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Jane Marion Oppenheimer (1911-1966)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Jane Marion Oppenheimer, embryologist and historian of science and medicine, was born on 19 September 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Sylvia…
PeopleBiographyEvolutionhistory
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927)
By: B. R. Erick Peirson
| Published: Nov 16, 2012
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen studied plants and helped found the field of genetics, contributing methods and concepts to the study of heredity around the…
GeneticsHeredityPhenotypeGenotype-environment interactionEvolution
Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868-1946)
By: Joe Brinkman
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
Edwin Stephen Goodrich studied the structures of animals in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Goodrich studied how animals…
ZoologyHomology (Biology)InvertebratesEvolution
Victor Jollos (1887-1941)
By: B. R. Erick Peirson
| Published: Sep 16, 2014
Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s.…
ParameciumDrosophilaHeredityProtistaprotozoology
Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 02, 2010
Gavin de Beer was an English zoologist known for his contributions to evolution and embryology, in particular for showing the inadequacy of the germ…
PeopleBiographyEvolutionZoology
Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of…
BiographyEvolution
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897)
By: Karla T. Moeller
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Edward Drinker Cope studied fossils and anatomy in the US in the late nineteenth century. Based on his observations of skeletal morphology, Cope…
PeopleBiographyAnatomyEvolution
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921)
By: Jonathan LaTourelle
| Published: Jun 01, 2015
Petr Kropotkin proposed the theory of Pleistocene ice age, alternative theories of evolution based on embryology, and he advocated anarchist and…
EvolutionHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersPaleogeography--PleistoceneAnarchism
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris…
AnatomyAnatomy, ComparativeNatural historyExtinction (Biology)Zoology
Berthold Karl Hölldobler (1936– )
By: Kelle Dhein
| Published: May 04, 2017
Berthold Karl Hölldobler studied social insects like ants in Europe and the US during the twentieth and early twenty-first century. He focused on the…
AntsCarpenter antsZoologyEvolutionPulitzer Prizes