Biography:Barry Sinervo

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Short description: Behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist (1961–2021)

Barry R. Sinervo (1961–2021) was a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist. He was a full professor at University of California Santa Cruz where his research interests included game theory,[1] climate change,[2][3][4] herpetology, and animal behavior.[5] One of his major discoveries was of a rock-paper-scissors game in side-blotched lizard mating behaviour.[6][7][8] He also discovered evidence of the Baldwin effect in the side-blotched lizard.[9] Sinervo was born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, and educated at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and the University of Washington, Seattle. He died from cancer at age 60 on March 15, 2021.[10]

Honors

A species of lizard was named after Sinervo, Phymaturus sinervoi Scolaro et al., 2012.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Friedman, Daniel; Sinervo, Barry (2016) (in en). Evolutionary Games in Natural, Social, and Virtual Worlds. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-998115-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=vvhGCwAAQBAJ&q=barry+sinervo. 
  2. ↑ Sinervo, Barry; Méndez-de-la-Cruz, Fausto; Miles, Donald B.; Heulin, Benoit; Bastiaans, Elizabeth; Cruz, Maricela Villagrán-Santa; Lara-Resendiz, Rafael; Martínez-Méndez, Norberto et al. (2010-05-14). "Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches" (in en). Science 328 (5980): 894–899. doi:10.1126/science.1184695. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 20466932. Bibcode: 2010Sci...328..894S. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1184695. 
  3. ↑ Hepler, Lauren (2019-07-03). "How Santa Cruz's Dr. Doom Beat Extinction Anxiety" (in en-US). https://goodtimes.sc/cover-stories/barry-sinervo-extinction/. 
  4. ↑ Harvey, Chelsea. "Warming Threatens Reptiles More Than Birds and Mammals" (in en). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warming-threatens-reptiles-more-than-birds-and-mammals/. 
  5. ↑ "Department Directory". 2020-12-13. https://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/about/dept-directory.php?uid=sinervo. 
  6. ↑ Arnold, Carrie. "Biodiversity May Thrive Through Games of Rock-Paper-Scissors" (in en). https://www.quantamagazine.org/biodiversity-may-thrive-through-games-of-rock-paper-scissors-20200305/. 
  7. ↑ Sinervo, B.; Lively, C. M. (1996-03-21). "The rock–paper–scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies" (in en). Nature 380 (6571): 240–243. doi:10.1038/380240a0. ISSN 1476-4687. Bibcode: 1996Natur.380..240S. https://www.nature.com/articles/380240a0. 
  8. ↑ Ryerson, James (2007-12-09). "Rock-Paper-Scissors Is Universal" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09rockpaper.html. 
  9. ↑ Knapton, Sarah (2018-09-06). "How evolution can be super speedy when life depends on it" (in en-GB). The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/09/06/evolution-can-super-speedy-life-depends/. 
  10. ↑ Stephens, Tim (March 22, 2021). "Influential evolutionary biologist Barry Sinervo dies at age 60" (in en). https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/sinervo-in-memoriam.html. 
  11. ↑ Scolaro, José A., Fausto R. Méndez-De La Cruz & Nora R. Ibargüengoytia. 2012. A new species of Phymaturus of the patagonicus clade (Squamata, Liolaemidae) from isolated plateau of southwestern Rio Negro Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 3451: 17-30.



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