What is your list of the top 10 evolutionary biologists in history? I’m asking because this came up in a discussion with a friend. Obviously the composition of the list will have to do with disciplinary bias and geography and history (there are Russian population geneticists from the 20th century who should be more famous who aren’t).
Here are my top 10 (with two minutes thought given):
1. Charles Darwin & Alfred Russell Wallace (I’m combining these two)
2. R. A. Fisher
3. Sewall Wright
4. J. B. S. Haldane
5. W. D. Hamilton
6. G. G. Simpson
7. John Maynard Smith
8. August Weismann
9. Motoo Kimura
10. Theodosius Dobzhansky
What’s your list? (in the comments)
I’d like Robert Trivers in there…but I don’t want to bump any of the others.
Richard D. Alexander — because of his unsparing synoptic application of the modern synthesis to ourselves.
yep.
Stephen J Gould…….Not
Ernst Mayr
Darwin
Fisher
Hamilton
Kimura
Lande
Wright
Price
Waddington
Haldane
Simpson
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Long-list:
Dobzhansky
Trivers
Grafen
(Steve) Frank
E.O. Wilson