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  2. Elizabeth Robertson - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Jane Robertson CBE FRS MAE is a British developmental biologist based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. [1] She is Professor of Developmental Biology [2] at Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. [3]

  3. Department of Biology, University of Oxford - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Biology, established in 2022, is a science department in the University of Oxford's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. [1] It was formed on 1 August 2022 [ 2 ] after a merger between the Department of Plant Sciences and Department of Zoology .

  4. Oxford Dictionary of Biology - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Dictionary of Biology (often abbreviated to ODB) is a multiple editions dictionary published by the English Oxford University Press. With more than 5,500 entries, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it contains comprehensive information in English on topics relating to biology , biophysics , and biochemistry . [ 3 ]

  5. 1860 Oxford evolution debate - Wikipedia

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    The 1860 Oxford evolution debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, on 7 July 1860, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. [1] Several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated, including Thomas Henry Huxley , Bishop Samuel Wilberforce , Benjamin Brodie ...

  6. The Selfish Gene - Wikipedia

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    In 1976, the ecologist Arthur Cain, one of Dawkins's tutors at Oxford in the 1960s, called it a "young man's book" (which Dawkins points out was a deliberate quote of a commentator on the New College, Oxford [a] philosopher A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)). Dawkins noted that he had been "flattered by the comparison, [but] knew ...

  7. Robert May, Baron May of Oxford - Wikipedia

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    Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, [8] and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London.

  8. W. D. Hamilton - Wikipedia

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    Hamilton was born in 1936 in Cairo, Egypt, the second of seven children.His parents were from New Zealand; his father A.M. Hamilton was an engineer, and his mother B.M. Hamilton was a physician.

  9. Tree of life (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Edward Hitchcock's fold-out paleontological chart in his 1840 Elementary Geology. Although tree-like diagrams have long been used to organise knowledge, and although branching diagrams known as claves ("keys") were omnipresent in eighteenth-century natural history, it appears that the earliest tree diagram of natural order was the 1801 "Arbre botanique" (Botanical Tree) of the French ...