Department of Ecology and Evolution Professor Emeritus Dr. Richard R. Hudson was recently awarded the Kimura Motoo Award for his outstanding work on “the coalescence theory with ancestral recombination”.
Dr. Hudson traveled to Tokyo to receive the award from the Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology. The Foundation, which supports research and education in evolutionary biology and its related fields in life science, was established in honor of Dr. Motoo Kimura, a biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
The Kimura Motoo Award was created in 2016 to recognize outstanding scientists from each of four research fields of evolutionary biology: population genetics, molecular phylogeny, molecular evolution and evolutionary genomics, and human evolution.
Congratulations to Dr. Hudson on this recognition.