Bruce Walsh

I'm a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (with a joint appointment in the College of Public Health, and adjunct appointments in Plant Sciences, Animal Sciences, and Molecular and Cellular Biology) at the University of Arizona.

I'm a biologist with a strong interest in genetics, evolution, mathematical modeling, and statistics. I'm also an amateur Lepidopterist, having described around two dozen new species of moths and have several species named after me. The moth on the cover of Walsh and Lynch is Lithophane leeae, a pink moth named after my wife, Lee, who drives a bright pink pickup (the rabbit is also hers). The logic behind the cover layout is that while the book is rather technical in a number of places, the mathematics and statistics all have direct bearing on discovering the processes that shape organismal form and function (hence the intermixing of equations and pictures of organisms).

Lynch and Walsh (1998), aka Volume 1, and Walsh and Lynch (2018), aka Volume 2, are the first two books in a planned trilogy reviewing the entire field of quantitative genetics and all its applications (plant and animal breeding, human genetics, evolution, ecological genetics, genomics, statistics, mathematical modeling). The final volume, 3, will cover multivariate aspects.