James A. Lake, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and of Human Genetics
Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1941
Place of Birth: Kearney, Nebraska, United States
Profession: biologist
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About James A. Lake
- James A.
- Lake (born August 10, 1941, Kearney, Nebraska) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and of Human Genetics at UCLA.
- Lake is best known for the New Animal Phylogeny and for the first three-dimensional structure of the ribosome.
- He has also made significant contributions to understanding genome evolution across all kingdoms of life, including discovering informational and operational genes, elucidating the complexity hypothesis for gene transfer, rooting the tree of life, and understanding the early transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic life.
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