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More Fun Than Fun: David Wake, Salamanders and the Origin and Loss of Species


More Fun Than Fun: David Wake, Salamanders and the Origin and Loss of Species
07/07/2021
L-R: the author, David Wake (1936-2021), Marvalee Wake and the Canadian botanist John McNeill, on the occasion of the centenary of the International Union of Biological Sciences, Oslo, July-August 2019. Photo: Geetha Gadagkar
On April 29, 2021, I received the sad news that David Wake was no more. Despite being somewhat numbed by the relentless news of death and destruction caused by the pandemic, Wake’s passing on raised my lugubriousness much more above the background noise.
Fond memories rushed into my consciousness. I first met David Wake in October 1994, when I visited the University of Berkeley to give a seminar at the invitation of my friend and colleague Wayne M. Getz, a distinguished multi-disciplinary scientist with his deft fingers in many pies, including honey bee kin-recognition, wildlife in Africa, conservation science and mathematical modelling. ....

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David B. Wake (1936–2021)

David B. Wake, a pioneer in the fields of evolutionary morphology, evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and organismal diversification, died on 29 April. He was 84. Wake was a career-long visionary in organismal biology who led evolutionary biologists to examine not only how organisms are different but also how they become different. As a graduate student, he set the framework for his career by detailing the evolutionary relationships and morphological diversity of salamanders. He then delved into functional morphology (how organismal structures work), evolutionary development (how developmental pathways influence diversification of form), and speciation (how species come to be). One of the most influential and integrative biodiversity scientists of his era, Dave was boundlessly curious about all aspects of evolution and unusually open-minded about new techniques and analyses.

Dave was born on 8 June 1936 and raised in South Dakota. He attended Pacific Lutheran College ....

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