Michael Lynch (geneticist)

Michael Lynch ( * 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and population geneticist.

Michael Lynch acquired in 1977 at the University of Minnesota academic degree Ph.D. in ecology. He teaches at Indiana University. He has written several recognized in professional circles textbooks. In his major work published in 2007 The Origin of Genome Architecture Lynch attacked the synthetic theory of evolution in such a way that it negates the need for natural selection and adaptation to the enforcement of mutations in the population. He points out that the enforcement of mutations without adaptive processes may be possible.

2002 Lynch Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009, the National Academy of Sciences. 2013 Lynch President of the Genetics Society of America.

Writings (selection )

• The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity. ( o.J. )