Louis Bolk
Louis ( Lodewijk ) Bolk ( born December 10, 1866 in Overschie, † June 17, 1930 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician and anatomist.
Life and work
In 1898, two years after completing his studies, Louis Bolk was appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Amsterdam. Major works by him focused on the evolution of man. He is the author was later taken up by Adolf Portmann retardation and Fötalisationstheorie (see Physiological premature birth ), which held back the people in relation to the other primates in some essential anatomical features, retarded, of course. A prominent example of this form of neoteny is the morphological relationship of the human skull for the young and the adult chimpanzee skull, another example is the pattern of body hair.
Honor
After Louis Bolk Bolk Instituut, Louis, a private scientific research institute, is named in the Netherlands.
Works (excerpt)
- Overlay, shift and tilt of the foramen magnum to the skull of the primates, Zeitschr. Morphol. Anatomist. 17/1915 pp. 611-692.
- The problem of the Incarnation, Jena 1926
- Manual of comparative anatomy of vertebrates, L. Bolk et al., 1937