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David Mark Hillis (born December 21, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is an American evolutionary biologist, and the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for his studies of molecular evolution, phylogeny, and vertebrate systematics. He created the popular Hillis Plot depiction of the evolutionary tree of life. ==Early life== David Hillis was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1958, the son of William Hillis, an epidemiologist, and Aryge Briggs Hillis, a biostatistician. Hillis lived his early years in Denmark, Belgian Congo, India, and the United States, where he developed his interests in biology and biodiversity. He has two sons, Erec and Jonathan. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Reorganization of Biological Sciences, UT Austin ) 〕 His younger son, Jonathan Hillis, served in 2011 as the National Chief of the Order of the Arrow, the Honor Society of the Boy Scouts of America. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=2011 National Officer Election Results ) 〕 His brother is computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis, 〔 〕 and his sister is Argye E. Hillis, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Johns Hopkins, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Dr. Argye Hillis ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Hillis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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