Cavalier-Smith

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Darwin-Wallace_Medal
gptkb:Linnean_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1942-10-21
gptkbp:deathDate 2021-03-19
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Arthur_J._Cain
gptkbp:education gptkb:Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_British_Columbia
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:fieldOfWork gptkb:dictionary
evolutionary biology
protistology
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Thomas_Cavalier-Smith
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Cavalier-Smith
gptkbp:knownFor proposals of new biological kingdoms
classification of life
work on the origin of eukaryotes
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notablePublication A revised six-kingdom system of life
Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine?
The kingdoms of organisms
The origin of eukaryotic and archaebacterial cells
The evolutionary origin and phylogeny of eukaryotes
The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification
The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Andrew_Roger
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:professor
biologist
gptkbp:proposedKingdom gptkb:Amoebozoa
gptkb:Archezoa
gptkb:Opisthokonta
gptkb:Chromista
gptkb:Animalia_(redefined)
gptkb:Fungi_(redefined)
gptkb:Hacrobia
gptkb:Plantae_(redefined)
gptkb:Rhizaria
gptkb:SAR_supergroup
Bacteria (as a kingdom)
Eukaryota (as a superkingdom)
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Nature
gptkb:Journal_of_Eukaryotic_Microbiology
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:E._E._Butler
gptkbp:thesisTitle Genetic and ecological differentiation of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis
gptkbp:thesisYear 1967
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ichthyosporea
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6