Carl Frederick Abel Pantin

Carl Frederick Abel Pantin was a British zoologist, born on 30 March 1899 and died on 14 January 1967. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Christs College, Cambridge. He won the Trail Medal of the Linnean Society in 1937, the year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and received one of its Royal Medals in 1950. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1958 to 1961 and won the Linnean Medal, jointly with Richard E. Holttum, in 1964. He was Professor of Zoology at Cambridge University from 1959 to 1966 and president of the Marine Biological Association from 1960 to 1966. In 1965 he postulated the existence of multiple universes, from which ours had been selected on a principle analogous to natural selection, an early anticipation of the anthropic principle, a line of thought sometimes called Cosmo-Darwinism.