Andrew Berry is a British evolutionary biologist and historian of science with a particular interest in Alfred Wallace. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and is currently a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection at the molecular level in natural populations. In addition to technical articles, he has published in the London Review of Books, Slate, and elsewhere. He has published two books Infinite tropics an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology, 2003, with a foreword written by Stephen Jay Gould, and DNA The Secret of Life with James D. Watson, 2003. In addition to lecturing at Harvard, he also leads a Harvard Summer Study Abroad program at Queens College, Oxford on the history of evolutionary biology and on current ideas in the field. He teaches evolutionary biology regularly at Sabanc University in Istanbul, Turkey, and is accordingly targeted b
Andrew Berry was born in 1963 in London. His father is biologist R. J. Berry. He attended Shrewsbury School, has a degree in Zoology from St Johns College, University of Oxford, and did his PhD under Martin Kreitman in evolutionary genetics at Princeton University. At Harvard, he did postdoctoral work in Richard Lewontins lab. He is married to Harvard Professor Naomi Pierce, and they have twin daughters named Megan and Katie.
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