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Born November 24, 1863 • Ohio • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died November 21, 1952 (aged 88) • Princeton • New Jersey • (Died on this day)
Subjects Of Study cell division • evolution • ovum • human being

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William Bateson
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Charles Darwin
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Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
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Lynn Margulis
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Ernst Mayr
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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August Weismann
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