# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-felsenstein
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:11.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-felsenstein"
name: "Joseph Felsenstein"
slug: "joseph-felsenstein"
description: "Joseph \"Joe\" Felsenstein is an American phylogeneticist and computational biologist, and a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is best known for his work on phylogenetic inference, and is the author of Inferring Phylogenies, and principal author and distributor of the package of phylogenetic inference programs called PHYLIP. Closely related to his work on phylogenetic inference is his introduction of methods for making statistically independent comparisons using phylogenies."
tagline: "American phylogeneticist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Felsenstein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1942-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.411628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump