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'''Richard Lenski''' is a professor of microbial [[ecology]] at Michigan State [[University]].  He holds a [[doctorate]] from the [[University of North Carolina]] and a B.A. from Oberlin College, but does not disclose his fields for those degrees on his own biographical sketch.<ref>https://www.msu.edu/~lenski/</ref>  When Lenski started graduate school at UNC in 1977, his father, professor Gerhard Lenski, was the Chair of the Division of Social Sciences at the same school. <ref>http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/lenski.htm</ref>
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'''Richard Lenski''' is a professor of microbial [[ecology]] at Michigan State [[University]].<ref>Richard Lenski Biographical Sketch [http://myxo.css.msu.edu/BioSketch.html]</ref> He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a [[doctorate]] in zoology <ref>Purpose in Evolution symposium Participants [http://www.templeton.org/humble_approach_initiative/Purpose_in_Evolution/part6.html]</ref> from the [[University of North Carolina]].<ref>[https://www.msu.edu/~lenski/]</ref>  When Lenski started graduate school at UNC in 1977, his father, professor Gerhard Lenski, was the Chair of the Division of Social Sciences at the same school. <ref>[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/lenski.htm]</ref>
    
Richard Lenski is best known for his 20 year old E. coli experiment in which he claims to have captured evolution in progress, saying that bacteria made minor changes in the long-term laboratory study, insisting that it was not due to contamination.   
 
Richard Lenski is best known for his 20 year old E. coli experiment in which he claims to have captured evolution in progress, saying that bacteria made minor changes in the long-term laboratory study, insisting that it was not due to contamination.   
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