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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
William Henry Flower
William Henry Flower
British zoologist
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Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Daubenton, detail of a bust by an unknown artist
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
French naturalist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
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Edward Tyson
English physician
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Karl Gegenbaur.
Karl Gegenbaur
German anatomist
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Agnes Arber
British botanist

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