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Sir Gavin de Beer
Born
Gavin Rylands de Beer

(1899-11-01)1 November 1899
Malden, Surrey, England
Died21 June 1972(1972-06-21) (aged 72)
Alfriston, Sussex, England
Known forHeterochrony
AwardsLinnean Medal (1958)
Kalinga Prize (1968)
Darwin Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsembryologist
InstitutionsBritish Museum (Natural History)

Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS[1] (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.

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