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Author | : Richard S. Owen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1108037755 |
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A two-volume biography from 1894 of the brilliant anatomist who founded the Natural History Museum, but opposed Darwin's evolutionary theory.
Author | : Nicolaas Rupke |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226731782 |
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In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, Nicolaas A. Rupke resuscitates Owen’s reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin
Author | : Rev. Richard Owen |
Publisher | : Gregg Revivals |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Richard Owen |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781017357554 |
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Author | : Richard Owen |
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Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Richard Owen |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Richard Owen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226641953 |
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The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical discoveries and offered theoretical innovations that were crucial to the proof of evolution. Among his many lasting contributions to science was the first clear definition of the term homology—“the same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.” He also graphically demonstrated that all vertebrate species were built on the same skeletal plan and devised the vertebrate archetype as a representation of the simplest common form of all vertebrates. Just as Darwin’s ideas continue to propel the modern study of adaptation, so too will Owen’s contributions fuel the new interest in homology, organic form, and evolutionary developmental biology. His theory of the archetype and his views on species origins were first offered to the general public in On the Nature of Limbs, published in 1849. It reemerges here in a facsimile edition with introductory essays by prominent historians, philosophers, and practitioners from the modern evo-devo community.
Author | : Richard Owen |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Rev. Richard Owen |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Richard Owen |
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Release | : 1970 |
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