 (2007) pp. 469-472.


• The different limits of weak selection and the evolutionary dynamics of finite populations (with A. Traulsen), Journal of Theoretical Biology 247 (2007) pp. 382–390.


• Sex ratios when helpers stay at the nest, Evolution 60 (2006) pp. 2012-2022.