# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-hillis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:49.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-hillis"
name: "David Hillis"
slug: "david-hillis"
description: "David Mark Hillis is an American evolutionary biologist, and the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for his studies of molecular evolution, phylogeny, and vertebrate systematics. He created the popular Hillis Plot depiction of the evolutionary tree of life."
tagline: "Evolutionary Biologist (1958-)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-12-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.21
  momentum:             0.06944444444444445
  historical:           4.60522
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديفيد هيليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد هيليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hillis"
    title: "David Hillis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mark_Hillis"
    title: "David Mark Hillis"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mark_Hillis"
    title: "David Mark Hillis"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations