Andrew Berry (biologist)

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Andrew Berry
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Andrew Berry speaking at MIT on Darwin Day 2019
Born (1963-07-11) July 11, 1963 (age 60)
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Oxford, Princeton University
Known forAlfred Wallace history
Scientific career
Fields Genetics, History of Science
Institutions Harvard University

Andrew Berry (born 1963) is a British evolutionary biologist and historian of science with a particular interest in Alfred Russel Wallace. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and he is currently a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. [1]

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Early life

Andrew Berry was born in 1963 in London. His father is biologist R. J. Berry. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and then studied Zoology at St John's College, Oxford. He did his PhD under Martin Kreitman in evolutionary genetics at Princeton University. [2] At Harvard, he did post-doctoral work in Richard Lewontin's lab.

Career

Berry's research combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection (i.e. adaptive evolution) at the molecular level in natural populations. In addition to technical articles, he has published in the London Review of Books, [3] [4] [5] Slate, [6] and elsewhere. He has published two books: Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology, 2003, with a foreword written by Stephen Jay Gould, [7] and DNA: The Secret of Life with James Watson, 2003. [8] In addition to lecturing at Harvard, he also leads a Harvard Summer Study Abroad program at Queen's College, Oxford on the history of evolutionary biology and on current ideas in the field. [9] He teaches evolutionary biology regularly at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey, and is accordingly targeted by Turkish creationist organizations. [10]

Berry has worked on the script development for several major TV shows: Race, the Power of an Illusion in 2003 by PBS, [11] the 5-part Channel 4 DNA, [2] and NOVA's Lord of the Ants. [12] In 2013, along with George Beccaloni, curator with a special interest in Orthopteroidea and the Alfred Russel Wallace collections at the Natural History Museum, London, Berry narrated a short animated film for The New York Times to celebrate the Alfred Russel Wallace's centenary. [13]

Personal life

He is married to Harvard Professor Naomi Pierce, and they have twin children.

Berry was pranked during a comedy video where YouTuber, JiDion crashed a Life Sciences lecture. [14]

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  3. Berry, Andrew (18 May 2000). "London Review of Books". An Ugly Baby: Alfred Russel Wallace. Vol. 22, no. 10. London Review of Books.
  4. Berry, Andrew (3 February 2000). "London Review of Books". Data Guy: Charles Darwin. Vol. 22, no. 3. London Review of Books.
  5. Berry, Andrew (6 February 2003). "London Review of Books". W D Hamilton. Vol. 25, no. 3. London Review of Books.
  6. "Slate". Dolly the Cloned Sheep. Slate. 2 March 1997.
  7. Alfred Russel Wallace; Andrew Berry; Stephen Jay Gould (2003). Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology. Verso. ISBN   9781859844786.
  8. Berry, Andrew (2008). DNA: The Secret of Life. Paw Prints. ISBN   9781435290709.
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