Yoh Iwasa

Yoh Iwasa (born 1952) is a Japanese Mathematical Biologist who is considered the leading mathematical biologist in Japan.^[1]

His work includes the evolution of costly mate preferences and the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Notable papers include:

"The evolution of costly mate preferences II. The 'handicap' principle" Evolution 1991
"Demographic theory for an open marine population with space-limited recruitment" with Joan Roughgarden Ecology 1985
"Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukaemia" Nature 2005
"Prey distribution as a factor determining the choice of optimal foraging strategy" The American Naturalist 1981 - JSTOR
"Influence of nonlinear incidence rates upon the behavior of SIRS epidemiological models" with Simon Levin Journal of Mathematical Biology, 1986

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 78551771 LCCN: n82057678 ISNI: 0000 0000 4764 949X SUDOC: 115051244 NDL: 00121278

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