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Born August 21, 1826 • Würzburg • Germany
Died June 14, 1903 (aged 76) • Heidelberg • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1896)
Notable Works “Elements of Comparative Anatomy”
Subjects Of Study comparative anatomy • evolution

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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
William Hewson
English physiologist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist