Richard Semon
German zoologist, explorer, evolutionary biologist and memory researcher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Wolfgang Semon (22 August 1859, in Berlin – 27 December 1918, in Munich) was a German zoologist, explorer, evolutionary biologist, a memory researcher who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics and applied this to social evolution. He is known for coining the terms engram and ecphory.