Academic Ancestry

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John Maynard Smith

British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist1920 to 2004

Wikidata names J.B.S. Haldane as doctoral advisor and names J.B.S. Haldane as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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John Maynard Smith, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    J.B.S. Haldane

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.