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Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
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George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
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Paul Sereno
American paleontologist
Sir Richard Owen
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
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Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist
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John Ostrom
American paleontologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
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Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
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Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
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James Hall
American geologist
Orbigny, engraving
Alcide Dessalines d’ Orbigny
French paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist