Richard Alan Nichols FLS is a British evolutionary biologist and Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at Queen Mary University of London. He is known for the Balding–Nichols model and the Beaumont and Nichols method for detecting natural selection. He developed statistical methods to allow the accurate use of DNA fingerprinting in criminal justice. He co-led a ground-breaking study that detected natural selection acting on ash dieback resistance, a highly polygenic trait.
- Occupation
- ecologist, geneticist
