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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 idea of evolution by natural selection was proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859, but evolutionary biology, as an academic discipline in its own right, emerged during the period of the modern synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s. [19] It was not until the 1980s that many universities had departments of evolutionary biology.
Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021 [3]) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he applied techniques from molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis, to questions of genetic variation and evolution.
Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer.He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) [3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and author, born in Africa. [4] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008.
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist stubs (108 P) Pages in category "Evolutionary biologists" The following 184 pages are in this category, out of 184 total.
Science 299:1523-1524 (concluding that evolutionary biology is not a religion in any sense but noting that several evolutionary biologists, such as Edward O. Wilson, in their roles as citizens concerned about getting the public to deal with reality, have made statements like "evolution is a myth that is now ready to take over Christianity").