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Born October 13, 1796 • Lund • Sweden
Died April 18, 1860 (aged 63) • Stockholm • Sweden
Subjects Of Study skull • human being
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William W. Howells
American anthropologist
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Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
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Herophilus
Alexandrian physician
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Keith
Scottish anthropologist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
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Magnus Gustaf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist
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Conrad Taeuber
American sociologist
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Irene Barnes Taeuber
American sociologist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Malthus
English economist and demographer
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
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René Laënnec
French physician
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Daniel Lieberman
Daniel Lieberman
American paleoanthropologist