Lang, Arnold
Lang, Arnold
Born June 18, 1855, in Oftringen, Aargau; died Nov. 30, 1914, in Zürich. Swiss zoologist and specialist in the comparative anatomy of invertebrates.
Lang was a student of E. Haeckel. From 1878 to 1885 he studied various groups of marine invertebrates at a zoological station in Naples. In 1889 he became a professor at the University of Zürich. His principal works were on the comparative anatomy and phylogeny of worms. He was the author of a theory of the origin of turbellarians from Ctenophora and of annelids from Platyhelminthes. He also developed a hypothesis on the origin of the coelom and the circulatory system. A number of Lang’s works dealt with the influence of sessile life on the origin of asexual reproduction.
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Ü ber den Einfluss der festsitzenden Lebensweise auf die Tiere undü ber den Ursprung der Ungeschlechtlichen Fortpflanzung durch Teilung und Knospung Jena, 1888.Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbellosen Thiere. Jena, 1888–94.