Alan Templeton | |
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| Born | Alan Robert Templeton |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis University of Michigan |
| Known for | Quantifying human genetic diversity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human genetics |
| Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis, University of Haifa |
| Thesis | Statistical Models of Parthenogenesis (1972) |
Alan R. Templeton is an American geneticist and statistician at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is the Charles Rebstock emeritus professor of biology.[1] From 2010 to 2019, he held positions in the Institute of Evolution and the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Haifa.[2] He is known for his work demonstrating the degree of genetic diversity among humans and, in his opinion, the biological unreality of human races.[3]