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Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Conklin, Edwin Grant
Edwin Grant Conklin
American biologist
Oskar Hertwig
German biologist

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