Armand Leroi | |
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| Born | 16 July 1964 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Fields | Evolutionary biology |
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| Thesis | The origin and evolution of life history trade-offs (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael R. Rose[1] |
| Website | www3 |
Armand Marie Leroi (born 16 July 1964)[2] is a New Zealand-born Dutch author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College in London.[3][4][5] He received the Guardian First Book Award in 2004 for his book Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. He has presented scientific documentaries on Channel 4 such as Extraterrestrial (2005) and What Makes Us Human (2006), and BBC Four such as What Darwin Didn't Know (2009), Aristotle's Lagoon (2010), and Secret Science of Pop (2012).
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- ^ Chippindale, Adam K.; Leroi, Armand M.; Kim, Sung B.; Rose, Michael R. (1993). "Phenotypic plasticity and selection in Drosophila life-history evolution. I. Nutrition and the cost of reproduction". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 6 (2): 171–193. doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.1993.6020171.x. S2CID 44697297.
- ^ Leroi, A. M.; Bennett, A. F.; Lenski, R. E. (1994). "Temperature acclimation and competitive fitness: an experimental test of the beneficial acclimation assumption". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91 (5): 1917–1921. Bibcode:1994PNAS...91.1917L. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.5.1917. PMC 43275. PMID 8127906.
- ^ Lauder, George V.; Leroi, Armand M.; Rose, Michael R. (1993). "Adaptations and history". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 8 (8): 294–297. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.378.1893. doi:10.1016/0169-5347(93)90258-Q. PMID 21236172.