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Who Was David Lambert Lack?
Born on July 16th, 1910 in London, David Lambert Lack is considered one of the pioneers of population biology. He who wrote many popular books on birds and their behavior, such as The Life of the Robin.
Much of what we know about robins is thanks to an amateur ornithologist called David Lack (1911-1973). In the 1930s, Lack, a school teacher in Dartington, South Devon, devoted his spare time to observing local robins. His study led to a classic work of natural history, “The Life Of The Robin”, published in 1943. –ICONS A Portrait of England
When he was twenty-eight, he spent an entire year in the Galapagos Islands, studying birds. He wrote Darwin’s Finches: An Essay on the General Biological Theory of Evolution, describing the14 specialized species of finch that evolved from an original invading flock of ordinary seed-eating finches.
From 1945 until 1973, when he passed away, David Lambert Lack was the director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford.
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