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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester KCB FRS (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist. An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, London, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society.
Como zoólogo, Lankester foi um anatomista comparativo da escola de Huxley, trabalhando principalmente com invertebrados. Ele foi o primeiro a mostrar a relação do caranguejo-ferradura ou Limulus com os Aracnídeos. Seus espécimes Limulus ainda podem ser vistos no Grant Museum of Zoology da UCL hoje.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (born May 15, 1847, London, England—died August 15, 1929, London) was a British authority on general zoology at the turn of the 19th century, who made important contributions to comparative anatomy, embryology, parasitology, and anthropology.
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THE greatest morphologist of his generation, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester was born a century ago, on May 15, 1847. He was the son of a medical man, he taught medical students, and throughout his...
1 de dez. de 2017 · Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929), em 1870, foi quem estabeleceu o conceito inicial de homologia considerando o conceito evolutivo. Ele definiu homologia utilizando o termo
Lankester showed that in Arthropods and Molluscs the main body-cavity is not coelomic but distended blood-vascular space to which he gave the name ‘haemocoel’. By expansion chiefly of the venous vessels the haemocoel has (except in Cephalopods) almost obliterated the coelom leaving remnants here and there.
Edwin Ray Lankester, 1847-1929. AMONG- the many notable services rendered to Zoological Science by the late Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, probably none is more enduring, certainly none stood higher in his own estimation, than the part he played in the foundation of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. For he was indeed its Founder.
