Robert Keith Selander (July 21, 1927 – June 14, 2015) was an American
evolutionary biologist
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life for ...
and emeritus professor at
Pennsylvania State University. Known for his studies of
molecular genetics
Molecular genetics is a sub-field of biology that addresses how differences in the structures or expression of DNA molecules manifests as variation among organisms. Molecular genetics often applies an "investigative approach" to determine the ...
, he was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
References
External links
Howard Ochman, "Robert K. Selander", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)
1927 births
2015 deaths
American geneticists
Evolutionary biologists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Pennsylvania State University faculty
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