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David Lack

1910 - 1973

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David Lambert Lack FRS (16 July 1910 – 12 March 1973) was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology, and ethology. His 1947 book, Darwin's Finches, on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landmark work as were his other popular science books on Life of the Robin and Swifts in a Tower. He developed what is now known as Lack's Principle which explained the evolution of avian clutch sizes in terms of individual selection as opposed to the competing contemporary idea that they had evolved for the benefit of species (also known as group selection). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Lack has received more than 73,530 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). David Lack is the 897th most popular biologist (down from 798th in 2019), the 4,836th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,468th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Lack ranks 897 out of 841. Before him are Samuel Garman, Wilhem de Haan, Leonhard Stejneger, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Pieter Willem Korthals, and John Claudius Loudon. After him are Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Charles Wallace Richmond, Ruth Patrick, Sydney Parkinson, Archibald Menzies, and Christian Drosten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, David Lack ranks 337. Before him are Bill Pickering, Chidambaram Subramaniam, Tyrus Wong, Freddie Wolff, Aldo Montano, and József Várszegi. After him are Ilona Massey, Charles Olson, Margaret Lindsay, Irene Sharaff, Hector Dyer, and Govan Mbeki. Among people deceased in 1973, David Lack ranks 238. Before him are François Bonlieu, Armando Segato, Mário de Noronha, Clarence White, Arthur Fadden, and William Inge. After him are Crane Wilbur, Lila Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Ernst Klodwig, Glenn Strange, and J. Carrol Naish.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Lack ranks 4,836 out of 7,765. Before him are Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), Montagu Love (1877), Paul McGuigan (1963), Joan Greenwood (1921), John Claudius Loudon (1783), and Terry Chimes (1956). After him are Kate O'Mara (1939), Des'ree (1968), Richard Greene (1918), Bob Crompton (1879), Giles Gilbert Scott (1880), and Jimmy Ross (1866).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, David Lack ranks 152. Before him are Charles Tate Regan (1878), Lancelot Hogben (1895), Alec Jeffreys (1950), William Kirby (1759), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), and John Claudius Loudon (1783). After him are Sydney Parkinson (1745), Archibald Menzies (1754), Thomas Pennant (1726), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), Edward Lhuyd (1660), and Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800).

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