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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin...

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  • Jan 8, 1823

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  • Nov 7, 1913 (age 90 years)

Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British biological theorist with a background in ethology. He is a popular science author focusing on evolution. Dawkins is one of Britain's best-known academics. He came to prominence...

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  • Mar 26, 1941 (age 68 years)

Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman (28 September 1939) is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher concerning the origin of life on Earth. He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as...

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  • Sep 28, 1939 (age 70 years)

Richard Lewontin

Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the notion of...

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  • Mar 29, 1929 (age 80 years)

Leo Buss

Leo W. Buss (born 1953) is a Professor in Yale University's departments of geology, geophysics, and ecology and evolutionary biology. He is also the author of the influential evolutionary developmental biology book The Evolution of Individuality ...

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  • 1953 (age 57 years)

Margie Profet

Margie Profet (born August 7, 1958) is an evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution in menstruation, allergies and morning sickness...

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  • Aug 7, 1958 (age 51 years)

Geerat J. Vermeij

Dr. Geerat J. Vermeij, born in the Netherlands, is a professor of geology at the University of California at Davis. Blind from the age of three, he graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in biology and geology from Yale...

Marc Hauser

Marc D. Hauser (25 October 1959) is an evolutionary biologist who teaches at the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He received a BS from Bucknell University and a PhD from UCLA. Currently, Hauser is a Harvard College Professor, and...

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  • Oct 25, 1959

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  • Oct 25, 1959

Nicole King

Nicole King is a MacArthur Fellow (2005) and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cell biology and integrative biology. King studies the evolution of multicellularity, and her work on choanoflagellates has...

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  • 1970 (age 40 years)

Michael Ghiselin

Michael T. Ghiselin is an American biologist, philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences. B.A., University of Utah (1960); Ph.D., Stanford University (1965); Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1964-65);...
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