Crespi, Bernard Joseph - Animal biology - Simon Fraser University
Bernard Crespi studies the evolution of social cooperation among all organisms from microbes to humans. His current work focuses on the evolutionary genomics of social-brain disorders in humans, such as autism.

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Crespi, Bernard Joseph - Animal biology - Simon Fraser University
Bernie Crespi is one of the foremost evolutionary biologists in the world, renowned for both experimental and theoretical contributions. He discovered complex societies in an entirely new order of animals. His studies on them demonstrated the roles of both genetic relatedness and environment in the evolution of cooperative behavior. He developed and tested novel theory for the evolution of human mental illnesses. This work yielded the first robust predictive evolutionary framework to analyze the causes of autism, schizophrenia, and related conditions involving dysregulated development of the human social brain. His bold approach has conceptually unified distinct fields of biology.