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Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds , and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern birds.
The Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy is a bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist. It is based on DNA–DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. [ 1 ]
The Sibley–Monroe checklist is a list of bird species based on a study conducted by Charles Sibley and Burt Monroe. It drew on extensive DNA–DNA hybridization studies to reassess the relationships between modern birds. It was considered a landmark in ornithology on its release. [1]
He became part of the Checklist Committee in 1977. In 1983 he worked with Charles Sibley on DNA-DNA hybridization to work out the classification of birds resulting in the landmark publication Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World (1990). [2] He published A World Checklist of Bird in 1993.
Sibley, Charles G. (1993), A World Checklist of Birds, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-07083-5 Monroe and Sibley consider the tanagers to be a tribe (Thraupini) of a big family Fringillidae rather than a family of their own .
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Jon Edward Ahlquist (27 July 1944 [1] –7 May 2020 [2]) was an American molecular biologist and ornithologist who has specialized in molecular phylogenetics.He has collaborated extensively with Charles Sibley, primarily at Yale University.
George Sibley, played by James Cromwell, is Ruth's second husband, a professor of geology who had been married six times previously. He has two children from a previous marriage: a son, Brian, and a daughter, Maggie, who is a traveling pharmaceutical representative. While he was still a student, George dated a woman and she became pregnant with ...