Ambrosius Hubrecht
- Category : 1853-births
- Type : GP
- Profile : 1/4 - Investigating / Opportunist
- Definition : Split - Small (50,52,57,60)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Consciousness 1
Biography
Dutch zoologist whose most important work was in embryology and placentation of the mammals. In papers in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopial Science in 1883 and 1887 he put forth the theory—also held by Sir E. Ray Lankester—that the vertebrates originated in a Nemertine form, basing this on his discovery in the Nemertines of a continuous nerve sheath. The Descent of the Primates (1897) is the title under which were published his lectures at the sesquicentennial celebration at Princeton.
He died on 21 March 1915 in Utrecht, aged 62.