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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Roger Arliner Young
Roger Arliner Young
American zoologist and social activist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
At home with the elephants
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
English zoologist
Richard Dawkins wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, standing in front of a red background at an event.
Richard Dawkins
British biologist and writer
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
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Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist
Flannery, Tim
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist

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