Michael T Ghiselin was born on May 13,1939 and is an American biologist and philosopher as well as historian of biology, formerly at the California Academy of Sciences.
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10 Facts About Michael Ghiselin
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Michael Ghiselin is known for his work on sea slugs, and for his criticism of the falsification of the history of Lamarckism in biology textbooks.
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Michael Ghiselin became a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and moved on to become Postdoctoral Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1965.
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Michael Ghiselin is famous for his work on sea slugs, and has had both a species and the defensive chemical that it contains named after him.
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Michael Ghiselin has worked on the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology.
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Michael Ghiselin's thought on Darwin's view of selection, whether to the individual or to the group, and sometimes apparently kin selectionist, has been criticised as inconsistent by Helena Cronin.
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Michael Ghiselin is given much of the credit for first theorizing that biological species are not kinds of organisms, but are rather individuals in a philosophical sense.
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Michael Ghiselin was the originator of the term "chunks of the genealogical nexus" to describe species.
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Michael Ghiselin has many interdisciplinary interests, among which is forging links between biology and economics.
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Michael Ghiselin is Vice President of the International Society for Bioeconomics, and has served as the Co-Editor of the Journal of Bioeconomics since it was established in 1998.
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