Quotes/Biographies
Francisco Ayala
PhD Prof, Evolutionary Biology
First Appearance - The Visitors
Opening Quote;
“Bilateral symmetry evolved relatively early in the evolution of animals several hundred millions of years ago.”
Bilateral Symmetry
The Last Quote;
Biography;
Professor of biological sciences and philosophy, director of the Bren Fellows Program, University of California at Irvine; Chairman, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Member, President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology.
Francisco Ayala has an undergraduate degree in physics. His interest in evolutionary genetics began while he was in Spain working on philosophy.
He came to study evolutionary biology at Columbia University, New York, under Theodosius Bobzhansky in the early 1960s. Since then, his research has included the processes by which new species come about and understanding how much-and why-genetic diversity occurs in a population.
Specifically, Ayala's research focuses on molecular evolutionary clocks and uses DNA changes. Through these changes, he reconstructs the processes of evolution and their relationships among species. He then can draw conclusions about the common ancestors of species...
“Human genomes are the ones that are transmitted from parents to children. Each human genome that is the one that we get from our Father or the one that we get from our Mother. Each genome has three billion letters, billion components. Everybody thought that we would open lots of possibilities to study the humanity, perhaps for medicine and other applications.”
Human Genome
Biography;
Professor of biological sciences and philosophy, director of the Bren Fellows Program, University of California at Irvine; Chairman, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Member, President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology.
Francisco Ayala has an undergraduate degree in physics. His interest in evolutionary genetics began while he was in Spain working on philosophy.
He came to study evolutionary biology at Columbia University, New York, under Theodosius Bobzhansky in the early 1960s. Since then, his research has included the processes by which new species come about and understanding how much-and why-genetic diversity occurs in a population.
Specifically, Ayala's research focuses on molecular evolutionary clocks and uses DNA changes. Through these changes, he reconstructs the processes of evolution and their relationships among species. He then can draw conclusions about the common ancestors of species...
source - thescientist.com/articles.view/articleNo/17772/title/Francisco-J--Ayala/
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