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Benjamin Kerr

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Publications

48

Citations

4.9K

H-Index

28

Active since

1999

Affiliations

University of Washington(Current)

Stanford University

Michigan State University

University of Minnesota

Michigan United

Benjamin Kerr is an author at University of Washington specializing in evolutionary biology, biology, and natural sciences.

Top concepts

Evolutionary BiologyBiologyMedicineNatural SciencesEngineeringSocial SciencesPopulation GeneticsGeneticsBiodiversityGenetic Variation

Publications per year

1999–2023

48

Publications

48

Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors

Benjamin Kerr, Margaret A. Riley, Marcus W. Feldman et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.7K citations

Biology, Biodiversity, Local Dispersal +4

Local migration promotes competitive restraint in a host–pathogen 'tragedy of the commons'

Benjamin Kerr, Claudia Neuhauser, Brendan J. M. Bohannan et al. · Nature · 2006 · 390 citations

Host–pathogen 'Tragedy, Human Migration, Infectious Disease Ecology +7

Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change

Haley A. Lindsey, Jenna Gallie, Susan Taylor et al. · Nature · 2013 · 335 citations

Biology, Biodiversity Loss, Biodiversity +7

Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity

Katrin Hammerschmidt, Caroline J. Rose, Benjamin Kerr et al. · Nature · 2014 · 237 citations

Biology, Fitness Decoupling, Fitness +5

Individualist and Multi-level Perspectives on Selection in Structured Populations

Benjamin Kerr, Peter Godfrey‐Smith · Biology & Philosophy · 2002 · 174 citations

Structured Populations, Evolutionary Biology, Natural Selection +2

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