Robert Edmond Grant
Anatomist/zoologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPEd FRS FRSE FZS FGS was a British anatomist and zoologist. Life Grant was born at Argyll Square in Edinburgh , the son of Alexander Grant WS, and his wife, Jane Edmond. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University. Having obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1814, Grant gave up medical practice in favour of marine biology and the zoology of invertebrates, living on a legacy from his father. As a materialist and freethinker, and politically radical, he was open to ideas in biology that were considered subversive in the climate of opinion prevailing in Britain after the Napoleonic Wars. He cited Erasmus Darwin's Zoönomia in his doctoral dissertation, a work which introduced the idea of evolution in poetical form.
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