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At heart I'm a mathematician. Of all intellectual pursuits, I have found mathematics to be the truest and the most faithful. It has beauty and chaos, but there's always a hard diamond at its core.

I spend my research time either as a biologist (modeling behaviour, inclusive fitness, evolutionary stability) or as an educator (developing curriculum, both at the high school and university level). All this involves lots of beautiful (and elementary) math, so I'm pretty happy with my work. I am cross appointed to both the Biology Department and the Faculty of Education.

Current news
  • On May 28th, I delivered the "Last Lecture" at Queen's MiniU this year. I called it God is also a mathematician and I have finally written it up.
  • My long-time teacher, mentor and colleague, John Coleman, has died at age 92. I was privileged to deliver the eulogy at his Thanksgiving service at St. George's Cathedral.

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