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Born 1866 • Shizuoka • Japan
Died 1944 (aged 78) • Tokyo • Japan
Subjects Of Study jellyfish • evolution
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Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
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Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
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August Weismann
German biologist
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William Bateson
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Conklin, Edwin Grant
Edwin Grant Conklin
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Ōmura Satoshi
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