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Marcus Feldman

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Marcus Feldman · Science & Medicine

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Biologist known for mathematical work in population and evolutionary genetics

When

1942, Perth, Australia

Where

Australia · United States

Biography

Marcus Feldman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biologist known for mathematical work in population and evolutionary genetics

How & why

Marcus W. Feldman is an Australian-born American theoretical biologist at Stanford University who, with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, pioneered the mathematical modeling of population genetics, evolutionary dynamics, and cultural (gene-culture co)evolution. His work gave rigorous quantitative foundations to how genes and culture are transmitted and change together. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

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Biologist known for mathematical work in population and evolutionary genetics

1942

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science