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5 unusual facts about Alexey Kondrashov


Alexey Kondrashov

His father was the famous Soviet and Russian biophysicist, Simon Shnoll.

The paper attracted a lot of public attention and Kondrashov was interviewed by The New York Times,The Los Angeles Times, The Economist and several television networks.

He founded the laboratory of evolutionary genomics in the College of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Evolution of sexual reproduction

This hypothesis was proposed by Alexey Kondrashov, and is sometimes known as the deterministic mutation hypothesis.

Several explanations have been suggested by biologists including W. D. Hamilton, Alexey Kondrashov, George C. Williams, Harris Bernstein, Carol Bernstein, Michael M. Cox, Frederic A. Hopf and Richard E. Michod to explain how sexual reproduction is maintained in a vast array of different living organisms.



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