Polar bear skeletal system. From Richard Owen, On the Anatomy of the Vertebrates (1866). A comparative anatomist and paleontologist who coined the term “dinosaur” Owen supported the theory of evolution but was critical of natural selection as its mechanism.
Featured on PDR in the essay Darwin’s Polar Bear
Musings upon the whys and wherefores of polar bears, particularly in relation to their forest-dwelling cousins, played an important but often overlooked role in the development of evolutionary theory. Michael Engelhard explores.
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Polar Bear Skeletal System
Date
1866
From
On the Anatomy of the Vertebrates
