Linnean Medal (1958) Kalinga Prize (1968) Darwin Medal Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields
embryologist
Institutions
British Museum (Natural History)
Sir Gavin Rylands de BeerFRS[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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Sir Gavin Rylands deBeer FRS (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded...
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was introduced by Ernst Haeckel in 1875 and given its modern sense by GavindeBeer in 1930. The concept of heterochrony was introduced by the German zoologist...
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tin was found overseas, somewhere in, off, or near Western Europe. GavindeBeer has suggested that Roger Dion had solved the puzzle by bringing to bear...
age Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana, United States. It is named after GavindeBeer. One species, D. ellefseni, is known. Eileen D. Grogan & Richard Lund...
helplessness. Furthermore, this "prematuration" is specifically human. GavindeBeer and Stephen Jay Gould wrote about him and further developed this theory...
and could have been a general name for a peninsula there. In 1960, GavindeBeer concluded that the most likely location of Iktin (the form of the name...
Tunnel de la Traversette, Italian: Buco di Viso) is a pedestrian tunnel constructed between 1478 and 1480 to bypass the Col. In the 1950s, GavindeBeer was...
structure and struggled unsuccessfully to destroy the Achaean League. GavinDeBeer, Hannibal: Challenging Rome's Supremacy, 1969, Viking Press, 319 pages...
John Graham Kerr 1956: William Henry Lang 1957: Erik Stensiö 1958: Sir GavindeBeer and William Bertram Turrill 1959: H. M. Fox and Carl Skottsberg 1960:...
lithographica only referred to the single feather described by Meyer. In 1954 GavindeBeer concluded that the London specimen was the holotype. In 1960, Swinton...
played a central role in the synthesis. The evolutionary embryologist GavindeBeer anticipated evolutionary developmental biology in his 1930 book Embryos...
travel and their perpetuation of a unique culture. The personalities of GavindeBeer and Arnold Lunn represent this attitude through a prolific interpretation...
In turn their disciples, such as E. B. Ford (ecological genetics), GavindeBeer (embryology and evolution), Charles Elton (ecology) and Alister Hardy...
fellowship in physiology at Merton College, but was passed over in favour of GavindeBeer. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1924. At Sherrington's...
Edward Stuart Russell 1943–1946: Arthur Disbrowe Cotton 1946–1949: Sir GavindeBeer 1949–1952: Felix Eugen Fritsch 1952–1955: Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell...
in 1938, his colleagues and pupils published a festschrift edited by GavindeBeer: Evolution: essays on aspects of evolutionary biology. Goodrich E.S...
"almost forty years of severe and crippling neurotic suffering." Sir GavindeBeer disputed this explanation, claiming a physical causation.8 Darwin's...