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Born April 23, 1901 • England • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died January 22, 1988 (aged 86) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study natural selection
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Alexander Gordon Bearn
British-born American physician and geneticist
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
American geneticist and biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
Muriel Wheldale Onslow
British biochemist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
American physicist
J.B.S. Haldane.
J.B.S. Haldane
British geneticist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Reginald Punnett
British geneticist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist

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