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Jul 20, 1998 · Richard Owen, British anatomist and paleontologist who is remembered for his contributions to the study of fossil animals, especially dinosaurs. He was the first to recognize them as different from today’s reptiles. Owen was also noted for his strong opposition to the views of Charles Darwin.
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Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Owen's 1832 publication, Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832), brought him much acclaim, but he also made substantial contributions in the zoology and anatomy of other invertebrates, including additional mollusks, both extant and extinct, as well as sponges, brachiopods, and arthropods.
Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced back to the ambition of one man: Sir Richard Owen.
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Richard Owen, an ambitious leading figure of Victorian science, wrote one of the main reviews of the Origin of Species for the respected Edinburgh Review. Owen vacilated between accepting or denying evolution but was certain that Darwin's proposed mechanisms were wrong. Owen argued instead for a confusing theory of "the continuous operation of the ...
John van Wyhe converted this text from one prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo (johnstoi@mala.bc.ca). Owen's footnotes have been moved to the end of the document, with numerical references in the text. The translations after the quotations from foreign works (given in square brackets) are by Ian Johnston. In December 2...
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(1) On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 8vo. 1842. [Return to text] (2) In the remarkable volume recently published by Lord Brougham, entitled 'Tracts, mathematical and physical,' which have been produced by his Lordship at various times from the year 1796 to the year 1858, will be found an excellent paper on the Mathematical Structur...
Brooke, John Hedley, "Richard Owen, William Whewell, and the Vestiges." British Journal for the History of Science10, 1977, pp. 132-45. Gardiner, Brian G. 1993. "Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and the Red Lions." Archives of Natural History 201349-72. MacLeod, Roy M., 'Evolution and Richard Owen', Isis, 56, 2965, pp. 259-80. Owen, Richard, The Life o...
Owen’s theistic anatomy combined the functionalism of French paleontological pioneer Georges Cuvier with concepts from German transcendentalism, the latter of which inspired his notion of a divinely ordained archetype underlying all vertebrate skeletons.
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Jul 20, 2021 · One of Owen ‘s most dramatic achievements was his scientific prediction based on the study of a tiny fragment of fossilized bone. From observation alone, Owen concluded it belonged to a large extinct bird that once lived in New Zealand.
