Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen  (20 Juli 1804 – 18 Desember 1892) adalah seorang biologis, anatomis komparatif dan paleontologis. Disamping seorang figur kontroversial, Owen umumnya dikenal sebagai naturalis menarik dengan hadiah luar biasanya karena menginterpretasikan fosil-fosil.

Biografi 
Owen lahir di Lancaster pada 1804, sebagai salah satu dari enam bersaudara dari seorang padagang Hindia Barat yang bernama Richard Owen (1754–1809). Ibunya, Catherine Parrin, merupakan keturunan dari Huguenot dan ia dididik di Lancaster Royal Grammar School.

Daftar pustaka 
 Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832)
 Odontography (1840–1845)
 On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton (1848)
 History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols., 1849–1884)
 On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
 Palæontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations (1860)
 Archaeopteryx (1863)
 Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866) Image from
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 Volume I, Fishes and Reptiles
 Volume II, Birds and Mammals
 Volume III, Mammals
 Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations (1871)
 Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa (1876)
 Antiquity of Man as deduced from the Discovery of a Human Skeleton during Excavations of the Docks at Tilbury (1884)

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan 

 
 Amundson, Ron, (2007), The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo. New York: Cambridge University of Press.
 
 
 
 
 Cosans, Christopher, (2009), Owen's Ape & Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
 Desmond, Adrian & Moore, James (1991). Darwin. London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group. ISBN 0-7181-3430-3.
 Darwin, Francis, editor (1887). The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (7th Edition). London: John Murray.
 Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C., editors (1903). More letters of Charles Darwin: A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray.
 Huxley, Thomas H., (1861), "On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals", Natural History Review 1: 67–84.
 
 
 
 
 
 Richards, Evellen, (1987), "A Question of Property Rights: Richard Owen's Evolutionism Reassessed", British Journal of the History of Science, 20: 129–171.
 Rupke, Nicolaas, (1994), Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist. New Haven: Yale University Press.
 Shindler, Karolyn. Richard Owen: the greatest scientist you've never heard of, The Telegraph, 16 December 2010. (accessed 16 December 2010)

Pranala luar 
 
 
 

Kelahiran 1804
Kematian 1892