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David Penny (born 1939), New Zealand biologist known for theoretical biology, molecular evolution, human evolution, and the history of science; Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), French botanist [285] who studied the plants of Madagascar. George Perry (born 1771), English naturalist, author of Conchology, or the natural history of shells
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist stubs (108 P) Pages in category "Evolutionary biologists" The following 184 pages are in this category, out of 184 total.
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), British evolutionary biologist and population geneticist; Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German-born American evolutionary biologist; Phyllis McAlpine (1941–1998), Canadian human geneticist and gene mapper; Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005), US co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
Stephen Jay Gould (/ ɡ uː l d / GOOLD; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. [1]
Charles Robert Darwin (/ ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / [5] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [6] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Ernst Walter Mayr (/ ˈ m aɪər / MYRE, German: [ɛʁnst ˈmaɪɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) [1] [2] was a German-American evolutionary biologist.He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. [3]
In 1978 he published On Human Nature, which dealt with the role of biology in the evolution of human culture and won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [ 18 ] Wilson was named the Frank B. Baird Jr., Professor of Science in 1976 and, after his retirement from Harvard in 1996, he became the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus.
These are people who developed some kind of theory of evolution before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published their theory in 1858. They contributed some aspects of the theory without it being fully synthesised. Most of them came from Europe, mostly France and Britain.