Jan Sapp is an historian of biology at York University in Toronto, Canada. His writings focus especially on evolutionary biology beyond the traditional neo-Darwinian framework, and emphasize the fundamental importance of symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer in heredity and evolution. He is author of many books including Beyond the Gene, Genesis the Evolution of Biology, and The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life. Sapp earned his doctorat at the Institut d’histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences, at L’Université de Montréal. He has taught at the University of Melbourne and l’Université du Québec à Montréal and was Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Rockefeller University. He has been a professor at York University since 1992.