Sir Richard OwenFRSKCB (20 Juli 1804 – 18 Desember 1892) adalah seorang biologis, anatomis komparatif dan paleontologis. Disamping seorang figur kontroversial, Owen umumnya dikenal sebagai naturalis menarik dengan hadiah luar biasanya karena menginterpretasikan fosil-fosil.
Biografi
Owen lahir di Lancaster pada 1804, sebagai salah satu dari enam bersaudara dari seorang padagang Hindia Barat yang bernama Richard Owen (1754–1809). Ibunya, Catherine Parrin, merupakan keturunan dari Huguenot dan ia dididik di Lancaster Royal Grammar School.
Daftar pustaka
Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832)
Odontography (1840–1845)
On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton (1848)
History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols., 1849–1884)
On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
Palæontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations (1860)
Cadbury, Deborah (2000). Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN0-8050-7087-7.
Collette, Joseph H., Gass, Kenneth C. & Hagadorn, James W. (2012). "Protichnites eremita unshelled? Experimental model-based neoichnology and new evidence for a euthycarcinoid affinity for this ichnospecies". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (3): 442–454. doi:10.1666/11-056.1.Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
Collette, Joseph H. & Hagadorn, James W. (2010). "Three-dimensionally preserved arthropods from Cambrian Lagerstatten of Quebec and Wisconsin". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (4): 646–667. doi:10.1666/09-075.1.Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
Cosans, Christopher, (2009), Owen's Ape & Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Darwin, Francis, editor (1887). The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (7th Edition). London: John Murray.
Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C., editors (1903). More letters of Charles Darwin: A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray.
Huxley, Thomas H., (1861), "On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals", Natural History Review 1: 67–84.
Owen, Richard (1852). "Description of the impressions and footprints of the Protichnites from the Potsdam sandstone of Canada". Geological Society of London Quarterly Journal. 8: 214–225. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1852.008.01-02.26.
Richards, Evellen, (1987), "A Question of Property Rights: Richard Owen's Evolutionism Reassessed", British Journal of the History of Science, 20: 129–171.
Rupke, Nicolaas, (1994), Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist. New Haven: Yale University Press.
