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Karl Beurlen

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German paleontologist

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According to Wikipedia, Karl Beurlen was a German paleontologist. Beurlen was born in Aalen. He attended University of Tübingen. He completed a PhD in 1923. Beurlen was a proponent of orthogenesis and saltational evolution. He used the term metakinesis to describe sudden changes of development in organisms. He also invented the term palingenesis as a mechanism for his orthogenetic theory of evolution.

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