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Period: Jun 23, 1400 to
Biology Scientists 5.01
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Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley was born in Britain on May 4, 1825 and died on June 29, 1895.
Thomas Huxley debated about evolution in an attempt to make evolution more widely accepted.
He was a key person in the famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce and it wouldn't
have been won without him. -
Ronald Fisher
Ronald Fisher was born in Britain on February 17 1890 and died on July 29 1962.
He was one of the major chiefs for the neo-darwinism synthesis. He also made many important
contributions like the analysis of variance or being the founder of population genetics. -
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Mayr was born on July 5, 1904 and died on February 3, 2005. He was born in Germany.
He contriputed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis
of Mendelian genetics. He also contributed to the biological species concept. -
Stephen Gould
Stephen Gould was born on September 10, 1941 in the U.S. and died on May 20, 2002.
He contributed his theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972 to the evolutionary theory.
The theory proposes that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary
stability, which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution.