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Key People

Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
William Henry Flower
William Henry Flower
British zoologist
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
Edward Tyson
English physician
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Karl Gegenbaur.
Karl Gegenbaur
German anatomist
Agnes Arber
British botanist

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