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Sir Gavin de Beer

British zoologist

C.H. Waddington

British embryologist

Wilhelm Roux

German zoologist

Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Scottish zoologist

Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky

Russian embryologist

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