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Walter M. Fitch
(21 May 1929 - 11 Mar 2011)
American evolutionary biologist who is professor of molecular evolution at the University of California. He is a pioneer in the reconstruction of evolutionary trees (phylogenetic trees) from protein and DNA sequences.
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Science Quotes by Walter M. Fitch (1 quote)
One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
— Walter M. Fitch
Telephone conversation with Susan Abrams 1983.
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21 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Fitch's birth. 
The Three Failures of Creationism: Logic, Rhetoric, and Science, by Walter M. Fitch. - book suggestion.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
