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On the Nature of Limbs

Author : Richard Owen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226641953
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book On the Nature of Limbs written by Richard Owen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical discoveries and offered theoretical innovations that were crucial to the proof of evolution. Among his many lasting contributions to science was the first clear definition of the term homology—“the same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.” He also graphically demonstrated that all vertebrate species were built on the same skeletal plan and devised the vertebrate archetype as a representation of the simplest common form of all vertebrates. Just as Darwin’s ideas continue to propel the modern study of adaptation, so too will Owen’s contributions fuel the new interest in homology, organic form, and evolutionary developmental biology. His theory of the archetype and his views on species origins were first offered to the general public in On the Nature of Limbs, published in 1849. It reemerges here in a facsimile edition with introductory essays by prominent historians, philosophers, and practitioners from the modern evo-devo community.

Richard Owen

Author : Victor Lincoln Albjerg
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539588
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Richard Owen written by Victor Lincoln Albjerg and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. The youngest of eight children, Richard grew up at the family estate of Braxfield House, where he received his early education from private tutors. He would later go on to study chemistry, physics, and natural sciences, among other subjects, traveling between Scotland and Switzerland for his schooling. Owen arrived in the United States in 1828 to teach in New Haven, Indiana, where his father was running an experimental utopian community of happiness, enlightenment, and prosperity. He would later go on to be Indiana’s second state geologist before enlisting in the army during both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Colonel Owen took command of 4,000 Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, where he established new daily routines and rules for supervision of the prisoners. Under Owen’s command, prisoners were allowed to read books and form glee clubs, theatrical groups, and sports teams. He also created a camp bakery staffed by prisoners that proved to be a substantial cost savings, allowing for above-average rations for the prisoners under his watch. After his military service came to an end, Owen continued to serve as a state geologist as well as becoming a professor at Indiana University, teaching chemistry, language, and natural philosophy. After failing to help secure IU as Indiana’s land-grant school, Owen was recruited to help establish Purdue University, west of Lafayette. The board of trustees selected him to serve as the University’s first president on August 13, 1872. However, Owen and the trustees disagreed on many early initiatives, including his focus on agriculture and push for more comfortable living arrangements for students. After less than two years serving as president, where he never drew a salary, Owen resigned his position and returned to teaching at Indiana University, until hearing problems caused him to retire in 1879. He spent his remaining years in New Harmony, where he conducted research and published several scientific papers until his tragic death caused by an accidental poisoning at the hand of a local pharmacist.

Richard Owen

Author : Nicolaas Rupke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226731782
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Richard Owen written by Nicolaas Rupke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, Nicolaas A. Rupke resuscitates Owen’s reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin

Answering the Ultimate Question

Author : Richard Owen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470260696
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Answering the Ultimate Question written by Richard Owen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question, that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?"-challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms 'bad profits' and 'good profits' and pointed to a faster, much more accurate way of gauging customers' real loyalty to a company, introducing a quantitative measure (the Net Promoter Score) for establishing a baseline and effectively tracking changes going forward. Richard Owen and Laura Brooks are co-developers, along with Reichheld, of the methodology behind answering the question. In this book, Owen and Brooks tell how based on a variety of real case studies' to actually embed Net Promoter discipline in organizations of all types.

Richard Owen

Author : Nicolaas A. Rupke
Publisher : Yale University Press UK Sr
ISBN 13 : 9780300058208
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Richard Owen written by Nicolaas A. Rupke and published by Yale University Press UK Sr. This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Owen was, after Darwin, the most important figure in Victorian natural history. He was, for most of the six decades of his career, Britain's foremost comparative anatomist and vertebrate palaeontologist. As the most renowned opponent of natural selection, Owen was type-cast as a Cuvierian creationist and became the bete noire of the Darwinian evolution debate. In this comprehensive intellectual and scientific biography, Nicolaas Rupke argues that Owen was no simple-minded anti-evolutionist and, moreover, should be freed from the distortion of the evolution dispute that was only a minor part of his work, yet has come to dominate his memory.

Made for Learning:

Author : Debra Crouch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878450005
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Made for Learning: written by Debra Crouch and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for teachers that explores Brian Cambourne's Conditions of Learning and the Processes That Empower Learning, incorporating abundant examples of the ways teachers implement the conditions to lead to durable learning. Written by Debra Crouch and Brian Cambourne, this is the primary source of insight and information about the Conditions of Learning.

