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| #2853843 in Books | 2008-01-15 | 2008-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.82 | File type: PDF | 119 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Valuable historical document with intelligent introductions|By R. Sinclair|Richard Owen has left his mark on science, but his considerable contributions tend to be forgotten due to his refusal to accept Darwinian evolutionary theory as understood in his time. This book begins with really excellently written introductions, which put Owen's science in appropriate context, and all||"I look at Owen's Archetypes as more than ideal, as a real representation as far as the most consummate skill and loftiest generalization can represent the parent form of the Vertebrata." - Charles Darwin, marginalia in his copy of On the Nature of Limbs"|<
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 sam...
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