scientists by the big shitter

  • Hopi Hoekstra

    • Studying evolution

    • Currently works at harvard and dean of arts and sciences and evolutionary biologist

    • Featured natural geographic and new york times

    • 1 of the first to identify the mouse experiment. Found out mice were different colors

  • Brandon Ogbunu

    • Grew up in New york and lived with his mom and she was a teacher. Majored in chemistry at biology

    • Traveled look into malaria 

    • Went to harvard into evolutionary biology 

    • At harvard and mit works on diversity

    • Has a lab called ogbunu

    • Epidemiology study of diseases 

    • Evolutionary medicine

    • Faculty of arts and sciences

    • Worked for nba bubble

  • Elisabeth Vrba

    • Born in 1942

    • Animals and other things

    • Wrote books

      • Time in africa and there research

    • Study of how animals decay

    • Palentaligist 

    • Phd in south africa 

    • Works at yale

    • Honor roll member of society which is highest honors for society 

    • Her big find…. Turnover pulse

    • Tracking sequence of fossils

  • Jessica Ware

    • She is from Montreal, Quebec. Jessica has a twin brother and became interested in biology when she was encouraged to catch snakes, insects, and frogs by her grandparents in northern Canada. Ms. Ware went to the University of British Colombia for her bacelor's and then went to Rutgers University for the doctoral program.

    • She has a lot of enthusiasm for insects therefore became a curator of invertebrate zoology, assistant professor at Rutgers University at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and on appears on shows like PBS’s Nova and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Star-Talk podcast to talk about her work. ​

    • She has contributed to a major study of the phylogenomic of insect evolution and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapods. She has undertaken fieldwork in several continents.​

    • 2019, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award, U.S. Government[23][24]​

    • 2017, Syse Snodgrass Memorial Research Award, Entomological Society of America[27] which recognizes "outstanding research by a graduate student".​

    • 2015, NSF Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation​

    • 2008, John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award, Entomological Society of America​

  • Lynn Margulis

    • Was born in 1938 in chicago

    • Oldest

    • Married twice

    • Co founder of 2 national societies in evolutionary protistology

    • Symbiogenesis: two species evolving into a new species through evolutionary independence

    • Endosymbiosis:  a symbiotic relationship where one organism lives inside the other 

    • Gaia theory: that living organisms on the planet interact with their surrounding inorganic environment that forms their own system that is self regulating

    • Microbial evolution: genetic changes that occur, and are retained, in microorganisms over time

    • University professor of geosciences at the university of massachusetts amherst 

    • First female principal investigator of nasa exobiology program

    • National medal of science

    • Darwin wallace medal

    • William procter prize for scientific achievement

    • Graduated high school at age 14

    • Wrote book what is sex

    • She supports aid, denialism, 9/11, anti darwinism.

  • Tomoko Ohta

    • Japanese scientist

    • Genetics

    • North carolina state university

    • born1933 

    • phd in 1966 

    • Nearly neutral theory only matters how many offsprings are produced