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A. W. F. Edwards

Anthony William Fairbank Edwards (born 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called Fisher's Edwards in the context of 20th century genetics.

Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans

According to TIGR evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, "C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen." The microbe owes this to the fact that it has at least five different forms of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex is a 2002 popular science book by the British evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson written in the role of her alter ego, agony aunt Dr Tatiana.

Race, Evolution, and Behavior

Evolutionary Biologist Joseph L. Graves (2002) notes that the theory had long lacked support and had been invalidated before Rushton's book was written.

Russell Lande

Russell Scott Lande (born 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London, in Silwood Park.


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Alan Wilson

Allan Wilson (1934–1991), New Zealand evolutionary biologist and molecular anthropologist

Analogy of the Cave

Evolutionary biologist Jeremy Griffith's best-selling book "A Species In Denial" includes the chapter Deciphering Plato’s Cave Analogy.

Atelopus coynei

It was named after evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who collected the holotype in a swamp on a frogging trip to western Ecuador as a student in the late 1970s.

Bocher

Tyge W. Böcher (1909–1983), Danish botanist, evolutionary biologist, plant ecologist and phytogeographer

Darwin on Trial

Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould's review of the book stated that it contained "no weighing of evidence, no careful reading of literature on all sides, no full citation of sources (the book does not even contain a bibliography) and occasional use of scientific literature only to score rhetorical points".

Darwin's Cathedral

The Journal of the American Academy of Religion called it "a welcome book because it unsettles everybody, evolutionary biologist and religious believer alike".

Dawkinsia singhala

The Dawkinsia genus is named after evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

Ewald

Paul W. Ewald, the evolutionary biologist specializing in the evolution of infectious disease

Gene-centered view of evolution

Prominent opponents of this gene-centric view of evolution include evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, biologist and anthropologist David Sloan Wilson, and philosopher Elliott Sober.

Go God Go

In response, the school administrator's hire outspoken evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as an assistant teacher to help Mrs. Garrison present the evolution lesson.

With religion often forming the subject matter of South Park, this two-parter satirizes atheism, as well as evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, whose bestselling book The God Delusion was published in the months before the episode's broadcast.

Homo habilis

Evolutionary biologist Jeremy Griffith has drawn parallels between H. habilis and the psychological developmental evolution of modern humans as a manifestation of Ernst Haeckel's theory of ontogeny being a summarised recapitulation of phylogeny, suggesting elements of the phenotype of H. habilis relate to early adolescence (12-13 years of age) in modern humans.

Human genetic clustering

In 2003, British statistician and evolutionary biologist A. W. F. Edwards faulted Lewontin’s statement for basing his conclusions on simple comparison of genes and rather on a more complex structure of gene frequencies.

James Gould

James L. Gould (born 1945), American ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer

Michael Murphy Andregg

Andregg earned a Ph.D. in behavior genetics (1977) from the University of California, Davis after completing a triple-major B.S. in genetics, zoology and physical anthropology (1973), studying under the tutelage of Theodosius Dobzhansky a prominent geneticist, evolutionary biologist and National Medal of Science recipient.

Pickover stalk

At the same time he coined "biomorph" for these patterns, the famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the word to refer to his own set of biological shapes that were arrived at by a very different procedure.

Poinar

Hendrik Poinar (born 1969), a American evolutionary biologist specializing in ancient DNA, son of George

Positive psychology

This perspective is presented formally and in detail by the evolutionary biologist Bjørn Grinde in his book Darwinian Happiness.

Ron Fisher

Ronald Fisher, English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist

Semon

Richard Semon (1859–1918), German zoologist and evolutionary biologist

Steve Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science

Systematics and the Origin of Species

Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr that was first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press.

Thomas Gilbert

Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert (born 1977), also known as Tom Gilbert, British evolutionary biologist

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1988) is a book by Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr.

Ulrich Kutschera

According to Ronald Numbers, Ulrich Kutschera, a prominent European evolutionary biologist, concluded in 2003 "that anti-evolutionism in German-speaking countries has already infiltrated some academic circles".

Üner

Uner Tan syndrome, syndrome proposed by the Turkish evolutionary biologist Üner Tan

Üner Tan, Turkish neuroscientist and evolutionary biologist