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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
American geneticist and biologist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Sir Patrick Geddes
Scottish biologist and sociologist