My attempt to solicit a narrow and eminent list of evolutionary biologists for my planned attempt at rolling my own quizilla at some point in the future really got out of control. On the one hand, the discipline was too broadly construed. Biases creep in. On the other hand, the category was too narrow in that many scientists contributed to evolutionary biology without being evolutionary biologists (most trivally G.H. Hardy). Since many readers of this weblog are highly credentialized in some particular field, I invite all to:
1) State a category where you know your shit (e.g., "evolutionary developmental biology of three-toed sloths")
2) Your list of "top 10"
The intent is dual, first, just for fun, second, it might be a nice resource for me to explore some literature in territory I'm not that familiar with....
Update: Brown gaucho elaborates. Anyone who posts something that is not-spam in the comments will get linked too.... (if you don't have a credential, make one up). It's the blogosphere....
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Mammalian Sociobiology (or just sociobiology *shrug*), because I don't think there have been 10 theoretical contributors in the field of neotropical primates, period.
1. E.O. Wilson
2. W.D. Hamilton
3. R.L. Trivers (PISS + reciprocal altruism)
4. Maynard Smith
5. Amotz Zahavi
6. Emlen/Oring
7. Richard Wrangham
8. Ernst Mayr
9. Theodosius Dobzhanski
10. Garret Hardin
Explanations too long for a comment, up at the blog.
Seriously, I think this is the third or fourth post of mine in the past month you've inspired. Stop it. I'm trying to blog about my heartless conservatism and barbaric fascination with guns, here.
Posted by: IndianCowboy | May 19, 2006 12:51 AM
Evolutionary Chronobiology (more or less in chronological order):
Edwin Bunning
Gustav Kramer
Karl von Frisch
Colin Pittendrigh
Jurgen Aschoff
Patricia DeCoursey
John Enright
Michael Menaker
Carl Hirchie Johnson
Charalambos Kyriacou
Posted by: coturnix | May 19, 2006 4:26 AM
Arrrgh, Enright is Jim, not John. Too early in the morning...
I could have started with Darwin, though, as he was the first one to suggest that biological rhythms are endogenous and adaptive, both in his earthworm book and in the Power of Movement of Plants.
Posted by: coturnix | May 19, 2006 5:22 AM
Skeletal Evolution in Hexapodal Dragons
Not many people in this field I'm afraid. The three I could think of are...
Professor Sir Jonathan Wiltbreath (black dragon)
Doctor Harold Brewchugger PHD (green dragon physiology) (dwarf)
Emily Jones (Graduate student in abnormal dragon skeletal anatomy) (orc)
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | May 19, 2006 7:48 AM