Alan Templeton
Alan Templeton | |
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| Born | Alan Robert Templeton |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis University of Michigan |
| Known for | Quantifying human genetic diversity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human genetics |
| Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis, University of Haifa |
| Thesis | Statistical Models of Parthenogenesis (1972) |
Alan R. Templeton is an American geneticist and statistician at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is the Charles Rebstock emeritus professor of biology. From 2010 to 2019, he held positions in the Institute of Evolution and the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Haifa. He is known for his work demonstrating the degree of genetic diversity among humans and, in his opinion, the biological unreality of human races.