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

Biography

He held a

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ship of

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and

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. Besides over 250 papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with

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. 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; he presented this point of view in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture". In 2009, he was elected to the

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(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

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(Ecology and Behavioral Biology) in 1977.

Honors and awards

*2013: President of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lynch, Michael 1951 births Living people University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences alumni Evolutionary biologists Population geneticists Indiana University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Neutral theory

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