Repentance

Author : Richard Owen Roberts
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143351592X
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Repentance written by Richard Owen Roberts and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a serious problem when society misunderstands or disregards sin and repentance. But when the church neglects these doctrines, the impact is profound. This book unfolds the nature and necessity of biblical repentance, but for the church in particular. Roberts' in-depth study heavily references both he Old and New Testaments, and includes chapters on the myths, maxims, marks, models, and motives of repentance, as well as the graces and fruits that accompany it. There is also wise warning about the dangers of delayed repentance.

Revival

Author : Richard Owen Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780940033368
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Revival written by Richard Owen Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Richard Owen

Author : Richard S. Owen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108037747
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Richard Owen written by Richard S. Owen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume biography from 1894 of the brilliant anatomist who founded the Natural History Museum, but opposed Darwin's evolutionary theory.

On the Nature of Limbs

Author : Richard Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Nature of Limbs written by Richard Owen and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Master and Servant; Or, Richard Owen's Choice

Author : Ruth Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master and Servant; Or, Richard Owen's Choice written by Ruth Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dinosaur Studies - Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Richard Owen's Dinosauria

Author : L. B. Halstead
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9782881248337
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Studies - Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Richard Owen's Dinosauria written by L. B. Halstead and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy, May and June 1837

Author : Richard Owen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226641898
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy, May and June 1837 written by Richard Owen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-08-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), comparative anatomist, colleague and later antagonist of Darwin, and head of the British Museum of Natural History, was a major figure in Victorian science. Yet historians of science have found Owen a difficult subject, in part because he chose not to expound his views in a major theoretical work but rather presented them through annual lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1837 to 1856. Nevertheless, Owen's views on the nature of life, the relations of form and function, the meaning of fossils, and the development of species gave his contemporaries such as Lyell, Grant, Huxley, Whewell, and Darwin a set of positions with which they could agree or disagree while developing their own views. Now, for the first time, modern readers how access to the opening series of Owen's Hunterian Lectures, in which he set out the larger framework of the theoretical reflections that occupied him during the next nineteen years. Presented to the public in the two months before Darwin began his first notebook on the species question, these lectures reveal the nature of the synthesis of French, German, and British biology taking place in metropolitan London in this crucial period in nineteenth-century life science. Phillip Reid Sloan has transcribed and edited the seven surviving lectures and has written an introduction and commentary situating the work in the context of Owen's life and the scientific and intellectual life of the time. Sloan pays particular attention to Owen's early relations to the German scientific and philosophical tradition, and in this respect contributes to an understanding of the relations between science and British Romanticism. In the lectures, Owen surveys the history of comparative anatomy up to his time and develops his views on the nature of life, species duration, physiological function, and the relation between embryology and classification. One can see the degree to which transcendental anatomy and the views of Von Baer, Johannes Müller, E. G. St.-Hilaire, and Cuvier were current in London in the late 1830s. -- from back cover.

The Life of Richard Owen

Author : Rev. Richard Owen
Publisher : Gregg Revivals
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Richard Owen written by Rev. Richard Owen and published by Gregg Revivals. This book was released on 1894 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Impeccable Spy

Author : Owen Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408857804
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book An Impeccable Spy written by Owen Matthews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARRÉ Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World War, he became a fanatical communist – and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Combining charm with ruthless manipulation, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society. His intelligence proved pivotal to the Soviet counter-offensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war itself. Drawing on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives, this is a major biography of one of the greatest spies who ever lived.

The Life of Richard Owen by His Grandson the Rev. Richard Owen,...with the Scientific Portions

Author : Richard Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Richard Owen by His Grandson the Rev. Richard Owen,...with the Scientific Portions written by Richard Owen and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard Owen

Author : Patrick Armstrong
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789148235
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Richard Owen written by Patrick Armstrong and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-06-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the provocative nineteenth-century English naturalist. Brilliant, hard-working, and immensely productive, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great ambassador for science and played an outsized role in shaping London’s Natural History Museum. Still, Owen was a provocative bully, accused of plagiarism, and the only man Charles Darwin claimed to hate since Owen staunchly opposed his ideas about natural selection despite sharing similar views himself. This biography gives an account of Owen’s life and work and offers some speculation about the reasons behind his controversial behavior and strained relationships.