Eric L. Charnov (born Oct 29, 1947 ) is an American evolutionary ecologist. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules. His 140 papers and 3 books have been cited about 15,000 times in the ISI data base; three have been cited at least 1500 times. He is a MacArthur Fellow ^[1] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Charnov gained his PhD in evolutionary ecology from the University of Washington in 1973. He has been a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico since 1998; previously he was a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah.

His research interests are:

Metabolic ecology: temperature and body size in the determination of biological times and rates; Evolutionary ecology: population genetics, [evolutionary] game theory, and optimization models to understand the evolution of life histories, kin selection, communication, sex allocation, sexual selection, and foraging decisions. Many of his papers are available as pdfs at https://repository.unm.edu .

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• Charnov, E.L. 1993. Life History Invariants. Oxford University Press, 167 pp.
• Charnov, E.L. 1982. The Theory of Sex Allocation. Princeton University Press, 355 pp

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1. ^ Fellows List at www.macfound.org

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