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Our interdisciplinary connections give researchers a deeper appreciation of how organisms have evolved, compared with the long-held perspective that biodiversity is optimized simply by the limitless power of natural selection.

Center Director

Portrait of Michael Lynch

Michael Lynch

Center Director and Professor

School of Life Sciences

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Support the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution

Uncovering the mechanisms of evolution at the gene, genomic, cellular and phenotypic levels, with attention to the roles of mutation, random genetic drift and recombination.