Eviatar Nevo (; born February 2, 1929, in Haifa,

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), is Professor Emeritus, founder and director of the Institute of Evolution at

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, Israel.

Research

Nevo received a M.Sc and PhD (1964) from

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. It is the second-ol ...

. His Ph.D thesis was entitled "Population studies of Anurans from the lower Cretaceous of Makhtesh Ramon, Israel". He founded the Institute of Evolution at Haifa in 1973 and researches

evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biolo ...

, in particular, speciation processes, modifications of highly evolved traits (vision), climatic and geographic effects in sympatric speciation in insects, bacteria, fungi, mammals and crops. He is a proponent of evolutionary models where environmental stressors act positively to shape genetic polymorphisms. In 1994, he nicknamed

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"Evolution Canyon" and later proposed a model of the same name that acts as a global warming monitor through observing biodiversity. The EC microscale model can be used when there are two opposite slopes with contrasting climatic conditions. Studies at Mount Carmel of particular impact and interest have involved

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and wild

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. He has published more than 1000 peer-reviewed research articles on a wide array of topics about genetic diversity, evolution in action, and environmental shaping of evolutionary processes. According to Thomson Reuters, he is among the top highly cited researchers in the world.

Awards and honors

He is a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society, London (1990) and of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences (1997). He is a Foreign Associate Member in Evolutionary Biology section of the

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, USA (2000),"Eviatar Nevo", National Academy of Science
/ref> an Honorary Member of the Ukraine Botanical Society (1995), of the American Society of Mammalogists (2002), and the Israel Zoological Society (2007). He received Honorary doctorates from World University (1990) and the

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, Germany.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nevo, Eviatar 1929 births Living people Israeli biologists Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the University of Haifa Evolutionary biologists Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Academics from Tel Aviv