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Thomas Cavalier-Smith (Londres, 21 de octubre de 1942-19 de marzo de 2021) fue un biólogo evolutivo, protozoólogo y taxónomo anglo canadiense, profesor titular de Biología Evolutiva del departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Oxford y Presidente de la British Society for Protist Biology.
Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow (21 October 1942 – 19 March 2021), was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford.
10 de may. de 2021 · A tribute to the polymath of cellular evolution who shaped understanding of the tree of life. Learn about his contributions to the study of protists, endosymbiosis, eukaryotes, prokaryotes and genome structure.
Thomas Cavalier-Smith, one of the most prolific evolutionary biologists of the last century, passed away on March 19 th, 2021. Tom’s interests were vast. He tackled topics ranging from the origins of the first cell and the evolution of genome and cell architectures to the origins, phylogeny, and classification of all major lineages in the ...
Thomas Cavalier-Smith fue un biólogo evolutivo, protozoólogo y taxónomo anglocanadiense, profesor titular de Biología Evolutiva del departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Oxford y Presidente de la British Society for Protist Biology.
Professor of Botany. Biography. Born in 1942, Thomas received his education at Norwich School before attending Cambridge (MA, 1964) and completing a PhD (1967, King's College London with John Randall) studying the diversity of protists with the recently-developed electron microscope.
As a committed systematist, his schemes included classifi cations of the relevant lineages, and he changed these rapidly in response to new data. Tom was equal parts brilliant, encyclopedic, opinionated, and iconoclastic. He was not afraid to advance bold hypotheses even when data were scarce.
