Richard Swann Lull | |
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![]() Portrait by William Sergeant Kendall | |
Born | Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. | November 6, 1867
Died | April 22, 1957 | (aged 89)
Alma mater | Rutgers College Columbia University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Paleontology |
Institutions | Massachusetts Agricultural College Yale University |
Doctoral advisor | Henry Fairfield Osborn |
Notable students | George Gaylord Simpson[1] |
Richard Swann Lull (November 6, 1867 – April 22, 1957) was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unlock presumed "genetic drives" that, over time, would lead populations to increasingly extreme phenotypes (and perhaps, ultimately, to extinction).