Eugene Kornel Balon (,Kaszper, Kazimierz. ''Dysydent mimo woli''. Zwrot 9/2007, 42.-44. ; 1 August 1930 – 4 September 2013)Obituary at LifeNews.ca
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ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...

Biography

Balon was born on 1 August 1930 in

Orlová Orlová (; , ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. The town is struggling with structural problems and is infamously known as the worst town to live in in the Czech ...

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. He went to the Polish High School in Orlová, where he took his A levels in 1949. From 1953 to 1967 he worked in the

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where he studied the endemic fauna of

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. From 1967 to 1967 he was a

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expert in

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. After 1976, he was a teacher on the

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. He died on 4 September 2013 in

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, at the age of 83. Two species of fishes were named after him:

Balon's ruffe Balon's ruffe (''Gymnocephalus baloni''), also known as the Danube ruffe, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a ruffe, from the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized ...

(''Gymnocephalus baloni'') and '' Tilapia baloni''.

Publications

* Balon, E. K. (1979)
"The theory of saltation and its application in the ontogeny of fishes: steps and thresholds"
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Environmental Biology of Fishes ''Environmental Biology of Fishes'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on all aspects of fish and fish-related biology, and the links to their environment. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media and was establishe ...

''. 4 (2): 97–101. * ———— (2001)
"Saltatory Ontogeny and the Life-History Model: Neglected Processes and Patterns of Evolution"
''Journal of Bioeconomics''. 3 (1): 1–26. * ———— (2002)
"Epigenetic Processes, when Natura Non Facit Saltum Becomes a Myth, and Alternative Ontogenies a Mechanism of Evolution"
''Environmental Biology of Fishes''. 65 (1): 1–35. * ———— (2004)
"Evolution by epigenesis: Farewell to Darwinism, Neo-and Otherwise"
'' Rivista di Biologia-Biology Forum''. 97: 269–312.

Biography

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