Robert Edmond Grant
On the Origin of Species
...his medical studies for natural history and spent four months assisting Robert Grant 's research into marine invertebrates. Grant revealed his enthusiasm for the transmutation of species,...
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History of evolutionary thought
...the 20th century. A radical British school of comparative anatomy that included the anatomist Robert Grant was closely in touch with Lamarck's French school of Transformationism. One...
Charles Darwin
...a student natural history group whose debates strayed into radical materialism. He assisted Robert Edmund Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine...
Charles Darwin's education
...of the Emotions in Man and Animals). Darwin became a keen student of Robert Edmund Grant, a Lamarckian anatomist. Grant had cited Erasmus Darwin in his doctoral thesis and...
Development of Darwin's theory
...the vicious interrogation by Richard Owen and his allies of Darwin's old tutor Robert Edmund Grant in which they ridiculed Grant's Lamarckian heresy, showing establishment intolerance...
Recapitulation theory
...was widely supported in the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by Robert Edmond Grant, but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's ideas of divergence, and...
Second voyage of HMS Beagle
...his own equipment and means for preserving specimens, seeking advice from his old mentor Robert Edmund Grant amongst others. The geologist Charles Lyell asked FitzRoy to record...
Lamarckism
...based at the University of Edinburgh which included the surgeon Robert Knox and the anatomist Robert Edmund Grant. Professor Robert Jameson wrote an anonymous paper in 1826 praising "Mr....
Plinian Society
...correspondent, we remember to have seen one of our Professors in the Plinian Society." Dr. Robert Edmund Grant had graduated in 1814 and travelled to study anatomy with Georges Cuvier,...
History of paleontology
...professional base for Cuvier, and his professional rival Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire . The English anatomists Robert Grant and Richard Owen both spent time studying there. Owen would go on to...
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
...Darwin learnt about marine invertebrates while assisting the investigations of the anatomist Robert Edmond Grant, and during his last year at the University of Cambridge in 1831, he had...
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Cartoon of Geoffroy as an ape, with Cuvier in the background. 1842 Geoffroy's friend Robert Edmund Grant shared his views on unity of plan and corresponded with him while working on...
