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Armand Leroi
Born (1964-07-16) 16 July 1964 (age 59)
Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality
  • New Zealand
  • Dutch
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
Institutions
ThesisThe origin and evolution of life history trade-offs (1993)
Doctoral advisorMichael R. Rose[1]
Websitewww3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.leroi

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 Alien Worlds (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).

Early life and education

A Dutch citizen, Leroi was born in

Ph.D. by the University of California, Irvine in 1993.[1] This was followed by postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an experimental organism.[6][7]

Career

In 2001, Leroi was appointed lecturer at

Imperial College, London. He has written several books, including Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body.[8][9] In 2004 he adapted his book into a television documentary series for Britain's Channel 4 entitled Human Mutants.[10]

Leroi has presented two other TV documentary series for Channel 4: Alien Worlds in 2005, and What Makes Us Human in 2006. Despite his TV appearances, Leroi has expressed scepticism about the truthfulness of television creatives. In an email exchange with TV director

Martin Durkin, concerning the latter's documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, Leroi wrote: "left to their own devices, TV producers simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth".[11]

He is also known as one of the first testers of the beneficial acclimation hypothesis. In 2005, Leroi published an article in The New York Times entitled "A Family Tree in Every Gene", which argued for the usefulness of racial types in medical genetics.[12]

In January 2009 Leroi presented the BBC4 documentary

Evolutionary Theory since the original publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.[13]

In January 2010 Leroi presented the BBC4 documentary Aristotle's Lagoon, filmed on the Greek island of Lesbos and suggesting that Aristotle was the world's first biologist.[2] The documentary account was expanded in his 2014 book The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science.[14][15] He accepted Aristotle as his "scientific hero", describing: "His genius was simply to invent biology."[6]

Leroi collaborated on the

US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010, and found that popular music emerged in three stylistic revolutions around 1964, 1983 and 1991. The study was published in the Royal Society Open Science in 2015.[19] Explaining the contributions of The Beatles to the evolution of music, he said, "They're not making that [1964] revolution, they're joining it.[20] In 2016, he presented The Secret Science of Pop on BBC4.[21]

Awards and honours

Leroi received the EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 2006.[22] In 2004, he won the Guardian First Book Award for Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body.[23][24] He was awarded the 2014 JBS Haldane Lecture of The Genetics Society.[25] The same year he received the London Hellenic Prize of the Hellenic Centre for The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science.[26]

Books

  • Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Viking/Penguin, 2004)
    ISBN 978-0142004821[23]
  • The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science (Viking, 9/25/2014)
    ISBN 978-0670026746[27]

References

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  2. ^ a b "Professor Armand Leroi". Knight Ayton Management. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
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  9. ^ "Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi - Reviews - Books". The Independent. 22 June 2004. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
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  11. ^ "durkinemails.htm". Ocean.mit.edu. 9 March 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  12. ^ The New York Times, retrieved 2009-09-30
  13. ^ "BBC Four - What Darwin Didn't Know". BBC. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
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  17. ^ London, Imperial College. "On the origin of music by means of natural selection". phys.org. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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  20. ^ Smith, Carl (17 December 2017). "'Relentlessly average': Evolutionary biology suggests The Beatles 'weren't musically important'". ABC News. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  21. ^ "BBC Four - The Secret Science of Pop". BBC. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  22. ^ "EMBO honors triple talents of UK scientist, author, broadcaster". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  23. ^ a b Pauli, Michelle (1 December 2004). "Guardian First Book award goes to biology lecturer". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  24. ^ Guardian Staff (30 November 2004). "Armand Marie Leroi wins the Guardian First Book Award 2004". the Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  25. ^ "JBS Haldane Lecture 2014 - Armand Leroi". Genetics Society. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  26. ^ "Past Winners". London Hellenic Prize 01. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  27. ^ Gee, Henry (2 October 2014). "The Lagoon: How Aristotle invented science by Armand Marie Leroi – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
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