John Samuel Budgett
British zoologist and embryologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Samuel Budgett was a British zoologist and embryologist. He spent most of his short career on the genus Polypterus . This is found in the lakes, river margins, swamps, and floodplains of tropical central and western Africa and the Nile River system. Zoologists at the time wondered whether it was a bony fish, a cartilaginous fish, a lungfish or a primitive amphibian. Forty years after the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, zoologists were seeking to map the history of species and this primitive animal was a key part of the map. To find its place there, it was necessary to observe juvenile Polypterus in the wild. It took Budgett four African expeditions but in the end he succeeded in doing so.
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