Mikkel Heide Schierup

Mikkel Heide Schierup is an evolutionary geneticists developing models for comparative population genomics and applying them to whole genome sequences of humans and other primates. He has been analysing incomplete lineage sorting patterns among great apes species and what they can tell about the population genetics of ancestral species including the evolution of recombination landscapes and speciation processes. Current main interest is to decipher why the X chromosome is the target of very strong natural selection.