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Jenny Clack

1947 - 2020

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Jennifer Alice Clack, (née Agnew; 3 November 1947 – 26 March 2020) was an English palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist. She specialised in the early evolution of tetrapods, specifically studying the "fish to tetrapod" transition: the origin, evolutionary development and radiation of early tetrapods and their relatives among the lobe-finned fishes. She is best known for her book Gaining Ground: the Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods, published in 2002 (second edition, 2012) and written with the layperson in mind. Clack was curator at the Museum of Zoology and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Cambridge, where she devoted her career to studying the early development of tetrapods, the "four-legged" animals said to have evolved from Devonian lobe-finned fishes and colonised the freshwater swamps of the Carboniferous period. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jenny Clack is the 911th most popular biologist (up from 1,073rd in 2019), the 4,136th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,311th in 2019) and the 145th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jenny Clack ranks 911 out of 1,097. Before her are Louis Fraser, Joseph Banks Rhine, Joseph Barcroft, Keith Campbell, Carl H. Eigenmann, and Stanley Norman Cohen. After her are Edward Newton, Janet Rowley, François Gagnepain, Robert Wight, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, and Joshua Brookes.

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Among people born in 1947, Jenny Clack ranks 583. Before her are Abdulhashim Mutalov, Firmine Richard, Andrea Martin, Hubert Védrine, Ntare V of Burundi, and James Rumbaugh. After her are Erika Lechner, Ian Ashley, Maurice Martens, Arkady Andreasyan, Deanie Ip, and Ryo Kawasaki. Among people deceased in 2020, Jenny Clack ranks 502. Before her are Gérard Mulumba Kalemba, Pedro Nájera, Eddy Pieters Graafland, Eppie Wietzes, John Lyons, and Hadi Dahane. After her are Gianfranco Terenzi, Rossana Rossanda, Boris Gaganelov, Ardico Magnini, Roman Viktyuk, and Victor Chizhikov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jenny Clack ranks 4,137 out of 8,785. Before her are Natalia Tena (1984), Edith Sitwell (1887), Bernard Bosanquet (1848), Brian Lumley (1937), Kenney Jones (1948), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771). After her are Joe Cole (1988), Tony Barton (1937), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), Barbara Thompson (1944), Jon Amiel (1948), and Janet Montgomery (1985).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Jenny Clack ranks 145. Before her are William Townsend Aiton (1766), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Louis Fraser (1810), Joseph Barcroft (1872), and Keith Campbell (1954). After her are Edward Newton (1832), Robert Wight (1796), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856), Thomas Thomson (1817), and Thomas Pennant (1726).

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