Steven A. Frank's Home Page

I am Donald Bren Professor and UCI Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. These pages provide information about my research interests and publications. My books and articles can be downloaded in PDF format.


New article The Origin of Novel Traits in Cancer describes parallel advances in cancer research and evolutionary biology, emphasizing nongenetic plasticity as a primary driver of novel traits. These advances mutually reinforce a revolution in our understanding of how cells and organisms evolve.



Microbial Life History

Click cover for information, download preprint of entire book



Click images for information and downloading of my books and series


My YouTube channel has several video lectures, including these recent talks on robustness (left) and cancer (right)

    

and video recordings of my graduate class Puzzles in Modern Biology


Read my essay about the development of social evolution theory in the 1990s


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