Jerry Coyne

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Jerry Coyne at the University of Chicago, August 2006, with the "lab cat" Dusty.
Jerry Coyne introduces himself

Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949 ) is an American professor emeritus of biology specializing in speciation at the University of Chicago . In addition to his scientific work in the field of evolution , as a public intellectual he also advocates his philosophical positions, in particular naturalism , atheism and determinism .

In the chapter The NOMA Gambit of his book Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible , he criticizes the thesis that science and religion do not conflict (see Nonoverlapping Magisteria ).

Career

Coyne received his BS in Biology from the College of William & Mary in 1971 . He then worked at Rockefeller University under Theodosius Dobzhansky . He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1978 , where Richard Lewontin was his PhD supervisor; then he moved to the University of California, Davis , as a Fellow . Because most of his career Coyne spent at the University of Chicago . He retired from his professorship there in September 2015.

For the Society for the Study of Evolution , Coyne served as co-editor of its journal Evolution from 1985 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2000 ; In 1996 he became Vice President and 2011 President of the Society.

Awards

In 1989 he received the renowned Guggenheim Scholarship , was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, received the "Emperor Has No Clothes" award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation in 2011 and the Richard Dawkins Award in 2015 .

Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins, "An Appetite for Wonder - An Evening with Richard Dawkins," October 3, 2013, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Publications

Books

items

In addition to more than 100 specialist articles, u. a. in Nature and Science , Coyne regularly writes articles for the general public, for example in The New Republic , Slate , The New York Times Book Review and many more. His Op-Ed You can be good without God in USA Today from August 2, 2011 was published on September 23 Reprinted in 2011 in German with the title Die Wurzel des Guten in Tagesspiegel .

Internet

He runs the blog Why Evolution is True , which has over 70,000 subscribers (as of July 2020). Here he publishes scientific articles, for example anti-religious comments, but also writes about his hobbies cats, good food etc.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/cat-travel-week-home-again-lab-cats/
  2. ^ "You don't have free will" , lecture in Vancouver, June 2015
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / atheistallianceamerica.org
  4. ↑ Jerry A. Coyne: Speciation . Sinauer, 2004, ISBN 978-0-878-93089-0 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Jerry A. Coyne: Why Evolution is True. OUP Oxford, 2010, ISBN 978-0-191-64384-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ecol-evol/faculty/Coyne/pdf/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. List of the University of Chicago (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / pondside.uchicago.edu  
  7. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/die-wurzel-des-guten/4654438.html

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