Hampton L. Carson (biologist)
Hampton L. Carson | |
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | November 5, 1914
Died | December 19, 2004 Hawaii | (aged 90)
Education | University of Hawaii (1971–1985) |
Hampton Lawrence Carson (November 5, 1914 – December 19, 2004) was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the
Carson was born in
Carson spent virtually all of his career at two universities —
.Carson studied the population genetics and polytene chromosome polymorphisms of the highly diverse lineage of Drosophila species on the Hawaiian islands and proposed that speciation of these flies in the island chain was tied to isolation caused by formation of new islands. New species were slightly different from those in the nearest island, and progressively more different from those in more distant islands. Within islands, he argued that isolation between some species was caused by lava flows creating different forest patches or kipukas, and that reproductive isolation was accelerated due to within deme sexual selection.
He was awarded the 1985 Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.[1] Although Hampton Carson retired from the University of Hawaii faculty in 1985, he remained active in research and continued living in Hawaii with his wife and colleague Meredith. He died in Hawaii.
References
- S2CID 198160356.
External links
- Hampton L. Carson/ 1914-2004: Geneticist earned praise for studies of isle fruit fly, obituary in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 8, 2005
- Hampton L. Carson (1914–2004) Journal of Heredity 96(3), 285-286
- The Hampton L. Carson papers at the American Philosophical Society
- Alan R. Templeton, "Hampton Lawrence Carson", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2011)