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Born May 15, 1847 • London • England
Died August 15, 1929 (aged 82) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1913)
Subjects Of Study comparative anatomy • evolution • human being

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Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Monboddo, detail of an engraving by R. Stainier, late 18th century, after a portrait by J. Brown
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Francis Galton
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