Karl Beurlen
Karl Beurlen (17 April 1901 – 27 December 1985) was a German paleontologist.[1]
Beurlen was born in Aalen. He attended University of Tübingen. He completed a PhD in 1923.[2]
Beurlen was a proponent of orthogenesis and saltational evolution.[3] He used the term metakinesis (coined by Otto Jaekel) to describe sudden changes of development in organisms. He also invented the term palingenesis as a mechanism for his orthogenetic theory of evolution.[2]
He was an assistant of Edwin Hennig.[4]
He was a proponent of National Socialist ideology and wrote about the Aryan race.[1]
He was director of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Rieppel, Olivier (2012). "Karl Beurlen (1901–1985), Nature Mysticism, and Aryan Paleontology". Journal of the History of Biology. 45: 253–299. doi:10.1007/s10739-011-9283-7. JSTOR 41488453.
- ^ a b Levit, Georgy S.; Olsson, Lennart (2006). "'Evolution on Rails': Mechanisms and Levels of Orthogenesis" (PDF). Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology (11): 99–138. [pp. 115-119]
- ^ Bowden, A.J.; Gregory, F.J.; Henderson, A.S. (2013). Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development. Geological Society of London. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-86239-371-4.
- ^ Stindl, Reinhard (2014). "The telomeric sync model of speciation: species-wide telomere erosion triggers cycles of transposon-mediated genomic rearrangements, which underlie the saltatory appearance of nonadaptive characters". Naturwissenschaften. 101: 163–186. PMC 3935097.
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