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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Beneden, Edouard van
Edouard van Beneden
Belgian embryologist and cytologist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist
Gustave-Adolphe Thuret
French botanist
Oskar Hertwig
German biologist