1804–1892 English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who founded the British Museum (Natural History).
Keywords: comparative anatomy; vertebrate palaeontology; vertebrate archetype; Darwinian conflict; natural history museums
Owen, Richard
Nicolaas A Rupke, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002450
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Figure 1. Richard Owen (1804–1892).
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| Further Reading | |
| book Owen R (1840–1845) Odontography; or, a Treatise on the Comparative Anatomy of the Teeth; their Physiological Relations, Mode of Development, and Microscopic Structure, in the Vertebrate Animals, 2 vols. London: Baillière. | |
| book Owen R (1848) On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton. London: Van Voorst. | |
| book Owen R (1862) On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History. London: Saunders, Otley. | |
| book Desmond A (1989) The Politics of Evolution. Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Gruber JW and Thackray JC (1992) Richard Owen Commemoration. London: Natural History Museum Publications. | |
| book Owen, Rev. R (1894) The Life of Richard Owen, 2 vols, London: John Murray. | |
| Richards E (1987) A question of property rights: Richard Owen's evolutionism reassessed. British Journal for the History of Science 20: 129–171. | |
| book Rupke NA (1994) Richard Owen. Victorian Naturalist. New Haven, CT: Yale. | |
| book Sloan PR (ed.) (1992) Richard Owen. The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy May–June, 1837. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
