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Dec 06, 1951 Auburn, New York, United States 72 years old
American geneticist
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About Michael Lynch Geneticist
- Michael Lynch (born 1951) is the Director of the Biodesign Institute for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
- He held a Distinguished Professorship of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- Besides over 250 papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics.
- Alongside this textbook he has also published two other books.
- He has been a major force in promoting neutral theories to explain genomic architecture based on the effects of population sizes in different lineages; he presented this point of view comprehensively in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture".
- In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (Evolutionary Biology).
- Lynch was a Biology undergraduate at St.
- Bonaventure University and received a B.S.
- in Biology in 1973.
- He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota (Ecology and Behavioral Biology) in 1977.
