Michael Edwin Akam FRS (born 19 June 1952, in

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) is a British

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

. He is professorial fellow of

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, and he is a director, University Museum of Zoology. He was Damon Runyan fellow at

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, from 1979 to 1981. He is

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

fellow.

Works

* Michael Akam (Ed), ''The evolution of developmental mechanisms'', Issue 1, Company of Biologists, 1994,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akam, Michael 20th-century British zoologists 1952 births People from Bromley Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge Living people 21st-century British zoologists Professors of Zoology (Cambridge, 1866)