Eugene Kornel Balon ( pl, Eugeniusz Kornel Bałon,Kaszper, Kazimierz. ''Dysydent mimo woli''. Zwrot 9/2007, 42.-44. cs, Evžen Kornel Balon; 1 August 1930 – 4 September 2013)Obituary at LifeNews.ca
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and Czech

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and

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, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

Biography

Balon was born on 1 August 1930 in

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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 Percidae which is native to the drainages of the Danube from delta to Germany and the Dnieper from delt ...

(''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 established ...

''. 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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