Richard Owen
Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen KCB FRSwas an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 July 1804
animal different form
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
appreciation dependence-on-others importance
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
way principles chains
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
men progress inquiry
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
variation degrees kind
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
attention structure barnacles
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
maturity causes individual
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
would-be individual certain
That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
relationship bottles vodka
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
elude-us tests facts
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.