The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle ... to a brilliant young anatomist back in London named Richard Owen, an up-and-coming authority on extinct mammals.

Glossotherium was first described by Richard Owen based on a partial skull collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. Owen noticed a cavity in the base of the skull, which he concluded ...

Sir Richard Owen was the leading comparative anatomist and palaeontologist ... Owen was a contemporary of Charles Darwin and known for his strong opposition to Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was one of the most famous comparative ... in science and was famed for feuding with scientific contemporaries, most notably Charles Darwin. From this observation and ...