Nick Barton

{{Short description|British evolutionary biologist}}

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|name = Nicholas Barton

| birth_name = Nicholas Hamilton Barton

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|size=100%|FRS|FRSE}}

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age |df=yes|1955|08|30}}

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|citizenship = British

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|field = Evolutionary biology

|work_institutions = {{Plainlist|

• University College London
• University of Edinburgh
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria}}

|alma_mater = {{Plainlist|

• Peterhouse, Cambridge (BA)
• University of East Anglia (PhD)}}

|doctoral_advisor = Godfrey Hewitt{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae – Nicholas Hamilton Barton|url=https://ist.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/Faculty_CV_Pubs/Barton_CV.pdf|access-date=8 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231211605/http://ist.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/Faculty_CV_Pubs/Barton_CV.pdf|archive-date=31 December 2016|url-status=dead}}

| thesis_title = A narrow hybrid zone in the alpine grasshopper podisma pedestris

| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.449105

| thesis_year = 1979

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|known_for = Evolution textbook

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|prizes = {{Plainlist|

• Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society (1985)
• FRS (1994)
• Darwin Medal (2006)
• Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008)
• Erwin Schrödinger Prize (2013)}}

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Nicholas Hamilton Barton {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FRSE}} (born 30 August 1955) is a British evolutionary biologist.{{Cite journal

| pmid = 15020491

| pmc = 1470728

| year = 2004

| last1 = Barton

| first1 = N. H. | authorlink1 = Nick Barton

| title = The effect of selection on genealogies

| journal = Genetics

| volume = 166

| issue = 2

| pages = 1115–31

| last2 = Etheridge

| first2 = A. M. | authorlink2 = Alison Etheridge

| doi=10.1534/genetics.166.2.1115

}} {{open access}}[http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/biology/evolutionary-biology/staff-profiles?id=nbarton&cw_xml=research_profile.php Prof. Barton's staff homepage at the University of Edinburgh]{{Cite web |url=http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/nick-barton%2849356fa7-faff-4af0-828f-a0a5a3b8f063%29/publications.html?page=1 |title=List of publications |access-date=10 April 2014 |archive-date=10 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510105116/http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/nick-barton(49356fa7-faff-4af0-828f-a0a5a3b8f063)/publications.html?page=1 |url-status=dead }}{{Scopus|id=http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7202939371}}{{Cite journal

| last1 = Barton | first1 = N. H.

| last2 = Hewitt | first2 = G. M.

| doi = 10.1038/341497a0

| title = Adaptation, speciation and hybrid zones

| journal = Nature

| volume = 341

| issue = 6242

| pages = 497–503

| year = 1989

| pmid = 2677747

| bibcode = 1989Natur.341..497B

| s2cid = 4360057

}}{{Cite journal

| pmid = 11298968

| year = 2001

| last1 = Barton

| first1 = N. H.

| title = The role of hybridization in evolution

| journal = Molecular Ecology

| volume = 10

| issue = 3

| pages = 551–68

| doi=10.1046/j.1365-294x.2001.01216.x

| bibcode = 2001MolEc..10..551B

| s2cid = 22129817

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