Education
University of Oxford. Princeton University. Street John"s College.
historian of science evolutionary biologist
University of Oxford. Princeton University. Street John"s College.
He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and is currently a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection (ie adaptive evolution) at the molecular level in natural populations. In addition to technical articles, he has published in the London Review of Books, Slate, and elsewhere.
He has published two books: Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology, 2003, with a foreword written by Stephen Jay Gould, and deoxyribonucleic acid: The Secret of Life with James Doctorate. Watson, 2003.
In addition to lecturing at Harvard, he also leads a Harvard Summer Study Abroad program at Queen"s College, Oxford on the history of evolutionary biology and on current ideas in the field He teaches evolutionary biology regularly at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey, and is accordingly targeted by Turkish creationist organizations.
Berry has worked on the script development for several major television shows: Race, the Power of an Illusion in 2003 by Public Broadcasting Service, the 5-part Channel 4 deoxyribonucleic acid, and NOVA"s Lord of the Ants. In 2013, along with George Beccaloni, curator with a special interest in Orthopteroidea and the Alfred Russell Wallace collections at the Natural History Museum, London, Berry narrated a short animated film for The New York Times to celebrate the Alfred Russel Wallace′s centenary.
Andrew Berry was born in 1963 in London.
His father is biologist R. J. Berry. He attended Shrewsbury School, has a degree in Zoology from Street John"s College, University of Oxford, and did his Doctor of Philosophy under Martin Kreitman in evolutionary genetics at Princeton University. At Harvard, he did post-doctoral work in Richard Lewontin"s laboratory