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Table 1 African American pioneers in evolutionary biology

From: African Americans in evolutionary science: where we have been, and what’s next

Name

Institution

Years

Joseph L. Graves Jr.

Wayne State University

1988

Scott Edwards

University of California (Berkeley)

1992

Tyrone Hayes

Harvard University

1993

Collette St Mary

University of California (Santa Barbara)

1994

Paul Turner

Michigan State University

1995

Charles Richardson

Indiana University

1999

  1. This may not be a comprehensive list. As the number of persons of African descent receiving PhD’s in evolutionary biology or identifying themselves as evolutionary biologists began to increase in the 1990s