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Jan Sapp
Birth Name:Jan Anthony Sapp
Birth Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Field:Biology, history
Work Institutions:York University

Jan Anthony Sapp (born June 12, 1954) is a professor in the Department of Biology, York University, Canada. His writings focus especially on evolutionary biology beyond the classical neo-Darwinian framework, and emphasize the fundamental importance of symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer in heredity and evolution.

Career

Sapp was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He completed his BSc hons (Biology) at Dalhousie University in 1976 before earning his MSc and Phd at the Institut d’histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences, at l'Université de Montréal in 1984. He subsequently held an appointment at the University of Melbourne for eight years, where he also served as chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He was Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Rockefeller University, 1991–92. He held the Canada Research Chair (tier 1) in the History of the Biological Sciences at l’Université du Québec à Montréal from 2001 to 2003 before returning to York University where he has been a professor since 1992.

Sapp's book Evolution by Association (1994) is the first book to document the history of symbiosis in depth. It was described in a review as a "fine piece of scholarship".[1] He subsequently introduced the terms "symbiome" and "symbiomics" to biology in his book Genesis: The Evolution of Biology (2003). He developed this line of historical research beyond classical neoDarwinian biology further in his book on the history of microbial phylogenetics, The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life (2009). He is also known for his writing on the coral reef crisis, focusing in detail on the outbreaks of crown of thorns starfish and coral bleaching. Coexistence: The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biology (2016) focuses on the history of tropical biology, and on what he calls the "central enigma" in tropical ecology.

In 2021, Sapp published Genes, Germs and Medicine, an exploration of the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of Joshua Lederberg, an influential scientist. Lederberg his collaborators founded the field of bacterial genetics, and age 33, was the second youngest person in history to win the Nobel Prize. He helped to lay the foundations for genetic engineering, made fundamental revisions to immunological and evolutionary theory, and developed medical genetics.[2]

Bibliography

  1. Book: Sapp, Jan. World Scientific. 9789811235986. Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg. Singapore. 2021.
  2. Book: Sapp , Jan . Oxford University Press. 978-0190632441. Coexistence: The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biodiversity. Oxford ; New York. 2016.
  3. Book: Sapp , Jan . Oxford University Press. 9780195388497. The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life. Oxford ; New York. 2009. [3]
  4. Book: Oxford University Press, USA. 978-0195168778. Jan Sapp (ed.). Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution: Concepts and Controversies. 2005.
  5. Book: Sapp , Jan . New York : Oxford University Press. 978-0195156195. Genesis: The Evolution of Biology. Oxford. 2003. registration.
  6. Book: Sapp , Jan . Oxford University Press. 9780195123647. What is Natural? : Coral Reef Crisis. New York. 1999.
  7. Book: Sapp , Jan . Oxford University Press. 9780195088212. Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis. New York. 1994. registration.
  8. Book: Sapp , Jan . Cambridge University Press. 978-0521365505. Where the Truth Lies: Franz Moewus and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Cambridge [England] ; New York. 1990.
  9. Book: Sapp , Jan . Oxford University Press. 978-0195042061. Beyond the Gene: Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics. New York. Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology. 1987.

Recent publications

  1. 10.1086/668166. Gilbert . S. F.. Sapp . J.. Jan Sapp. Tauber . A. I.. A symbiotic view of life: We have never been individuals. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 87. 4. 325–341. 2012. 23397797. 14279096 .
  2. Pace . N. R. . Norman R. Pace. Sapp . J. . Jan Sapp. Goldenfeld . N. . 10.1073/pnas.1109716109 . Classic Perspective: Phylogeny and beyond: Scientific, historical, and conceptual significance of the first tree of life . . 109 . 4 . 1011–1018 . 2012 . 22308526. 3268332. 2012PNAS..109.1011P . free .
  3. 100. 2. 164. Sapp. Jan. Race Finished. American Scientist. April 2012. 10.1511/2012.95.164.
  4. 10.1525/bio.2012.62.7.14 . Evolution Replayed . . 62 . 7 . 693–694 . 2012 . Sapp. Jan. free .
  5. Book: Sapp , Jan . 1. Chelsea Green Publishing. 9781603584463. 54–67. Dorion Sagan. Dorion Sagan. Lynn Margulis: the life and legacy of a scientific rebel. Too Fantastic for Polite Society. Vermont. 2012-10-22. Lynn Margulis.
  6. Book: Sapp, Jan. Springer Netherlands. 978-94-007-2941-4. 22. 743–755. Joseph Seckbach . Genesis - In The Beginning. Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Life. Dordrecht. 2012. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. 10.1007/978-94-007-2941-4_37 .
  7. Book: Sapp , Jan . MIT Press. 9780262015141. 271–283. Snait Gissis . Eva Jablonka . Eva Jablonka . Transformations of Lamarckism: from subtle fluids to molecular biology. Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World. Cambridge, Mass.. 2011. https://books.google.com/books?id=jAckqAQs3yUC&pg=PA271.
  8. Book: Springer Netherlands. 978-90-481-9449-0. 17. 3‒18. Joseph Seckbach . Martin Grube . Symbioses and Stress. On the Origin of Symbiosis. Dordrecht. 2010. Sapp . J. . 10.1007/978-90-481-9449-0_1 . Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology .
  9. Sapp . J. . Saltational symbiosis . 10.1007/s12064-010-0089-5 . . 129 . 2–3 . 125–133 . 2010 . 20535601. 10013954 .

External links

Notes and References

  1. Haygood, Margo. (1995). The Symbiotic Perspective. Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis by Jan Sapp. Science. New Series, Vol. 268, No. 5214. pp. 1209-1212.
  2. Book: Sapp . Jan . Genes, Germs and Medicine:The Life of Joshua Lederberg . World Scientific . 18 March 2021 . en . 10.1142/11971 . March 2021. 978-981-12-2547-5 . 224999418 .
  3. Byrnes, W. Malcolm. Review: The New Foundations of Evolution by Jan Sapp. American Scientist. January–February 2010.

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