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Draft:Andrew Pomiankowski

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  • Comment: Along with the above two concerns, there are some concern AI hallmarks here as well. This draft in all likelihood needs to be wholly re-written. Sulfurboy (talk) 21:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: Likely notable per WP:NACADEMIC, but draft lacks citations for several key assertions about the subject's career. Lots of citations of works by Pomiankowski, but no references giving significant coverage about him in reliable independent secondary sources (UCL websites are primary sources). Paul W (talk) 13:57, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

As well as a well-known scientist, Pomiankowski also hosts major administrative positions at University College London, widely regarded as number 3 university in the United Kingdom. So why can we not use a "primary source" (such as the UCL website) to show this?


Andrew Pomiankowski (born 1959) is an English evolutionary biologist known for his publications on sexual selection.

Biography

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Andrew Pomiankowski was born in London in 1959. He is of Polish descent (his emigré family descends from a Pomiankowski family in Poland).[[

He graduated with first-class honours degree from the University of Oxford in 1980-1981, winning the Gibbs Prize.[1]

He spent a year (1982) at Harvard University, USA in the group of Richard Lewontin on a Kennedy Scholarship[2] before moving back to England for postgraduate study in 1983 at the University of Sussex with John Maynard Smith, graduating with a D. Phil. in 1987.

He had various postdoctoral appointments at The University of Oxford, working with W.D. Hamilton.[3]

In 1991 he moved with his Royal Society University Research Fellowship to the Galton Laboratory of Genetics and Biometry, University College London (UCL), where he became Lecturer, Reader, and ultimately Professor in 2001.[citation needed]

In 2022 he became the JBS Haldane Professor of Genetics at UCL. He became the Head of Department of the merged Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology, and he is currently the director of the Division of Biosciences,[4] the largest division at UCL.

Earlier in his career, he largely explored the Darwinian conception of sexual selection via population genetics theory, particularly Amotz Zahavi's "handicap principle",[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

His work helped to revolutionize earlier Darwinian ideas about sexual selection. Ever since Darwin's original work, Darwin's thesis on sexual selection was largely dismissed, before the late 1980s and 1990s, in favour of a view of mate choice that merely helped whole species to reproduce. This is today considered rather a group selectionist view view of evolution -- see Group Selection. His publications were frequently mentioned in news media in the 1990s, for example in The New Scientist.[12]

On the strength of this work he became an invited Schering Fellow at The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, known in English as the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study for a sabbatical in 1996/1997.[13]

After this largely theoretical work, Pomiankowski became interested in an empirical system. Impressed by a paper by Gerald Wilkinson, Laurence Hurst and Andrew Pomiankowski wrote a News and Views article in Nature, "The Eyes Have It",[14] on the Stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni. This species has eyes on long stalks, which are particularly long in the males. Males "joust" with each other for control of females, and the winner is usually the male with the longest eye stalks. Pomiankowski traveled to Malaysia to collect stocks of these flies, and he and his research group helped to develop the Malaysian stalk-eyed flies (known informally as "stalkies") into a model system for the study of sexual selection. He and his colleagues subsequently published a number of highly cited works on sexual selection in this species. For example:

[15][16][17]

Today (July 2026), as well as holding a named Professorship (J.B.S. Haldane Professor) at University College London, and managing a number of Departments in the Biosciences, he is also an active scientist. He has 157 published scientific articles and book chapters listed on Clarivate's Web of Science, and his work has been cited over 9,000 times by other scientific articles.[18] On Google Scholar, which is automated and therefore has a somewhat more lax attitude to what is a scholarly article, he has over 200 publications, and has been cited over 14,000 times.[19]

References

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  1. ^ Gibbs Prize, University of Oxford. https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/fees-funding/prizes-and-awards/gibbs
  2. ^ https://www.kennedytrust.org.uk/scholars/
  3. ^ https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/11067-andrew-pomiankowski
  4. ^ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/biosciences
  5. ^ Pomiankowski, A. 1987. Sexual selection: the handicap principle does work – sometimes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences 231:123–145. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1987.0038
  6. ^ Pomiankowski, A. 1987. The costs of choice in sexual selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology 128:195–218. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519387801698
  7. ^ Hurst, L.D., & Pomiankowski, A. 1991. Causes of sex ratio bias may account for unisexual sterility in hybrids: a new explanation of Haldane's Rule and related phenomena. Genetics 128:841–858. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/128.4.841
  8. ^ Pomiankowski, A., Iwasa, Y., & Nee, S. 1991. The evolution of costly mate preferences I. Fisher and biased mutation. Evolution 45:1422–1430. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb02645.x
  9. ^ Iwasa, Y., Pomiankowski, A., & Nee, S. 1991. The evolution of costly mate preferences. II. The "handicap" principle. Evolution 45:1431–1442. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb02646.x
  10. ^ Pomiankowski, A., & Møller, A.P. 1995. A resolution of the lek paradox. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 260:21–29. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0054
  11. ^ Iwasa, Y., & Pomiankowski, A. 1995. Continual change in mate preferences. Nature (London) 377:420–422. https://doi.org/10.1038/377420a0
  12. ^ Mestel, Rosie. 1995. Arts of seduction. New Scientist 23 December 1995. https://www.newscientist.com/article/1838179-arts-of-seduction/
  13. ^ https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/academic-year/1996/pomiankowski-andrew
  14. ^ Hurst, L.D., & Pomiankowski, A. 1998. The eyes have it. Nature (London) 391:223–224. https://doi.org/10.1038/34523
  15. ^ David, P., Bjorksten, T., Fowler, K., & Pomiankowski, A. 2000. Condition-dependent signalling of genetic variation in stalk-eyed flies. Nature (London) 406:186–188. https://doi.org/10.1038/35018079
  16. ^ Cotton, S., Fowler, K., & Pomiankowski, A. 2004. Do sexual ornaments demonstrate heightened condition-dependent expression as predicted by the handicap hypothesis? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271:771–783. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2688
  17. ^ Cotton, S., Fowler, K., & Pomiankowski, A. 2004. Condition dependence of sexual ornament size and variation in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (Diptera: Diopsidae). Evolution 58:1038–1046. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00437.x
  18. ^ Clarivate Web of Science. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1097397
  19. ^ Google Scholar: Andrew Pomiankowski. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zwI4vd0AAAAJ
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