Eric Pianka, class of 1960, biologist, herpetologist and well-known evolutionary ecologist known as "the Lizard Man."

"I had always assumed that autumn leaves were waste baskets," said Dr. David Wilkinson, an evolutionary ecologist at Liverpool John Moores University in England.

Jon Seger is an American evolutionary ecologist, and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah.

Others on the scientific innovators' list include an evolutionary ecologist investigating how deforestation could affect global carbon dioxide levels and a computer scientist who developed the animation method used to create lifelike characters.

Riitta Johanna Mappes (born 13 October 1965 in Valkeakoski, Finland) is a Finnish evolutionary ecologist.

Kamaljit Singh Bawa (born April 7, 1939 in Punjab, India) is an evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist and a distinguished professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

"This is certainly novel," Dr. Carol Boggs, an evolutionary ecologist at Stanford University, said of the work.

Eric L. Charnov (born October 29, 1947 ) is an American evolutionary ecologist.

Duncan Irschick (born 1969 in San Francisco, California) is an evolutionary ecologist and functional morphologist in the field of animal athletics, more specifically known as animal performance.

"She's been very much a guiding light," said Dr. John Thompson, an evolutionary ecologist at Washington State University, echoing others.