Michael Edwin Akam
FRS (born 19 June 1952, in
Bromley, Kent
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...
) is a British
zoologist
Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...
. He is professorial fellow of
Darwin College, Cambridge
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, and he is a director, University Museum of Zoology.
He was Damon Runyan fellow at
Stanford University
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, from 1979 to 1981.
He is
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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fellow.
Works
* Michael Akam (Ed), ''The evolution of developmental mechanisms'', Issue 1, Company of Biologists, 1994,
References
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20th-century British zoologists
1952 births
People from Bromley
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge
Living people
21st-century British zoologists
Professors of Zoology (Cambridge, 1866)