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...

cricketer Gavin de Beer (1899–1972), British evolutionary embryologist Gerhard de Beer (born 1994), South African football player Hans de Beer [de; no; rm]...

after the type genus, Debeerius, which itself is named in honor of Gavin de Beer. Members of this family and order possess a large spine on the dorsal...

role in the evolutionary synthesis. Another important disciple was Gavin de Beer, who wrote on evolution and development, and became director of the...

Catholic theologian Gavin DeBartolo (born 1982), Australian rugby union player Gavin de Becker (born 1954), American writer Gavin de Beer (1899–1972), British...

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...

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...

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...

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...

helplessness. Furthermore, this "prematuration" is specifically human. Gavin de Beer and Stephen Jay Gould wrote about him and further developed this theory...