David Haig
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David Haig is an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and professor in Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. His research interests include intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent-offspring conflict. He also wrote the book Genomic Imprinting and Kinship. His major contribution to the field of evolutionary theory is the kinship theory of genomic imprinting. David Haig received his degrees from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was a Royal Society Endeavour Fellow at Oxford and then a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is now George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and chair of the Australian Studies Committee at Harvard University.