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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: John Ambrose Fleming, Laurence Binyon, Richard Owen, James Beattie, James Ellison, Geoff Taylor, J. L. Austin, Thomas Harrison, Ray Charnley, William Whewell, John Waite, Edward Frankland, Edmund Sharpe, Andy Haworth, Leonora Carrington, Jon Richardson, Matthew Hutton, John Wrathall, John Wayles, Marc Cayeux, Hugh Pennington, Robert Woof, Hubert Austin, Edward Graham Paley, Alan Warriner-Little, Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, Joe Abercrombie, Henry Cort, Jim Leytham, Michael Birkin, James Baynes, Roger Ainsworth, David Allison, Grahame Clarke, Steve Leonard, Steve Kemp, David Stewart, James Mansergh, Matthew Parkinson, Joanna David, Luke Scheybeler, Cherith Baldry, Thomas Edmondson, John Pinch, Brian Noble, Charles Austin Gardner, Sharpe, Paley and Austin, 19ninetynine, William Barton Worthington, Alex Smith, James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton, Richard Wadeson, Chris Acland, Ben Long, Alan Spavin, Norman Winn, Holly Ross, Bob Kellett, William Turner, James Anyon, Henry Paley, Matthew Smailes, Andy Wear, Edward Garnett, John Jackson, David Bulfield, Lancelot Dowbiggin. Excerpt: Sir Richard Owen, FRS KCB (20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred, but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's Origin. Owen's approach to evolution can be seen as having anticipated the issues that have gained greater attention with the recent emergence of evolutionary developmental biology. He was the driving force behind the establishment, in 1881, of the British Museum (Natural History) in London. Bill Bry...
