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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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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