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Also Known As François-Louis-Paul Gervais
Born September 26, 1816 • Paris • France
Died February 10, 1879 (aged 62) • Paris • France
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède
French naturalist and politician
Yves Delage
French zoologist
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French zoologist
Félix Dujardin
French biologist
René Jeannel
French biologist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Latreille, detail of an engraving after a portrait, 1823
Pierre-André Latreille
French zoologist
Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
Guillaume Rondelet
French naturalist
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
British biologist and writer

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