Raghavendra Gadagkar

thumb|Raghavendra Gadagkar Raghavendra Gadagkar (born 28 June 1953) is an Indian biologist, and full professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using Ropalidia marginata, a locally common wasp as a model. He is currently the President on the Indian National Science Academy. Quotes You see, if E. O. Wilson says that Indian scientists should do taxonomy, now of course, someone will say that you are preventing them from doing the sort of high science that is done elsewhere. So it should not come from there, it should come from us. I think that we must recognize where we have the advantages and where we have the disadvantages. Raghavendra Gadagkar, Michael L. Lewis Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947-1997 Modern Ecology Comes to India http://books.google.com/books?id=0Bl8s5JCM4UC&pg=PA129 2003 Ohio University Press 978-0-8214-1540-5 129 External links Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Biologists from India Category:Academics from India