Edward Forbes

Edward Forbes
1815 - 1854
Edward Forbes  British Scientist
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Edward Forbes is a member of the following lists: Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, Fellows of the Royal Society and Manx people.

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First Name Edward
Last Name Forbes
Birthday 12th February, 1815
Birthplace Douglas, Isle of Man
Died 18th November, 1854
Place of Death Wardie, Edinburgh
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Nationality British
Occupation Scientist

Professor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age. This mechanism, which was the first natural explanation to explain the distributions of the same species on now-isolated islands and mountain tops, was discovered independently by Charles Darwin, who credited Forbes with the idea. He also incorrectly deduced, the so-called azoic hypothesis, that life under the sea would decline to the point that no life forms could exist below a certain depth.

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