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Richard D. Alexander (1929–2018), American evolutionary biologist whose scientific pursuits integrated systematics, ecology, evolution, natural history and behaviour Salim Ali (1896–1987), Indian ornithologist who conducted systematic bird surveys across India
Susumu Ohno (1928–2000), Japanese-US biologist, evolutionary cytogenetics and molecular evolution; Tomoko Ohta (born 1933), Japanese scientist in molecular evolution, the nearly neutral theory of evolution; Clarence Paul Oliver (1898–1991), US geneticist, switched from Drosophila to human genetics
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]
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Geneticist and evolutionary biologist stubs (108 P) Pages in category "Evolutionary biologists" The following 184 pages are in this category, out of 184 total.
Cave paintings (such as this one from France) represent a benchmark in the evolutionary history of human cognition. Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin was the first to propose the out-of-Africa hypothesis for the peopling of the world, [39] but the story of prehistoric human migration is now understood to be much more complex thanks to twenty-first-century advances in genomic sequencing.
The paleoanthropologist Trenton Holliday states that "Darwin is rightly considered to be the preeminent evolutionary scientist of all time". [ 223 ] By around 1880, most scientists were convinced of evolution as descent with modification, though few agreed with Darwin that natural selection "has been the main but not the exclusive means of ...
William Paley's 1802 book Natural Theology with its famous watchmaker analogy had been written at least in part as a response to the transmutational ideas of Erasmus Darwin. [78] Geologists influenced by natural theology, such as Buckland and Sedgwick, made a regular practice of attacking the evolutionary ideas of Lamarck, Grant, and Vestiges.