The Academic Genealogy of George A. Bartholomew

Abstract

In addition to his philosophical and research legacies (Bartholomew, 2005; Dawson, 2005), George Bartholomew also made an enduring contribution to organismal science in the many students that he trained. Bart supervised the training of 39 Ph.D. students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and one Master's student during his long and distinguished tenure at the University of California at Los Angeles. These students went on to train their own students, producing a large descendant academic lineage. This lineage now spans a maximum of seven generations and includes nearly 1,200 individuals. In 1987, Donald Hoyt summarized the academic relationships among Bart's doctoral students and their subsequent doctoral students in a pictorial descendant tree (Fig. 1). This tree included about 200 individuals at the time. On the occasion of this symposium honoring Bart and a decade of recipients of the Bartholomew Award of the Society, we decided to undertake 1 From the Symposium Integrative Biology: A Symposium Honoring George A. Bartholomew presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 5-9 January 2004 at New Orleans, Louisiana. 2 E-mail: abennett@uci.edu