Quote of the day
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
Gavin de Beer

Born: November 1, 1899
Died: June 21, 1972 (aged 72)
Bio: Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS was a British evolutionary embryologist. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.
Known for:
- Embryos and ancestors (1951)
- The development of the vertebrate skull (1937)
- Alps and elephants
- Homology, an Unsolved Problem (1971)






