Armand Marie Leroi
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| Born | 16 July 1964 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Fields | Evolutionary biology |
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| Thesis | The origin and evolution of life history trade-offs (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael R. Rose |
| Website | www3 |
Armand Marie Leroi (born 16 July 1964) is a New Zealand-born Dutch author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College in London. He received the Guardian First Book Award in 2004 for his book Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. He has presented scientific documentaries on Channel 4 such as Extraterrestrial (2005) and What Makes Us Human (2006), and BBC Four such as What Darwin Didn't Know (2009), Aristotle's Lagoon (2010), and Secret Science of Pop (2012).