Author

Books by Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne is an evolutionary geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he spent his career studying speciation and evolutionary genetics. He is the author of Speciation (with H. Allen Orr), a technical textbook on the evolutionary mechanisms of species formation, and Why Evolution Is True, written for a general audience. Coyne also maintained a long-running blog, Why Evolution Is True, before retiring it. He received his PhD from Harvard under Richard Lewontin and is widely respected in evolutionary biology for both his research and his science communication.