# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-j-futuyma
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:18:15.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-j-futuyma"
name: "Douglas J. Futuyma"
slug: "douglas-j-futuyma"
description: "Douglas Joel Futuyma is an American evolutionary biologist. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York and a Research Associate on staff at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His research focuses on speciation and population biology. Futuyma is the author of a widely used undergraduate textbook on evolution and is also known for his work in public outreach, particularly in advocating against creationism."
tagline: "American biologist (1942-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Futuyma2004.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.641025641025641
  historical:           7.417928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "دوجلاس جيه فوتويما"
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    title: "ダグラス・J・フツイマ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Футуйма, Дуглас"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump