Mitchell Ryan Distin has a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Biodiversity from the Universität de Valencia in Spain with an international mention from the University of Cambridge, an M.Sc. in the History and Philosophy of Science from University College London, and a B.Sc. in Neuroscience from Michigan State University. His doctoral thesis, “Evolution in Space and Time: The Second Synthesis of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and the Philosophy of Biology”, won several awards and has since been turned into a free E-book available on ResearchGate. Mitch has spent the last decade traveling the world, immersing himself in different cultures, while concomitantly performing his scientific research on the origins and maintenance of biodiversity. His future plans include building Michigan’s first fully sustainable eco-resort with his wife Kasha, becoming more politically involved as an environmentalist and conservationist in the United States, and publishing his expository science/history book called “Disconnected from Nature: Modern Science Meets Indigenous Wisdom”.
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