
Distinguished ProfessorMike Steel
International Student Co-ordinator
Jack Erskine 623
Phone: +6433692153
Internal Phone: 92153
Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
Research interests are applications of discrete mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory) and probability theory to contemporary problems in biology.
Recent Publications
- Bai A., Erdős PL., Semple C. and Steel M. (2021) Defining phylogenetic networks using ancestral profiles. Mathematical Biosciences 332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2021.108537.
- 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.