Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta is a japanese scientist working on molecular evolution. After working on the neutral theory of evolution with her mentor, Motoo Kimura, she became convinced of the importance of the borderline, the mutations that were nearly neutral, and she developed the nearly neutral theory of evolution. She is currently at the Japan’s National Institute of Genetics and, in 2002, she was elected to the National Academy of Science as a foreign associate in evolutionary biology.