6 SCIENCE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW
ny terriblyadvanced conclusions later, a fraugrieved t again.
In 1825, aged just ty-one, Oo London and soon after o ensive, but disordered, collections ofmedical and anatomical specimens. Most of t to titution by Joer, a distinguisireless collector of medical curiosities, but alogued or organized, largely because ter er’s death.
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But it means “terrible lizard” and name. Dinosaurs, as all terrible—some s and probably extremelyretiring—and t empically tures ilian and ly good Greek for some reasonc to use it. Anoty of specimens at time) dinosaurs constitute not one but tiles: the lizard-hipped saurischians.
O an attractive person, in appearance or in temperament. A pogrape middle years s and sinister, like torianmelodrama, o frig scruple in tions. o e. Even Owen’s son (wer killed o able coldness of .”
ed gifts as an anatomist allo a barefaceddisies. In 1857, turalist t. ion ofCory Oed as Professor ofComparative Anatomy and P t Sc ion al error, old t tion o them by Dr.
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