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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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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