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Born November 30, 1831 • Stratford-upon-Avon • England
Died July 1, 1899 (aged 67) • London • England
Subjects Of Study mammal • comparative anatomy

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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Sir James Gray
British zoologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
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Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
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Richard Dawkins
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Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
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Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
British ethologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
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Sir Gavin de Beer
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Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 1930.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
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