Keith A. Crandall

KEITH A. CRANDALL is the Thomas L. Martin Professor of Biology with a joint appointment in the Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University. He earned his Ph.D. in Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology and an MA in Statistics at Washington University. His research focuses on population dynamics and evolution of infectious diseases, the development, testing and implementation of bioinformatics approaches to nucleotide sequence data analysis, and the systematics of crustaceans. He is in his eighth year at BYU with continuous funding from the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other private foundations. He has published nearly 100 papers in scientific journals. Dr. Crandall is married to Cynthia Christie Crandall, and they have four wonderful children.

The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 4

A culture’s level of scientific understanding significantly influences how its religious texts are interpreted. The interplay between scientific discovery and scriptural understanding has been controversial throughout history. For example, the Catholic church’s response to scholars…