Brian Goodwin
Canadian mathematician and biologist
Died when: 78 years 112 days (939 months)Star Sign: Aries
Brian Carey Goodwin (25 March 1931 – 15 July 2009) (St Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Torbay, Devon, UK) was a Canadian mathematician and biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Open University and a founder of theoretical biology and biomathematics.
He introduced the use of complex systems and generative models in developmental biology.He suggested that a reductionist view of nature fails to explain complex features, controversially proposing the structuralist theory that morphogenetic fields might substitute for natural selection in driving evolution.
He was also a visible member of the Third Culture movement.
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