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About Edward Forbes
Edward Forbes FRS, FGS 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.
Everything about Edward Forbes →- Occupation
- botanist, zoologist, malacologist, microbiologist
- Position held
- President of the Geological Society of London, Regius Professor of Natural History
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 12, 1815, 1815
- Died
- November 18, 1854, 1854