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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.
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]
There was a renewal of structuralist themes in evolutionary biology in the work of biologists such as Brian Goodwin and Stuart Kauffman, [165] which incorporated ideas from cybernetics and systems theory, and emphasized the self-organizing processes of development as factors directing the course of evolution. The evolutionary biologist Stephen ...
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.
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
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]
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.