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Feb 09, 1868 Blackburn, England, United Kingdom Died on 23 Feb 1949 (aged 81)
British zoologist
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About Walter Garstang
- Walter Garstang FLS FZS (9 February 1868 – 23 February 1949), a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds, was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae.
- His best known works on marine larvae were his poems published as Larval Forms and Other Zoological Verses, especially The Ballad of the Veliger.
- They describe the form and function of several marine larvae as well as illustrating some controversies in evolutionary biology of the time.Garstang was known for his vehement opposition to Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law, now discredited.
- He is also noted for his hypothesis on chordate evolution, known as Garstang's theory, which suggests an alternative route for chordate evolution from echinoderms.
