About the Author

Daniel L. Hartl is Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, a Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include molecular genetics, genomics, molecular evolution, and population genetics