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Cyril Dean Darlington
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Born December 19, 1903 • Chorley • England
Died March 26, 1981 (aged 77)
Notable Works “The Evolution of Man and Society”
Subjects Of Study chromosome • crossing over • evolution • heredity • meiosis
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
Charles Benedict Davenport
American zoologist
Walther Flemming
German biologist
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American biologist
Sir Patrick Geddes
Scottish biologist and sociologist
Conklin, Edwin Grant
Edwin Grant Conklin
American biologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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