• Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded...
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  • cricketer Gavin de Beer (1899–1972), British evolutionary embryologist Gerhard de Beer (born 1994), South African football player Hans de Beer [de; no; rm]...
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  • Catholic theologian Gavin DeBartolo (born 1982), Australian rugby union player Gavin de Becker (born 1954), American writer Gavin de Beer (1899–1972), British...
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    times, St Michael's Mount may have been a port for the tin trade, and Gavin de Beer made a case for it to be identified with the "tin port" Ictis/Ictin...
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    role in the evolutionary synthesis. Another important disciple was Gavin de Beer, who wrote on evolution and development, and became director of the...
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    was introduced by Ernst Haeckel in 1875 and given its modern sense by Gavin de Beer in 1930. The concept of heterochrony was introduced by the German zoologist...
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    tin was found overseas, somewhere in, off, or near Western Europe. Gavin de Beer has suggested that Roger Dion had solved the puzzle by bringing to bear...
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    and could have been a general name for a peninsula there. In 1960, Gavin de Beer concluded that the most likely location of Iktin (the form of the name...
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    helplessness. Furthermore, this "prematuration" is specifically human. Gavin de Beer and Stephen Jay Gould wrote about him and further developed this theory...
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    Hannibal (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    247–183 BC, pp. 89–91, 2003 De Beer, Sir Gavin (1969). Hannibal: Challenging Rome's Supremacy pp. 112–113. De Beer, Sir Gavin (1969). Hannibal: Challenging...
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