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Born June 7, 1873 • Germany
Died July 11, 1948 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study evolution • Peking man • human being
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Monboddo, detail of an engraving by R. Stainier, late 18th century, after a portrait by J. Brown
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
Scottish jurist and anthropologist
Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Keith
Scottish anthropologist
Karl Gegenbaur.
Karl Gegenbaur
German anatomist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist
William W. Howells
American anthropologist
Davidson Black
Canadian anthropologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Flower, 1883
Sir William Henry Flower
British zoologist
Conklin, Edwin Grant
Edwin Grant Conklin
American biologist