Carl Gans (7 September 1923 – 30 November 2009) was a German-born American zoologist and herpetologist.[1] He and Glen Northcutt proposed the provocative theory of "new head theory",[2][3] opened up evolutionary developmental biology as a new discipline.
From 1947 to 1955 Gans worked as an engineer.[1] From 1957 to 1958 he was a Fellow in Biology at the University of Florida. From 1958 to 1971 he taught biology at the State University of New York, Buffalo. From then on he was Professor of Biology at the University of Michigan.[1] He retired in 1988.[4] In 1997 he moved to Austin (Texas) where he had an adjunct position at The University of Texas. [5] Gans was editor of the Biology of the Reptilia a 23-volume work published from 1969 to 2009.[4]
Taxa described by Gansedit
Working in the scientific field of herpetology, Gans described 22 new species of reptiles,[6] and 4 new species of amphibians.[7]
^ abcdefBeolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Gans", p. 97).
^Manzanares, Miguel; Nieto, M. Ángela (27 March 2003). "A Celebration of the New Head and an Evaluation of the New Mouth". Neuron. 37 (6): 895–898. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00161-2. ISSN 0896-6273.
^Gans, Carl; Northcutt, R. Glenn (15 April 1983). "Neural Crest and the Origin of Vertebrates: A New Head". Science. 220 (4594): 268–273. doi:10.1126/science.220.4594.268. ISSN 0036-8075.
^ abcde"Carl Gans, Obituary". The New York Times. Legacy.com.
^"About Carl | Gans Collections and Charitable Fund".
^"Gans". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^"Gans". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History.
^Species Nessia gansi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further readingedit
Adler, Kraig (2010). "Carl Gans (1923–2009) and the Integrative Biology of Reptiles". Herpetological Review41 (2): 142–144.
Bauer, Aaron M. (2010). "Reminiscenses of Carl Gans". Herp. Rev.41 (2): 147–148.
Bell, Christopher J. (2010). "Carl Gans: The Austin Years 1997–2009". Herp. Rev.41 (2): 148–150.
Northcutt, R. Glenn (2010). "Carl Gans: The Ann Arbor Years". Herp. Rev.41 (2): 147.
Rosenberg, Herb (2010). "Carl Gans: The Buffalo Years of 1961–1967". Herp. Rev.41 (2): 144–147.
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