Graeme RuxtonFRSE is a zoologist known for his research intobehavioural ecology andevolutionary ecology.
Ruxton received his PhD in Statistics and Modelling Science in 1992 from theUniversity of Strathclyde. His studies focus on the evolutionary pressures on aggregation by animals, andpredator-prey aspects of sensory ecology. He researched visual communication in animals at the University of Glasgow, where he was professor oftheoretical ecology.[1] In 2013 he became professor at theUniversity of St Andrews,Scotland.[2][3]
Ruxton has published numerous papers onantipredator adaptations, along with contributions to textbooks. His bookLiving in Groups has been cited over 2300 times. His textbookAvoiding Attack. The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry has been cited over 1150 times. His paper "Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups" has been cited over 1300 times, while his paper on the use ofstatistics in behavioural ecology, "The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test", has been cited over 850 times.[4]
In 2012 Ruxton was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh.[5]
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