Professor
Michael John Donoghue
Yale University
Evolutionary biologist; Ecologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Evolution and Ecology
Elected
2008
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director, Peabody Museum of Natural History. In systematic botany, pioneered the use of rigorous phylogenetic methods, helped to make the phylogenetic perspective centrally important in evolutionary biology, and established the importance of systematics, phylogenetic knowledge and historical frameworks in analyses of adaptation, biography, community ecology, and other topics.
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