Sean B. Carroll

Author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

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Sean B. Carroll is a molecular biologist who writes popular science books and columns on biology, evolution and genetics. Not to be confused with another popular science writer, Sean M. Carroll, who is a physicist and blogger and writes on physics, time, and cosmology.

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo 580 copies, 17 reviews
The Making of the Fittest 349 copies, 12 reviews
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of… 219 copies, 8 reviews
From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal… 47 copies
Into The Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution 35 copies, 1 review
Die Darwin-DNA 3 copies

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Canonical name

Carroll, Sean B.

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Date of birth

1960-09-17

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Gender

male

Nationality

USA

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Birthplace

Toledo, Ohio, USA

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Places of residence

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Education

Washington University, St. Louis (BA ∙ Biology)

Tufts University School of Medicine (PhD)

Occupations

Professor of Molecular Biology

Columnist

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

author

Relationships

Organizations

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

University of Wisconsin, Madison

National Academy of Sciences

Awards and honors

National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award

Agents

Russ Galen

Short biography

Sean B. Carroll is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is one of the leading biologists of his generation, and his seminal discoveries have been featured in Time, U.S. News and World Report, Discover, and the New York Times, among other publications.[from Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2005)]

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