Richard Lenski
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Richard E. Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. He holds the position of Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial ecology at Michigan State University. In 1996 Lenski won a MacArthur Fellowship (so-called "genius award").
Lenski is best known for his long-term E. coli evolution experiment, and his work with digital organisms, using Avida.
Richard Lenski is the son of sociologist Gerhard Lenski.