Andrew Berry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andrew Berry

British evolutionary biologist and historian of science

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1963

Place of Birth: London

Profession: evolutionary biologist, historian of science

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Andrew Berry

  • Andrew Berry (born 1963) is a British evolutionary biologist and historian of science with a particular interest in Alfred Wallace.
  • He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and is currently a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
  • His research combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection (i.e.
  • adaptive evolution) at the molecular level in natural populations.
  • In addition to technical articles, he has published in the London Review of Books, Slate, and elsewhere.
  • He has published two books: Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology, 2003, with a foreword written by Stephen Jay Gould, and DNA: The Secret of Life with James D.
  • Watson, 2003.
  • In addition to lecturing at Harvard, he also leads a Harvard Summer Study Abroad program at Queen's College, Oxford on the history of evolutionary biology and on current ideas in the field.
  • He teaches evolutionary biology regularly at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, and is accordingly targeted by Turkish creationist organizations. Berry has worked on the script development for several major TV shows: Race, the Power of an Illusion in 2003 by PBS, the 5-part Channel 4 DNA, and NOVA's Lord of the Ants.
  • In 2013, along with George Beccaloni, curator with a special interest in Orthopteroidea and the Alfred Russel Wallace collections at the Natural History Museum, London, Berry narrated a short animated film for The New York Times to celebrate the Alfred Russel Wallace's centenary.

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