Raghavendra gadagkar biography of mahatma

Indian ecologist (born 1953)

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 2014 to 2016, the president of the Indian National Science Academy.

Raghavendra gadagkar biography of mahatma

Gadagkar has published over 275 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 1964. He helped established a research group that has examined theoretical predictions, proximate and ultimate factors in the evoluti