Roderic D. M. Page


Roderic Dugald Morton Page is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books. he is professor at the University of Glasgow and was editor of the journal Systematic Biology until the end of 2007. His main interests are in phylogenetics, evolutionary biology and bioinformatics.

Education

Page was born in Auckland earned a PhD in 1990 from the University of Auckland.

Career and research

Page is known for his work on co-speciation and in particular the development of bioinformatic software such as TreeMap, RadCon, and TreeView. Page is a co-author with Eddie Holmes of Molecular Evolution: A phylogenetic approach and editor of Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution.

Awards and honours

He received the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1998.