Îñáîðí
Ãåíðè Ôåðôèëä – Osborn
Henry Fairfield (1857–1935)
Àìåðèêàíñêèé ïàëåîíòîëîã è ýâîëþöèîíèñò, ïðîôåññîð
Ïðèíñòîíñêîãî (1882–1890) è Êîëóìáèéñêîãî (1891) óíèâåðñèòåòîâ, ïðåçèäåíò
Àìåðèêàíñêîãî ìóçåÿ åñòåñòâåííîé èñòîðèè (1908–1933), èíîñòðàííûé
÷ëåí-êîððåñïîíäåíò ÀÍ ÑÑÑÐ (1923).
Èñòîðè÷åñêàÿ áèîãåîãðàôèÿ êðóïíûõ ïîçâîíî÷íûõ. Ó÷èòûâàÿ,
÷òî â òå÷åíèå ïî÷òè âñåãî ïàëåîçîÿ, ìåçîçîÿ è êàéíîçîÿ Öåíòðàëüíàÿ Àçèÿ íå
ïîêðûâàëàñü ìîðåì, ñ÷èòàë ýòó îáëàñòü öåíòðîì ýâîëþöèè ìíîãèõ ãðóïï íàçåìíûõ
ïîçâîíî÷íûõ. Ïðåäëîæèë îðèãèíàëüíóþ ýâîëþöèîííóþ êîíöåïöèþ àðèñòîãåíåçà (ñì.:
Ðàóòèàí, 1988). Àâòîð ïîíÿòèÿ "àäàïòèâíàÿ ðàäèàöèÿ".
Îñíîâíûå òðóäû:
• Osborn H.F. From the Greeks
to Darwin; an outline of the development of the evolution idea. – N. Y.
; L. : Macmillan and Co., 1894. – x, 259 p. [2-å èñïð. è äîï.
èçä. – N.Y.; L. : C. Scribner’s Sons, 1929. – xvi, 398 p.]
• Osborn H.F. Osborn H.F.
Correlation between Tertiary mammal horizons of Europe and America; an
introduction to the more exact investigation of tertiary zoogeography.
Preliminary study // Ann. NewYork Acad. Sci. 1899. Vol. 13, art. 1. P.
1–64.
• Osborn H.F. The law of
adaptive radiation // Amer. Nat. 1902. Vol. 34. P. 353–363.
• Osborn H.F. Evolution as it
appears to the paleontologist // Science. New. Ser. 1907. Vol. 25, N
674. P. 744–749.
• Osborn H.F. The age of
mammals in Europe, Asia and North America. – N. Y. : The Macmillan Co.,
1910. – xvii, 635 p.
• Osborn H.F. Review of the
Pleistocene of Europe, Asia and northern Africa // Ann. New York Acad.
Sci., 1915. Vol. 26, art. 5. P. 215–315.
• Osborn H.F. The origin and
evolution of life : on the theory of reaction and interaction of energy.
– N. Y. : C. Scribner's Sons, 1917. – xxxi, 322 p.
• Osborn H.F. Proboscidea. A
monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the
mastodonts and elephants of the world / ed. M.R. Percy. N.Y. : Amer.
Mus. Press. Vol. 1. – 1936. – P. 761–802 ; Vol. 2. – 1942. – P.
805–1676.
Áèáëèîãðàôèÿ:
• Fifty-two years of research, observation
and publication, 1877–1929; a life adventure in breadth and depth, by
Henry Fairfield Osborn ... / Ed. F. Milligan. – N. Y. : C. Scribner's
Sons, 1930. – xii, 160 p.
•
Rainger R. An agenda for antiquity :
Henry
Fairfield
Osborn
and vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History,
1890–1935.
Tuscaloosa : Univ. Alabama Press, 1991. –
xiii, 360 p.