Nathan Lents is Professor of Biology at John Jay College of the City University of New York. He investigates the evolutionary and genomic foundations of human uniqueness, with particular emphasis on de novo gene emergence, microRNA evolution, and the molecular roots of behavioral and physiological variation. Trained in biology, pharmacology, and physiological sciences at Saint Louis University, followed by postdoctoral research in cancer genomics at NYU Medical Center, Lents has published broadly across cell cycle regulation, cancer biology, forensic genetics, toxicology, and the pedagogy of evolutionary science. His current research examines how genomic rearrangements and lineage-specific regulatory elements contribute to the distinct trajectory of human evolution. Lents is the author of Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals (Columbia University Press), Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships (HarperCollins).
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