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)
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