Barry R. Sinervo (1961–2021) was a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist.
He was a full professor at University of California Santa Cruz where his research interests included game theory,[1] climate change,[2][3][4] herpetology, and animal behavior.
[5] One of his major discoveries was of a rock-paper-scissors game in side-blotched lizard mating behaviour.
[6][7][8] He also discovered evidence of the Baldwin effect in the side-blotched lizard.
[10] A species of lizard was named after Sinervo, Phymaturus sinervoi Scolaro et al., 2012.