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Michael J. Donoghue
Michael J. Donoghue (born 1952) is an American evolutionary biologist and plant systematist, a Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale known for applying phylogenetic trees to morphology and biogeography.
Michael W. Gray
Michael W. Gray (1943–2026) was a Canadian biochemist at Dalhousie University known for work on mitochondrial evolution and the discovery of RNA editing in plant mitochondria.
Morris Goodman (molecular evolutionist)
Morris Goodman (1925–2010) was an American molecular evolutionist and founder of molecular anthropology at Wayne State University, who showed humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas are closest relatives.
Nancy A. Moran
Nancy A. Moran, born 1954, is an American evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for research on genome evolution in insect bacterial symbionts and bee gut microbes.
Norihiro Okada
Norihiro Okada (岡田 典弘) is a Japanese molecular biologist who pioneered the SINE method, using retroposon insertions as markers to establish that whales nest within even-toed ungulates and to study cichlid radiation.
Pamela S. Soltis
Pamela S. Soltis is an American plant evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, known for angiosperm phylogenetics and polyploid speciation research.
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling is a Canadian evolutionary microbiologist and professor at the University of British Columbia who studies protists and identified Provora, a new supergroup of microbial predators.
Peter Schuster (Austrian chemist)
Peter Schuster (1941–2026) was an Austrian theoretical chemist who, with Manfred Eigen, developed the quasispecies and hypercycle models and the ViennaRNA package, and pioneered RNA sequence–structure maps.
Sudhir Kumar
Sudhir Kumar is an American computational evolutionary biologist, founding director of Temple University's Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, best known for the MEGA software and TimeTree database.
Susana Magallón
Susana Magallón is a Mexican evolutionary biologist who studies the origin and diversification of flowering plants, directs UNAM's Institute of Biology, and joined the US National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
T. Martin Embley
T. Martin Embley is an evolutionary molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University whose work on mitochondrial evolution and eukaryotic origins reshaped the tree of life.
Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko (טל פופקו) is an Israeli computational evolutionary biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University, known for building widely used bioinformatics web servers such as Rate4Site and GUIDANCE2.
Thomas Cavalier‐Smith
Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942–2021) was a British biologist who proposed new branches of the tree of life, defined the kingdom Chromista in 1981, and held the evolutionary biology chair at Oxford.
Thomas H. Jukes
Thomas H. Jukes (1906–1999) was an English-born biochemist and molecular evolutionist who worked at Lederle Laboratories and UC Berkeley, coauthored the 1969 "Non-Darwinian Evolution" paper, and helped develop methotrexate.
Viviane Slon
Viviane Slon is a French-born, Israel-raised paleogeneticist at Tel Aviv University, first author of the 2018 Nature paper describing Denisova 11, a girl with a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Walter M. Fitch
Walter M. Fitch (1929–2011) was an American molecular biologist regarded as the founder of molecular phylogenetics, whose 1967 Science paper first built evolutionary trees from protein sequences.
Warren H. Wagner
Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000) was an American botanist at the University of Michigan who studied fern evolution and devised the Wagner tree method of phylogenetic analysis.
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li, born 1942 in Taiwan, is a Taiwanese-American molecular evolutionist at Academia Sinica who showed the molecular clock varies with generation time and won the 2003 Balzan Prize.
Wesley M. Brown
Wesley M. Brown is an American molecular biologist and University of Michigan professor emeritus known for work on animal mitochondrial DNA evolution and metazoan phylogeny.
William Martin (evolutionary biologist)
William F. Martin is a German scientist researching early evolution and the origin of life at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, known for the 1998 hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote.
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang (杨子恒) is a computational biologist and statistical geneticist at University College London, known for the PAML and BPP software for analyzing DNA sequences.