David Fulker
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David William Fulker (8 March 1937 – 9 July 1998) was a British
Contributions to behaviour genetics
In 1970, Fulker and John L. Jinks published a proposal that the biometric genetic approach should be applied to human behaviour.[2] Seemingly a commonplace idea today, this was a landmark paper, and became a citation classic.[citation needed]
At the
Fulker worked on combining quantitative and molecular genetic approaches, adapting the DeFries–Fulker regression approach to this purpose.
With a former PhD student
Career
Fulker's father had been a miner in Wales, but moved the family to London, where Fulker grew up. He was initially trained as a teacher, and working in this profession (teaching chemistry) and as a photographer. Fulker subsequently obtained a BSc in psychology at Birkbeck College, London University, graduating with first class honours, and deciding to work in genetics.
Fulker pursued this interest, obtaining both a Masters and a PhD at Birmingham University supervised by John Jinks. Exceptionally for a post-graduate student, his first publication (on fruit fly mating) was published in Science in 1966.
Fulker joined the staff at Birmingham as a
In 1996, he was recruited back to the
Fulker was married to Angela Elliott with whom he had one child, Rosanna, born in 1985 and a stepdaughter, Katherine.
References
Further reading
- Hewitt, John (2012). "David William Fulker (1937–1998) Executive Editor of Behavior Genetics". Twin Research. 1 (3): 165–166. .
- Hewitt, John (1998). "In memoriam: David William Fulker, Ph.D. (1937–1998) member of the editorial board of Neuropsychiatric Genetics". American Journal of Medical Genetics. 81 (5): 353–354. .
- Hewitt, John (1998). "David William Fulker (1937–1998)". Behavior Genetics. 28 (4): 239–242. .