Carl Gans

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.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference EDR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.