b. 1964
Armand Marie Leroi is a contemporary evolutionary developmental biologist and science writer based at Imperial College London. He is known for his work on the genetics of morphology, human variation, and the philosophical implications of evolutionary biology, as well as his intellectual biography of Aristotle as a natural scientist.
Authored 'Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body' (2003), exploring morphological diversity through genetics
Authored 'The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science' (2014), reframing Aristotle as the founder of empirical biology
Contributed to debates on the scientific legitimacy of race as a biological category
Argued for the explanatory value of genetic association studies in understanding phenotypic conditions
Presented BBC documentaries bridging evolutionary biology and public philosophy of science