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Nature 451, 631 (7 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/451631a; Published online 6 February 2008
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In Retrospect: Diagnosing deep similarity in nature
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BOOK REVIEWED-On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse
by Richard Owen
University of Chicago Press: 2007. 119 pp. $50 (hbk), $20 (pbk)
On the night of 9 February 1849, Richard Owen, the pre-eminent Victorian anatomist who later founded London's Natural History Museum, delivered a public lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In a strident discourse that set the stage for Charles Darwin's account of evolution, Owen revealed similarities in biological forms from species to species that suggested some underlying ideal plan or archetype.
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