# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-cavalier-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:42:08.078Z

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name: "Thomas Cavalier-Smith"
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description: "Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford."
tagline: "British biologist (1942–2021)"
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birthDate: "1942-10-21"
deathDate: "2021-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump