- Armand Marie Leroi
Armand Leroi was born in
Wellington ,New Zealand on the16 July 1964 . A Dutch citizen, his youth was spent inNew Zealand ,South Africa andCanada . He was awarded a BSc. byDalhousie University , Halifax,Canada in 1989, and a Ph.D. by theUniversity of California, Irvine in 1993. This was followed by postdoctoral work at theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine ,New York using thenematode "Caenorhabditis elegans " as an experimental organism.In 2001, he was appointed lecturer at
Imperial College London . He has written one book entitled "Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body" for which he was awarded theGuardian First Book Award in 2004. In 2004 he adapted his book into a television documentary series for Britain'Channel 4 entitled "Human Mutants".Leroi has presented two other TV documentary series for Channel 4: "Alien Worlds" in 2005 and "What makes us Human" in 2006. Despite his TV appearances, Leroi expressed scepticism of the motivations of television creatives in an email exchange with director
Martin Durkin in which he said "left to their own devices, TV producers simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth". [http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/durkinemails.htm]In 2005, Leroi published an article in the New York Times entitled "A Family Tree in Every Gene", which argued for the usefulness of racial types in medical genetics.
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