Sean Carroll

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Summary

Sean B Carroll (1960 - ) is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context of biological development, using Drosophila as a model system. He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He is the author of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution in which he argues for the irrefutable existence of natural selection by detailing numerous examples of DNA which has recently been traced from current species to long extinct ones.

Carroll is at the forefront of a field known as Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

His work on gene expression was influential in the development of the Cellular Psyche (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).

Ideas

• Evolutionary Developmental Biology - A field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals and plants in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship between organisms and how developmental processes evolved.
• It addresses the origin and evolution of embryonic development; how modifications of development and developmental processes lead to the production of novel features; and how ecology impacts in development and evolutionary change.
• See Evolution of Evolutionary Theory for more detail.