First name
JohnLast name
AlcockAcademic unit
The College of Liberal Arts and SciencesStatus
DeceasedWeb Directory link
https://search.asu.edu/profile/204151Type of professor
Regents ProfessorYear
1988Bio summary
Alcock first came to ASU in 1972. He was a scholar of evolutionary biology in the School of Life Sciences and devoted his more than 40-year career to studying how animals adapted to living in the natural world and then teaching others the wonders he discovered. Early in his ASU career, he authored a widely used and engaging textbook: "Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach."