Seems like many of the famous evolutionary biologists are somehow related to each others. For example (and I might be mistaken), Ronald A. Fisher was mentored by a descendent of Charles Darwin. Joe Felsenstein did undergraduate research with James Crow and wrote his doctoral thesis under Richard Lewontin. Muller was mentored by Huxley, friend of Darwin. Brian Charlesworth was mentored by John Maynard Smith who was himself mentored by J.B.S Haldane.
Is there anyone who is crazy enough and interested in the history of evolutionary biology enough to draw a network of relationships between most famous evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin?
An arrow between any two evolutionary biologist might represent a relationship of the kind family
, PhD supervision
or friendship
. Of course there is no limit to the number of famous people to include and there is no good distinction of who should be included. But a network of the 20 (or 50 if you feel courageous) most famous evolutionary biologist would be awesome!