Mike Steel

Distinguished ProfessorMike Steel

International Student Co-ordinator

Jack Erskine 623

Internal Phone: 92153

Research interests are applications of discrete mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory) and probability theory to contemporary problems in biology.

Gabora L. and Steel M. (2020) A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks: A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17(171) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0545rsif20200545.
Gabora L. and Steel M. (2020) Modeling a Cognitive Transition at the Origin of Cultural Evolution Using Autocatalytic Networks. Cognitive Science 44(9) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12878.
Gascuel O. and Steel M. (2020) A Darwinian Uncertainty Principle. Systematic Biology 69(3): 521-529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz054.
Sevillya G., Doerr D., Lerner Y., Stoye J., Steel M., Snir S. and Thorne J. (2020) Horizontal Gene Transfer Phylogenetics: A Random Walk Approach. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(5): 1470-1479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz302.
Steel M., Hordijk W. and Kauffman SA. (2020) Dynamics of a birth–death process based on combinatorial innovation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 491 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110187.

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