# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-majerus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:23:46.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-majerus"
name: "Michael Majerus"
slug: "michael-majerus"
description: "Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus was a British geneticist and professor of evolution at the University of Cambridge. He was also a teaching fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He was an enthusiast in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and became a world authority in his field of insect evolutionary biology. He was widely noted for his work on moths and ladybirds and as an advocate of the science of evolution. He was also an enthusiastic educator and the author of several books on insects, evolution and sexual reproduction. He is best remembered as an ardent supporter and champion of experiments on peppered moth evolution."
tagline: "British geneticist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-02-13"
deathDate: "2009-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.71
  momentum:             0.6015037593984962
  historical:           5.271742666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michael Majerus"
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    title: "مايكل ماجيروس"
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  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Majerus"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Majerus"
    title: "Michael Majerus"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Majerus"
    title: "Michael Majerus"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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