Guy Alexander Cooper

​I am an evolutionary biologist using game theory and mathematics to explain why division of labour occurs in the natural world and to try to understand the evolution of complex life.

I work in the Zoology Department of the University of Oxford with funding from St. John's College, Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow. 

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​Contact details
​If you would like to get in touch, I can be contacted by email at the following address: guy.cooper@zoo.ox.ac.uk

You can also follow me on twitter! @GuyACooper
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Publications

• Cooper, G.A., Levin, S.R., Wild, G. & West, S.A. (2018) Modelling relatedness and demography in social evolution. Evolution Letters 2(4), 260-271
• Cooper, G.A. & West, S.A. (2018) Division of labour and the evolution of extreme specialisation. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2(7),  1161
• Bruce, J.B., Cooper, G.A. Chabas, H., West, S.A., & Griffin, A.S. (2017). Cheating and resistance to cheating in natural populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. Evolution 71(10), 2484-2495.
• West, S.A. & Cooper, G.A. (2016) Division of Labour in Microorganisms: An Evolutionary Perspective. Nature Reviews Microbiology 14, 11
• Cooper, G.A., Graves, J. P., Cooper, W. A., Gruber, R., & Peterson, R.S. (2009). BECOOL: Ballooning eigensolver with COOL finite elements. Journal of Computational Physics 228(13), 4911-4916.
• Cooper, G.A., Jucker, M., Cooper, W.A., Graves, J.P., & Isaev, M.Y. (2007). Exact canonical drift Hamiltonian formalism with pressure anisotropy and finite perturbed fields. Physics of Plasmas 14(10), 102506.