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

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, and he is a director, University Museum of Zoology. He was Damon Runyan fellow at

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, from 1979 to 1981. He is

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

fellow.

Works

* Michael Akam (Ed), ''The evolution of developmental mechanisms'', Issue 1, Company of Biologists, 1994,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akam, Michael 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)