Edward O. Wiley

Wiley, Edward O.
Born15 August 1944 (1944-08-15) (age 80)
Corpus Christi, TX
NationalityAmerican
Alma materThe City University of New York, New York, New York
Known forTheoretical work in phylogenetic systematics and ichthyology.
AwardsGibbs Award
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
InstitutionsUniversity of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Research Associate, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History
Doctoral advisorMasters advisor: Darrell Hall, Sam Houston State University (retired), Doctoral advisor: Donn E. Rosen, American Museum of Natural History (deceased)

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.[1][2] His master's adviser 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).[3] Wiley has published extensively in topics related to phylogenetic systematics, is a Past President of the Society of Systematic Biology (then Zoology) and was involved in the founding of the Willi Hennig Society.[4] Wiley is known for building on and establishing conceptual advances in the evolutionary species concept, first formulated by George Gaylord Simpson.[5] 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."[6]

Wiley received the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 2004 for his work on the evolution of fishes.[7]

  1. ^ "University of Kansas faculty profile". University of Kansas. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  2. ^ "University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute". University of Kansas. Archived from the original on August 23, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  3. ^ Bemis, W. E.; Brainerd, E. L. "NSF funding application: PBI: Pufferfishes and Allies - Tetraodontiformes - as a Model Group for Planetary Biodiversity Inventories" (PDF).[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Schuh, R. T. (1981). "Willi Hennig Society: Report of First Annual Meeting". Syst. Zool. 30 (1): 76–81. doi:10.2307/2992305. JSTOR 2992305.
  5. ^ Frost, D. R.; Hillis, D. M. (1990). Herpetologica. 46 (1): 86–104 http://www.bio.utexas.edu/faculty/antisense/papers/Herpetologica1990.pdf. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Wiley, E. O. (1978). "The Evolutionary Species Concept Reconsidered". Syst Biol. 27 (1): 17–26. doi:10.2307/2412809. JSTOR 2412809.
  7. ^ "Gibbs Award | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists". Archived from the original on 2017-07-09. Retrieved 2017-05-17.