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Rebecca L. Cann (born 1951) is a geneticist who made a scientific breakthrough on mitochondrial DNA variation and evolution in humans, popularly called Mitochondrial Eve.Her discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother who lived <200,000 years ago became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most widely accepted explanation of the origin of ...
Deborah Charlesworth FRS FRSE (née Maltby; born 1943) is a population geneticist from the UK, notable for her important discoveries in population genetics and evolutionary biology. [3] [4] Her most notable research is in understanding the evolution of recombination, sex chromosomes and mating system for plants. [3]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Evolutionary biologists. It includes evolutionary biologists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
She is interested in how reliable mitochondrial DNA is in studies of human evolution and phylogenetics. [19] [20] In 2002 Hagelberg joined the University of Oslo. [21] [22] Hagelberg investigates how definitions of biological race are used by evolutionary biologists. [23] Her work has been covered in The Guardian, The New York Times. [24] [25]
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Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.She is considered "a highly recognized pioneer in modernizing our understanding of the evolutionary basis of female behavior in both nonhuman and human primates". [2]
The book explores how women’s biology shaped human history and culture. [1] One claim in the book is that when it comes to biological and medical research and clinical drug trials women's bodies have long been overlooked because males have fewer "complicating" factors such as the estrous cycle. [2]
Joan Roughgarden (born 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist.She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon.