Important Evolutionary Biologists
Main category: Evolutionary biologistsMany biologists have contributed to our current understanding of evolution. The establishment of evolutionary biology as a professional scientific discipline only started with the development of population genetics and the formulation of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Theodosius Dobzhansky and E. B. Ford were particularly important in the establishment of an empirical research programme for evolutionary biology. Ernst Mayr, George Gaylord Simpson and G. Ledyard Stebbins were also important discipline-builders during the modern synthesis, in the fields of systematics, paleontology and botany, respectively. Through training many future evolutionary biologists, James Crow, Richard Lewontin, Dan Hartl, Marcus Feldman and Brian Charlesworth have also made large contributions to building the discipline of evolutionary biology.
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