Ford Doolittle
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Born | W. Ford Doolittle February 21, 1942 Urbana, Illinois, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (BA 1963), Stanford University (PhD 1967), NSCAD University, Nova Scotia (BA in photography) |
Known for | Horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotic evolution |
Awards | National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cyanobacteria, chloroplasts |
Institutions | Dalhousie University |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Yanofsky |
W. Ford Doolittle
Doolittle has made significant contributions to the study of
As of 2007[update], he has been
In 1981, Doolittle received some level of notoriety for his article in The CoEvolution Quarterly entitled "Is Nature Really Motherly?". This was a sharp rebuttal of
Because of his philosophical musings on the non-existence of an all-encompassing
Doolittle is currently involved in a debate about the proper use of function (biology) within evolutionary biology sparked by controversy over the results of the ENCODE consortium stating that 80% of the genome is "functional".[6] He is a supporter of the concept of junk DNA.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.[7]
In addition to his contributions to evolutionary biology, Doolittle is an artist who studied at NSCAD University, achieving a BA in photography.
Awards and honors
- 2013 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- 2017 Killam Prize
Selected publications
- W. Ford Doolittle (2004). "W. Ford Doolittle". Curr. Biol. 14 (5): R176–R177. S2CID 41295582.
- Brown, James R.; Doolittle, W. Ford (1997). "Archaea and the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition". PMID 9409149.
- Doolittle, W. Ford (1999). "Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree". PMID 10381871.
- Baldauf, S. L.; Roger, A. J.; Wenk-Siefert, I.; Doolittle, W. Ford (2000). "A Kingdom-Level Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Combined Protein Data". PMID 11062127.
References
- ^ Owens, Brian (April 11, 2014). "W. Ford Doolittle". science.ca. GCS Research Society. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Gruppe 6: Cellebiologi og molekylærbiologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ "Government of Canada Announces Top Award Winners in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research". 28 June 2016.
- Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the originalon 10 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "W. Ford Doolittle". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2008.
- PMID 23479647.
- ^ "W. Ford Doolittle". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
External links
- Personal homepage at Dalhousie University
- W.F.Doolittle on Google Scholar
- Taking an axe to the Tree of Life, an article describing Doolittle's views on updating Darwin's theory.