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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
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Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
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Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist
Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist
William W. Howells
American anthropologist
Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist
Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist
Davidson Black
Canadian anthropologist
Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Flower, 1883
Sir William Henry Flower
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Kenneth Oakley
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Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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Marcellin Boule
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