Chung-I Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴仲义; traditional Chinese: 吳仲義; born 1954) is a Taiwanese biologist, academician of Academia Sinica, and former professor at the University of Chicago.
[1] He was also the second director of the Beijing Genomics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He pioneered the study of speciation at the molecular level,[7] introducing cutting-edge gene replacement techniques to answer classical ecological questions in the model organism Drosophila.
[8] He also made original contributions in areas such as selfish genes,[9] molecular clocks,[10] X chromosome degeneration, and evolutionary genomics.
[11][12] His proposed hypotheses on the genetic mechanism of reproductive isolation and the gene concept of speciation are innovative and represent a significant departure from traditional ideas in species biology.