Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne at the University of Chicago, August 2006, with the "lab cat" Dusty.
Born	(1949-12-30) December 30, 1949 (age 67)
Residence	Chicago
Citizenship	American
Nationality	American
Fields	Ecology and Evolution
Institutions	University of Chicago, University of Maryland
Alma mater	College of William & Mary, Harvard University (Ph.D)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Lewontin
Notable students	H. Allen Orr, Mohamed Noor
Known for	Speciation and evolutionary genetics, particularly as they involve the fruit fly, Drosophila, and the books: Speciation Why Evolution Is True Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
Influences	Bruce Grant, Richard Lewontin, Garnett R. "Jack" Brooks
Influenced	H. Allen Orr, Kelly Dyer, Catherine Price, Audrey Chang, Mohamed Noor, Daniel R. Matute
Notable awards	President, Society for the Study of Evolution, 2011 Recipient, Richard Dawkins Award, 2015
Website WhyEvolutionIsTrue
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Contributor to popular publications including The New Republic, The New York Times Literary Supplement, Wired, The Skeptical Inquirer, and Edge Foundation, Inc. He is a member of the Genetics Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution, and American Society of Naturalists. The voice of Jerry Coyne recorded in February 2014 Problems playing this file? See media help.

Speciation and evolutionary genetics, particularly as they involve the fruit fly, Drosophila, and the books:

Contributor to popular publications including The New Republic, The New York Times Literary Supplement, Wired, The Skeptical Inquirer, and Edge Foundation, Inc. He is a member of the Genetics Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution, and American Society of Naturalists.

Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949) is an American professor of biology, known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design. A prolific scientist and author, he has published dozens of papers elucidating the theory of evolution. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. His concentration is speciation and ecological and evolutionary genetics, particularly as they involve the fruit fly, Drosophila. He is the author of the text Speciation and the bestselling non-fiction book Why Evolution Is True. Coyne maintains a website also called Why Evolution Is True. He self-identifies as a determinist of the incompatibilistic variety.

Coyne graduated with a B.S. in biology from the College of William & Mary in 1971. His graduate work at Rockefeller University under Theodosius Dobzhansky was interrupted when he was drafted. He then earned a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University in 1978, studying under Richard Lewontin, and went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis with Timothy Prout. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, and received the "Emperor Has No Clothes" award from the Freedom from Religion Foundation in 2011.