Michael Conrad (biologist)
Michael Conrad | |
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| Born | 1941 |
| Died | 2000 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Institutions | Wayne State University |
Michael Earl Conrad (1941–2000) was an American theoretical biologist.theoretical biology.[3]
Conrad was the first to publish theory on the evolution of
adaptive landscape would increase the chance that other adaptive mutations could be continually produced, and would thereby hitchhike along with those mutations, thus "bootstrapping the adaptive landscape"[5] to produce the "self-facilitation of evolution".[6]
Career
Conrad received his A.B. in Biology at
Stanford University Medical School but was persuaded by faculty there to pursue a Ph.D. in Biophysics with Professor Howard H. Pattee
, which he obtained in 1969.
Conrad continued with postdoctoral research at the Center for Theoretical Studies at the University of Miami, and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley working with
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
.
Conrad finally obtained a tenure-track position in the Computer Science department of Wayne State University in 1979, where he remained for the rest of his career.[7]
References
- ^ Obituary in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5(1), 2001.
- ^ Obituary in Stanford Magazine
- Robert Rosen1986. [Review.] Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 48(5/6): 701–703.
- ^ Conrad, Michael (1972). C.H. Waddington (ed.). "The importance of molecular hierarchy in information processing". Towards a Theoretical Biology. 4. Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh: 222.
- PMID 497367.
- PMID 7329083.)
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