Leigh Van Valen
American evolutionary biologist
Leigh Van Valen was an American evolutionary biologist. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Wikipedia
Born: August 12, 1935, Albany, NY
Died: October 16, 2010 (age 75 years), Chicago, IL
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Oct 30, 2010 · Dr. Van Valen, who died in Chicago on Oct. 16 at the age of 76, changed the conversation about how life works in 1973 when he put forward “a new ...
Leigh Van Valen (1935-2010) was a highly accomplished evolutionary biologist whose interests spanned ecology, evolution, mathematics and philosophy.
Oct 20, 2010 · He was one of the earliest modern advocates for the importance of development in evolution, as captured in his much-quoted aphorism: "Evolution ...
Evolutionary biology lost a unique, broad, creative, and influential thinker when Leigh Van Valen1 passed away on October 16, 2010 in Chicago at the age of ...
Jan 24, 2022 · Leigh Van Valen was an American evolutionary biologist who made major contributions to evolutionary theory. He is particularly remembered ...
Van Valen's law provided the first complex systems theory of coevolutionary dynamics and inspired a whole range of theoretical and experimental developments ...
Motivated by observations of extinction rates in the fossil record, Leigh Van Valen (1973) came up with a high-level theory of evolution he called the Red Queen ...