Who's your favorite Evolutionary Biologist?

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Who's your favorite Evolutionary Biologist?

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Title says it all, based on Battlehymn Republic's thread idea.
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Stephen Jay Gould. Always fun to read.
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John Maynard Smith

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The late and great John Maynard Smith for his *numerous* contribution to evolutionary biology, including introducing Games Theory and injecting other fresh concepts into the field
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Darth Raptor wrote:Stephen Jay Gould. Always fun to read.
I agree
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Richard Dawkin's stuff is pretty good reading, and easier (in my opinion) than Stephen Gould's.
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