taxonomy: Quick Facts
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Key People
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
Albert Spear Hitchcock
American botanist
Oka Asajirō
Japanese biologist
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Asa Gray
American botanist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
