in 1972 3M Life Sciences Award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in 1991 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1988 Member of the Human Genome Organization Associate editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution References External links Profile at Omnilexica Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution Allan Wilson: Evolutionary, Film, 2008 (Documentary), George Andrews Productions Background on Allan Wilson Work on human evolution Allan Charles Wilson, Biochemistry; Molecular Biology: Berkeley, by Bruce N. Ames, Thomas H. Jukes, Vincent M. Sarich, David B. Wake in University of California: In Memoriam, 1991 Guide to the Allan Wilson Papers at The Bancroft Library 1934 births 1991 deaths Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society MacArthur Fellows Human evolution theorists New Zealand biologists Evolutionary biologists New Zealand biochemists New Zealand emigrants to the United States People from Ngāruawāhia Paleoanthropologists University of Otago alumni People educated at King's College, Auckland 20th-century biologists Deaths from leukemia