Michael Lynch (geneticist)

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Michael Lynch
Born (1951-12-06) 6 December 1951 (age 72)
Auburn, New York, USA
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Known forcontributions to Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics,
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics, Population genetics, Evolution
InstitutionsIndiana University, Arizona State University

Michael Lynch (born 1951) is the Director of the Biodesign Institute for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

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He held a Distinguished Professorship of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Besides over 250[1][2] papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh. Alongside this textbook he has also published two other books. He promotes neutral theories to explain genomic architecture based on the effects of population sizes in different lineages;[3] he presented this point of view in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture".[4] 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.

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  1. ^ "Publications | The Biodesign Institute | ASU". biodesign.asu.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  2. ^ "Michael Lynch". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  3. ^ Lynch, Michael (2007-05-15). "The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (suppl_1): 8597–8604. doi:10.1073/pnas.0702207104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1876435. PMID 17494740.
  4. ^ "The origins of genome architecture". Choice Reviews Online. 45 (2): 45–0862-45-0862. 2007-10-01. doi:10.5860/choice.45-0862. ISSN 0009-4978.
  5. ^ "Past and Present GSA Officers". GSA. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
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