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Born | Taumarunui, New Zealand | 28 September 1938
Died | 20 May 2024 Palmerston North, New Zealand | (aged 85)
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Fields | Theoretical biology |
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Doctoral students | Barbara R. Holland[1] Mike Steel[2] |
Edward David Penny CNZM FRSNZ (28 September 1938 – 20 May 2024)[3] was a New Zealand theoretical and evolutionary biologist. He researched the nature of evolutionary transformations, and published widely in the fields of phylogenetic tree, genetics and evolutionary biology. Penny's contributions to science have been recognised with several awards and honours, and acceptance into the National Academy of Sciences.