INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 820 Amsterdam, December 14th, 2019 If there is a singular topic integral students need to be educated on, it is evolutionary biology. In the coming weeks, we therefore publish a few chapters from "THE EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS, Glimpses into the Life and Work of Great Thinkers in Evolutionary Biology" (MSAC PHILOSOPHY GROUP). ROBERT TRIVERS - YUANLING TANG Robert Trivers, a famous American evolutionary biologist with a Ph.D. in Biology, was born on February 19, 1943. He developed the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, parental-offspring conflict, and facultative sex-ratio determination. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane199.html ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - JUN AHN Few individuals rise from the subpar conditions that Alfred Russel Wallace was born into and achieve scientific greatness. From a family of 9 children, the 8th grew to become one of the greatest philosophers of the natural world. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane200.html AUGUST WEISMANN - DENISE MOTUS August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (January 17, 1834–November 5, 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist who studied and experimented extensively on Charles Darwin's and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's respective theories of evolution. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane201.html GEORGE C. WILLIAMS - JOSEPH PEREZ A pivotal figure in the modern theory of evolution, American evolutionary biologist George Christopher Williams is best known for furthering the theory of gene-level natural selection, as well as for his refutation of the then widely accepted view of group selection. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane202.html EDWARD OSBORNE WILSON - VIKRAANT CHOWDHRY Edward Osborne Wilson, also referred to as E.O. Wilson, is an American biologist who was born on June 10, 1929. Wilson grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and from a young age was fond of the outdoors. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane203.html