Lee Altenberg
Lee Altenberg | |
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| Born | Lee Altenberg |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biological sciences |
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Konrad Lorenz Institute Duke University Ronin Institute |
| Thesis | A Generalization of Theory on the Evolution of Modifier Genes (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcus W. Feldman |
| Other academic advisors | Glenys Thomson |
| Website | dynamics |
Lee Altenberg is an American theoretical biologist. He is on the faculty of the Departments of Information and Computer Sciences and of Mathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He is best known for his work that helped establish the evolution of evolvability and modularity in the genotype–phenotype map as areas of investigation in evolutionary biology, for moving theoretical concepts between the fields of evolutionary biology and evolutionary computation, and for his mathematical unification and generalization of modifier gene models for the evolution of biological information transmission, putting under a single mathematical framework the evolution of mutation rates, recombination rates, sexual reproduction rates, and dispersal rates.
Altenberg is an associate editor of the journal BioSystems, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and Artificial Life, and on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems.
He is the son of actress Elizabeth Lee.