James A. Lake
Male, Person
1941 –
Who is James A. Lake?
James A. Lake is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and of Human Genetics at UCLA. Lake is best known for the New Animal Phylogeny and for the first three-dimensional structure of the ribosome. He has also made significant contributions to understanding genome evolution across all kingdoms of life, including discovering informational and operational genes, elucidating the complexity hypothesis for gene transfer, rooting the tree of life, and understanding the early transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic life.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1941
Kearney - Also known as
- James Lake
- Education
- University of Colorado Boulder
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on July 23, 2013
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