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Early nineteenth-century zoology in Britain has been characterized as determined by the ideological concerns of its proponents. Taking the zoologist Robert E. Grant as an exemplary figure in this regard, this article offers a differently nuanced account of the conditions under which natural-philosophical knowledge concerning animal life was established in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Biografía. Robert Edmond Grant. Grant fue uno de los profesores fundadores de la Universidad de Londres, y de 1827 a 1874 ocupó las Cátedras Combinadas de Zoología y Anatomía Comparada de 1827 a 1874 . También ocupó la cátedra Fulleriana de fisiología de 1837 a 1840 y la cátedra Swiney en el Museo Británico de 1853 a 1857 .
1 de abr. de 2010 · A zoologist who took up that challenge was Robert E. Grant (1793–1874), who had received his M.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1814 and remained there until 1827—long enough to advance Charles Darwin's interest in shallow-water marine animals and to advocate Lamarckian evolution (Desmond 1984, 2004a, Desmond b, Sloan 1985:73–86, Secord 1991, Stott 2003:3–19).
He attended lectures by John Lindley (botany) and Robert Edmund Grant (zoology) – to whose post Edwin's eldest son E. Ray Lankester succeeded in 1875. Grant had been one of Darwin's tutors at Edinburgh. Edwin's friends at UCL included William Jenner and William Benjamin Carpenter.
On 19 December 1838 as secretary of the Geological Society of London Darwin witnessed the vicious interrogation by Richard Owen and his allies of Darwin's old tutor Robert Edmund Grant in which they ridiculed Grant's Lamarckian heresy, showing establishment intolerance of materialist theories. Married life
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Richard McClintock ( Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Inglaterra, el 12 de febrero de 1957-2003) fue uno de los mejores investigadores/biólogos del mundo entre sus descubrimientos están la determinación de la línea roja de extinción de las especies y varios estudios sobre especies animales y sus diferencias con los Homo Sapiens lo cual le llevó a ...
