David G. King, associate
professor emeritus
Department
of Zoology, College
of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences;
Department of Anatomy,
School of Medicine
B.S., Biological
Sciences, Purdue
University, 1970.
Ph.D., Neurosciences,
University of California San Diego,
1975.
Retired, Southern Illinois University, 2014.
Email: dgking@siu.edu
... But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
... Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back to home and bed.
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Bilbo Baggins' Walking Song
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Research history:
My publications have touched on topics in neurobiology, histology, fly anatomy, and evolutionary genetics. Special attention
has been given to individually-identifiable nerve cells and to the hypothesis that abundant genetic variation
at sites of tandem-repetitive DNA (which vastly outnumber protein-coding genes) might enable such sites to function as implicit
"evolutionary tuning knobs" for practically any trait. For additional detail, please see:
Annotated publication list [epilogue]