Edward O. Wiley
| Wiley, Edward O. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 August 1944 (age 72) Corpus Christi, TX |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Research Associate, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History |
| Alma mater | The City University of New York, New York, New York |
| Doctoral advisor | Masters advisor: Darrell Hall, Sam Houston State University (retired), Doctoral advisor: Donn E. Rosen, American Museum of Natural History (deceased) |
| Known for | Extensive theoretical work and landmark publications in phylogenetic systematics and ichthyology. |
| Notable awards | Gibbs Award |
Professor Edward Orlando Wiley III is the curator emeritus of ichthyology at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and professor of systematics and evolution for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. His <Masters advisor was Darrell Hall, of Sam Houston State University (retired), and his doctoral advisor was Donn E. Rosen, of the American Museum of Natural History (deceased). Wiley has published extensively in topics related to phylogenetic systematics and was involved in the founding of the Willi Hennig Society. Wiley is known for building on and establishing conceptual advances in the evolutionary species concept, first formulated by George Gaylord Simpson. Wiley defines an evolutionary species as:
"A species is a lineage of ancestral descendant populations which maintains its identity from other such lineages and which has its own evolutionary tendencies and historical fate."
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