Episode 44: Arvid Ågren is an evolutionary biologist and author of The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution

J. Arvid Ågren is a Research Associate at the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and an Affiliated Researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. His works focuses on the evolution of within-organism conflicts, including selfish genetic elements and cancers. He also works on foundations of selfish gene theory and is the author of The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution (OUP 2021). He is the co-PI with Manus M. Patten of the Paradox of the Organism project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and an Associated Editor of Proceedings of the Royal Society B and BioScience. He studied evolutionary biology at the universities of Edinburgh and Toronto and was a postdoc at Cornell and Harvard. Website: https://arvidagren.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/arvidagren