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Motoo Kimura
- In this Japanesename, the family name is Kimura.
Motoo Kimura[1] (13 November 1924 – 13 November 1994) was a Japanesemathematician and biologist.
Motoo kimura biography
He was known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. "Calculating the rate of evolution in terms of nucleotide substitutions seems to give a value so high that many of the mutations involved must be neutral ones".[2]
He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists:
Motoo Kimura's research contributions can be divided into two parts.
The first is a series of papers on theoretical population genetics, the quality and quantity of which place him as the successor to the great trinity, R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane and Sewall Wright. The second is his neutral theory, the idea that the bulk of molecular evolutionary changes are driven by mutation and random chance, rather than by natural selection.[3]
Kimura was heavily influenced by Se