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Pearl, Raymond (1879–1940)

US biologist. From 1925 he was director of the Institute for Biological Research at Johns Hopkins University. He is chiefly known for his work on heredity. His publications include Variation and Differentiation in Ceratophyllum (1907), Modes of Research in Genetics (1915), Studies in Human Biology (1924), and The National History of Population (1939).

Pearl was born in Farmington, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1899, and gained his PhD at the University of Michigan in 1902. He also studied at Leipzig and London universities. Among his other publications are The Nation's Food (1919), The Biology of Death (1922), Introduction to Medical Biometry and Statistics (1923), The Biology of Population Growth (1925), Alcohol and Longevity (1926), To Begin With (1927), and The Rate of Living (1928).



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