# David A. Haig George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Associate of Dudley House ![David Haig with gray hair, a beard, wearing glasses and a suit, in front of grey background](/sites/g/files/omnuum6811/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/oeb/files/david_haig_crop.jpeg?itok=bFI_YLMK) location\_on The Museum of Comparative Zoology 410A26 Oxford StreetCambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-496-5125](tel:617-496-5125) email laptop\_windows [Haig Group](http://haiggroup.oeb.harvard.edu/) Faculty Support: [Erin Ciccone](/people/erin-ciccone) Because I am theorist, my research is wide and varied. I work on everything from maternal-fetal conflict in human pregnancy to the evolution of plant life cycles. I have a particular interest in genetic conflicts within individual organisms, as exemplified by genomic imprinting. **Recent Publications** Haig, D. & Úbeda, F. (2011) Genomic Imprinting: An Obsession with Depilatory Mice. *Current Biology* **21**(7): R257 - R259. Haig, D. (2011) Genomic imprinting and the evolutionary psychology of human kinship. *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* **108**: 10878 - 10885. Gregg, C., Zhang, J., Butler, J. E., Haig, D. & Dulac, C. (2010) Sex-Specific Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in the Mouse Brain. *Science* **329**(5992): 682 - 685. Gregg, C., Zhang, J., Weissbourd, B., Luo, S., Schroth, G. P., Haig, D. & Dulac, C. (2010) High-Resolution Analysis of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in the Mouse Brain. *Science* **329**(5992): 643 - 648. Patten, M. M., Haig, D. & Úbeda, F. (2010) Fitness variation due to sexual antagonism and linkage disequilibrium. *Evolution* **64**(12): 3638 - 3642. Úbeda, F., Haig, D. & Patten, M. M. (2010) Stable linkage disequilibrium owing to sexual antagonism. *Proceedings of the Royal Society* **B 278**(1707): 855 - 862. Haig, D. (2010) Games in tetrads: segregation, recombination, and meiotic drive.*American Naturalist* **176**(4): 404 - 413. Haig, D. (2010) What do we know about charophyte (streptophyta) life cycles?*Journal of Phycology* 46(5): 860 - 867. Patten, M. M. & Haig, D. (2009) Maintenance or loss of genetic variation under sexual and parental antagonism at a sex-linked locus. *Evolution* 63(11): 2888 - 2895. #### Books and Book Chapters: Haig, D. (2006) The gene meme. Pages 50-65, in Richard Dawkins. *How a scientist changed the way we think*. A. Grafen & M. Ridley (eds.) Oxford University Press, Oxford. Haig, D. (2006) Intrapersonal conflict. Pages 8-22, in *Conflict*. M. K. Jones & A. C. Fabian (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Haig, D. (2002) *Genomic imprinting and kinship*. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey. - ## Building [MCZ](/building/mcz) - ## Faculty Affiliation [Museum of Comparative Zoology](/faculty-affiliation/museum-comparative-zoology) - ## Lab Group [Haig Lab Members](/lab-group/haig-lab) - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) [Department Faculty](/people/department-faculty) - ## Research Areas [Evolution](/research-areas/evolution) [Behavior](/research-areas/behavior) [Mathematical & Computational Biology](/research-areas/mathematical-computational-biology) [Neuroethology & Behavioral Ecology](/research-areas/neuroethology-and-behavioral-ecology) - ## Search by Last Name [E-H](/search-last-name/e-h)