Raghavendra gadagkar biography books

Indian ecologist (born )

Raghavendra Gadagkar is an honorary professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using Ropalidia marginata, a locally common wasp as a model.

He was, from to , the president of the Indian National Science Academy.

Gadagkar has published over scientific papers and articles in various international journals as well as in Indian journals like Current Science magazine, and the Journal of Biosciences (India).

His work on the evolution of eusociality using the theory of "assured fitness returns" which has been examined using empirical data ^[2] is considered as a significant landmark and advance over the idea of inclusive fitness introduced by W.

D. Hamilton in He helped established a research group that has examined theoretical predictions, proximate and ultimate factors in the evolution of sociality in wasp