Osborn, Henry Fairfield

1857–1935 American evolutionary biologist and powerful, long-time head of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Keywords: evolution; human evolution; American Museum of Natural History; dinosaurs

 Further Reading
    book Osborn HF (1910) The Age of Mammals. New York: Macmillan.
    book Osborn HF (1915) Men of the Old Stone Age. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    book Osborn HF (1927) Man Rises to Parnassus. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Regal, Brian(Apr 2001) Osborn, Henry Fairfield. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003563]