Professor
William B. Provine
(
–
)
1940
2015
Cornell University
;
Marathon, NY
Evolutionary biologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Evolution and Ecology
Elected
2006
Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences. Authority on the history of population genetics and the evolutionary synthesis. Advocate of communicating the evolutionary perspective to a wide audience of scientists, historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science. Recent publication (2005) is on evolutionary biology, free will, and moral responsibility. Currently writing a history of the theories of neutral molecular evolution.
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