Graham Bell

Graham Bell, FRS, is James McGill Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University. As an evolutionary biologist, his research interests focus on revealing the mechanism of natural selection, explaining the main features of life cycles, and investigating the maintenance of biodiversity.

He helped to found in the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, and he served as its first president from 2005 to 2007. His work has been recognized by his election to Fellowship in RSC (1994), Honorary Fellowship of St. Peter's College at Oxford (2003), and Fellow of the Royal Society (2016).

Bell served as director of the Redpath Museum from 1995 to 2005 and chair of the Biology Department at McGill University from 2011 to 2016. He was president of the Royal Society of Canada from 2013 to 2015. His books include The Evolution of Life and Full Fathom 5000.