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Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.

David Lack

The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.

David Lack

David Lack

David Lack

Born: July 16, 1910

Died: March 12, 1973 (aged 62)

Bio: David Lambert Lack was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology and ethology. His 1947 book, Darwin's Finches, on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landmark work. He developed Lack's principle.

Known for:

The life of the robin (1943)
Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature
Evolutionary theory and Christian belief (1957)
Swifts in a tower (1956)

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