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Robert R. Sokal (1926--2012) (2012)

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Robert R. Sokal, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, passed away on 9 April 2012 in Stony Brook, New York. He was 86 years old. He was renowned for his contributions to quantitative analysis in biology, especially in ecology, evolutionary biology, and systematics. As a cofounder of numerical taxonomy, he devised methods for classifying organisms (later applied much more widely) that foreshadowed the development of phylogenetic analysis. He honed a wide variety of statistical tools, especially for analyzing spatially distributed data, and contributed abundantly to analyzing patterns of human genetic variation. His textbook Biometry, coauthored with F. J. Rohlf, profoundly influenced training and data analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Authors & Contributors
Roffé, Ariel Jonathan
Waide, Robert
Boem, Federico
Riccardo Mona
Bruce Richard Erick Peirson
Vehlken, Sebastian
Concepts
Biology
Systematics (biology)
Classification in biology
Ecology
Philosophy of science
Evolutionary developmental biology
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
Places
United States
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Sweden
Germany
France
Institutions
International Biological Program
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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