- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. - Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely-read writers of popular science of his generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate". Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. - Pz Myers
Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers (born March 9 1957) is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris and a science blogger via his blog, "Pharyngula" (previously "Pharyngula.org"). He is currently an associate professor of biology at Morris, works in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and has a particular interest in cephalopods. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany - February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.), was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, … - E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), and naturalist (conservationism). Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his scientific humanist ideas concerned with religious, moral, and ethical matters. - Olivia Judson
Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. Under the pseudonym "Dr Tatiana" she wrote a light-hearted best-selling guidebook to sex throughout the natural kingdom, entitled "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation". She was a pupil of W.D. Hamilton. She graduated from Stanford University, gained a doctorate from Oxford, and worked for some time as a journalist, before becoming a research fellow at Imperial College London. - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian - Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia) and emigrated to the United States in 1927. - John Maynard Smith
Professor John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 - 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he then took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signaling theory. - Massimo Pigliucci
As professor of ecology and evolution, he does research and teaching at SUNY-Stony Brook when he is not pursuing his interests in philosophy of science at the same institution. - Sloan Wilson
Sloan Wilson was an American author. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he graduated from Harvard University in 1942. He fought in World War II, serving in the United States Coast Guard, commanding a trawler on the Greenland patrol and an army supply ship in the Pacific Ocean. After the war, Wilson worked as a reporter for Time-Life. His first book, "Voyage to Somewhere", was published in 1947 and drew on his wartime experiences. - David Sloan Wilson
David Sloan Wilson (1949-) is an American evolutionary biologist. Son of the author Sloan Wilson, David Sloan Wilson is a distinguished professor at Binghamton University. He is a prominent proponent of the concept of group selection in evolution. He has, along with Elliott Sober in their book "Unto Others" proposed a framework called multilevel selection theory, which incorporates the more orthodox approach of gene-level selection and individual selection. - 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 using techniques from molecular biology such as gel electrophoresis to apply to questions of genetic variation and evolution. In a pair of 1966 papers co-authored with J.L. Hubby in the journal "Genetics", … - Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He did extensive fieldwork first in the Amazon River basin, and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace line dividing the fauna of Australia from that of Asia. - Niles Eldredge
Dr. Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. - Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement. He has written a book on the subject entitled "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution", in which he furthers the argument that a belief in God and evolution are not mutually exclusive. - Robert Trivers
Robert L. Trivers, (born 19 February 1943, pronounced as) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974). Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception (first described in 1976) and intragenomic conflict. - Richard Lenski
Richard E. Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. He holds the office Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial ecology at Michigan State University. In 1996 Lenski won a MacArthur Fellowship (a so-called "genius award"). In 2006, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences Lenski is best known for his long-term "E. coli" evolution experiment, and his work with digital organisms, using Avida. - T. Ryan Gregory
Dr. T. Ryan Gregory (b. May 16 1975) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Gregory completed his B.Sc. (Hons) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1997 and his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and zoology at the University of Guelph in 2002. - Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist. Ernst Haeckel named thousands of new species (see below), mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including "phylum", "phylogeny", "ecology" and the kingdom "Protista" (details below). - Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was already eminent as an English naturalist when he proposed and provided scientific evidence to show that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, … - Henry Gee
Henry Gee (b. 1962 in London, England) is a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a senior editor of "Nature," the scientific journal. Henry Gee's books include "In Search of Deep Time," "A Field Guide to Dinosaurs" with illustrations by Luis Rey, "Jacob's Ladder," and "The Science of Middle-Earth." Gee's other writings include two works of open source fiction, "The Sigil" and "By The Sea." - Sewall Wright
Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory. Along with R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. Evolutionary biologists argue as to whether Fisher or Wright made the greater contribution. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of methods of computing it in pedigrees. - W. D. Hamilton
William Donald Hamilton, F.R.S. (1 August 1936 - 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, considered one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. From 1984 to his death in 2000, he was the Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University. Hamilton became famous for his theoretical work expounding a rigorous genetic basis for the existence of kin selection. This insight was a key part of the development of a gene-centric view of evolution, … - H. Allen Orr
Dr. Orr is an evolutionary geneticist with several broad interests. Most of his research focuses on the genetics of speciation and the genetics of adaptation. In particular, he is interested in the genetic basis of hybrid sterility and inviability, e.g., how many genes cause reproductive isolation between species? What are the normal functions of these genes and what evolutionary forces drove their divergence? - Graham Bell
Graham Bell is a contemporary evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of sexual reproduction and the maintenance of variation. Bell is presently at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He developed the "Tangled Bank" theory of evolutionary genetics after observing the asexual and sexual behavior patterns of Aphids as well as monogonont rotifers. - J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (November 5, 1892 - December 1, 1964), who normally used "J.B.S." as a first name, was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics. - George C. Williams
Professor George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. In his first book, "Adaptation and Natural Selection", he argued that adaptation was an "onerous" concept that should only be invoked when necessary, and, that, when it is necessary, … - Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. He was described by Anders Hald as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and Richard Dawkins described him as "the greatest of Darwin's successors". - Elisabet Sahtouris
Elisabet Sahtouris is a Greek-American evolutionary biologist, futurist, business consultant, event organizer and UN consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a popular lecturer, television and radio personality, author of "EarthDance", "Biology Revisioned" co-authored with Willis Harman and "A Walk Through Time: From Stardust To Us". She has been invited to China by the Chinese National Science Association, organized Earth Celebration 2000 in Athens, … - Allan Wilson
Allan Wilson (1934-1991) was a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies. He was one of the most controversial figures in post-war biology; his work attracted a great deal of attention both from within, and outside, the academic world. Allan Wilson was born in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand, and raised on a farm at Helvetia, Pukekohe. He attended King's College in Auckland and excelled in maths and chemistry. - Sean B. Carroll
Sean B. Carroll is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context of biological development, using "Drosophila" as a model system. He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. - David Haig
David Haig, is an Australian evolutionary biologist and geneticist, professor in Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent-offspring conflict, and wrote the book Genomic Imprinting and Kinship. - Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology. Cosmides originally studied biology at Harvard University, receiving her A.B. in 1979. While an undergraduate she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers who was her advisor. - Douglas J. Futuyma
Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 1942, New York City) is an American biologist. Futuyma graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University, and took his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves. He was Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, … - Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch is Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics. - Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura, (November 13, 1924 - November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticist. In genetics, he is famous for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation and time to fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles. - David Seaborg
David Seaborg (born 1949) is an evolutionary biologist; as well as a peace activist, and a leader in the environmental movement. He serves as director of the World Rainforest Fund, the Seaborg Open Space Fund, and the Greater Lafayette Open Space Fund (a conservancy raising money to purchase open space in the Lamorinda region). Seaborg is the son of Helen L. Seaborg and Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg (who discovered plutonium among many other accomplishments). - Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar (born 1947) is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, specialising in primate behaviour. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number. Professor Dunbar is a director of the British Academy Centenary Research Project (BACRP) "Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain" and is due to leave the University of Liverpool to take up the post of Director of the Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, … - August Weismann
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann was a German biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann advocated the germ plasm theory, that (in a multicellular organism) inheritance only takes place by means of the germ cells—the gametes such as egg cells and sperm cells. Other cells of the body—somatic cells—do not function as agents of heredity.
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