Mark Kirkpatrick | |
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Born | Mark A. Kirkpatrick |
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Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Doctoral advisor | Montgomery Slatkin |
Other academic advisors | Joe Felsenstein |
Website | https://kirkpatricklab.org/ |
Mark A. Kirkpatrick is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He currently holds the T. S. Painter Centennial Professorship in Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] His research touches on a wide variety of topics, including the evolution of sex chromosomes, sexual selection, and speciation. Kirkpatrick is the co-author, along with Douglas J. Futuyma, of a popular undergraduate evolution textbook.[2] He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[3]