Ray Lankester
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Image:Ray Lankester.png Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, FRS (May 15, 1847 - August 13, 1929) was a British zoologist.
Lankester was Jodrell Professor of Zoology at University College, London from 1874 to 1890 and Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University from 1891 to 1898, and was director of the Natural History Museum from 1898 to 1907. He was a founder in 1884 of the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth. Influential as teacher and writer on biological theories, comparative anatomy, and evolution, Lankester studied the protozoa, mollusca, and arthropoda. In 1880, Lankester wrote the social darwinist book: Degeneration a chapter in Darwinism.
He was knighted in 1907. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1913.
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