Mark Kirkpatrick

Mark Kirkpatrick
Born
Mark A. Kirkpatrick
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisorMontgomery Slatkin
Other academic advisorsJoe Felsenstein
Websitehttps://kirkpatricklab.org/

Mark A. Kirkpatrick is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He currently holds the T. S. Painter Centennial Professorship in Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research touches on a wide variety of topics, including the evolution of sex chromosomes, sexual selection, and speciation. Kirkpatrick is the co-author, along with Douglas J. Futuyma, of a popular undergraduate evolution textbook. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.