David Sepkoski
{{short description|American science historian}}
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David Sepkoski (born January 27, 1972) is an American science historian and college professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.{{Cite web|title=David Sepkoski {{!}} History at Illinois|url=https://history.illinois.edu/directory/profile/sepkoski|access-date=2020-07-24|website=history.illinois.edu|language=en}}
Background and career
Sepkoski was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to paleontologist Jack Sepkoski. His stepmother is the paleomammologist Christine Janis.{{Cite web|title=Paleontologist J. John Sepkoski Jr., 1948-1999|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/99/990504.sepkoski.shtml|access-date=2020-07-24|website=www-news.uchicago.edu}} He received his BA from Carleton College, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his doctoral degree in science history from the University of Minnesota. His publications include three books, most recently Catastrophic Thinking, which deals with mass extinction events.{{Cite book|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo22982546.html|title=Catastrophic Thinking|series=Science.culture |publisher=University of Chicago Press }}
= E. O. Wilson controversy =
Shortly after the death of E. O. Wilson, Sepkoski and Mark Borello published an article in the The New York Review of Books titled Ideology as Biology, which asked: E. O. Wilson corresponded for years with a notorious proponent of race science, advocating for his research behind the scenes. What does it tell us about his most controversial work?{{cite web |last1=Sepkoski |first1=David |title=Ideology as Biology |url=https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/02/05/ideology-as-biology/ |website=The New York Review |publisher=The New York Review |access-date=9 June 2025}}
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