Kistler Prize
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For creating the technological foundation of modern molecular biology and genomics through the invention of five groundbreaking instruments.
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For a body of work with ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with the demonstration of DNA survival in a 2,400-year-old mummy.
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For a body of pioneering work in genome science.
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For work in the science of population genetics, culminating in the design and implementation of National Geographic and IBM’s Genographic Project.
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For scientific research on biological influences on human cognitive and motor skills, most notably the relationship between sex and cognition.
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For scientific research on human individual differences caused by genetic and environmental influences, through the study of monozygotic and dizygotic twins.
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For
discoveries in molecular dating, determining that humans and the
great apes diverged much more recently than previously believed.
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For scientific research on human intelligence, establishing the genetic
basis for individual differences in intelligence.
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For his work tracing historical migrations by analyzing the genetic
differences between humans living today.
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For his work in the ethology of the gene, redirecting the focus of
the “levels of selection” debate from the individual animal
as the unit of evolution to the genes.
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For the introduction of biological thought into the social sciences
to create the field of sociobiology.
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