# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-w-valentine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:01:56.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-w-valentine"
name: "James W. Valentine"
slug: "james-w-valentine"
description: "James William Valentine was an American evolutionary biologist, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology."
tagline: "American evolutionary biologist (1926–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d6/James_W_Valentine_1991.jpg/330px-James_W_Valentine_1991.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-11-10"
deathDate: "2023-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.537221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "James W. Valentine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس ويليام فالنتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس دبليو. فالنتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James W. Valentine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Valentine"
    title: "James W. Valentine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Valentine"
    title: "James W. Valentine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3)"
    title: "Валентайн, Джеймс (биолог)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump