Sean B. Carroll

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Sean B. Carroll (born September 17th, 1960) is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context of biological development, using Drosophila as a model system. He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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[edit] Biography

Carroll is the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (ISBN 0-393-06016-0), one of the first popular summary narratives of evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo).

He is also the author of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (ISBN 0-393-06163-9), in which Carroll argues for the irrefutable existence of natural selection by detailing numerous examples of DNA which has recently been traced from current species to long extinct ones.

Dr. Carroll is at the forefront of a field known as evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo"). He is a professor of genetics, medical genetics, and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madsion, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a strong advocate of the primacy of cis-regulatory evolution in the context of morphological evolution.

[edit] Education

Carroll received his bachelors at Washington University. He then received his Ph.D. in immunology from Tufts University.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Who's Who in America, 2008 Edition, Vol. 1 p. 728

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