Richard Lenski

Richard E. Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. [cite news | url=http://myxo.css.msu.edu/index.html | title=Richard Lenski | publisher=Michigan State University |year= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-09-17] He earned his BA from Oberlin College in 1976, and his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1982. [Campbell Reece, "Biology" Seventh Edition p538-539] He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds the office Hannah Distinguished Professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University. In 1996, Lenski won a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2006 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. Lenski is best known for his long-term "E. coli" evolution experiment and his work with digital organisms, using Avida. He is the son of sociologist Gerhard Lenski.

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* [https://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/ "E. coli" Long-term Experimental evolution site]
* [http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2765/content.htm News release from Michigan State University]
* [http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php The Loom : A New Step In Evolution]

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