Claude Combes
Claude Combes is a French biologist and parasitologist. He is a professor of animal biology and director of the Centre de Biologie et Écologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne at the Université de Perpignan.
He got his aggregation of natural sciences in 1958 and a doctoral degree in 1967.
He has received several scientific awards including the CNRS Silver Medal, Skryabin Medal, Philip Morris Research Prize.
He has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1996.
Books
La Vie, 2002 Ellipses Taxonomie, écologie et évolution des métazoaires parasites., 2003 PUPThe Art of Being a Parasite, 2005 The University of Chicago Press Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology,, 2002 SpringerInteractions durables. Ecologie et évolution du parasitisme, 1995 Masson L'homme et l'animal. De Lascaux à la vache folle, 1999 Belin Les associations du vivant : l'art d'être parasite, 2001 FlammarionParasitism. The Ecology and Evolution of Intimate Interactions. 2001 University of Chicago Press