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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
American geneticist and biologist
Matthew, Patrick
Patrick Matthew
Scottish landowner and agriculturalist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Edmund Brisco Ford
British population geneticist