- Ford Doolittle
Dr. W. Ford Doolittle (born 1942 in
Urbana, Illinois ) is abiochemist .As of 2005 , he is aprofessor atDalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He received his BA inBiochemical Sciences fromHarvard University in 1963 and hisPhD fromStanford University in 1967.Since joining the
biochemistry department at Dalhousie in 1971, Dr. Doolittle has made significant contributions to the study ofcyanobacteria , found evidence for theendosymbiont hypothesis ofchloroplasts ' origins, developed a theoretical basis for the initial evolution ofeukaryotes and shown the importance ofhorizontal gene transfer inprokaryotic evolution.In 1981, Dr. Doolittle received some level of notoriety for his article in "The CoEvolution Quarterly" entitled "Is Nature Really Motherly?". A sharp rebuttal of J. E. Lovelock's formulation of the
Gaia Theory , Doolittle's article is often cited by Lovelock's critics.External links
* [http://www.biochem.dal.ca/faculty/facultypages/doolittle/ Personal homepage] at
Dalhousie University
* Archaea and the Prokaryote-to-Eukaryote Transition, with James R. Brown, MMBR|Dec. 1997|61|4|456|502
* Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree, ScienceAAAS|25 June 1999|284|5423|2124|2129, PubMed|10381871
* A Kingdom-Level Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Combined Protein Data, with S. L. Baldauf, A. J. Roger, I. Wenk-Siefert, ScienceAAAS|3 Nov. 2000|290|5493|972|977, PubMed|11062127
* [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=W-Ford-Doolittle+OR+W-F-Doolittle&hl=en W.F.Doolittle on Google Scholar]
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