Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s unheralded codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, found inspiration in the specimens he collected on his travels.
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A sharp-eyed fossil prospector and self-taught paleontologist, Mary Anning discovered several extraordinary Mesozoic marine reptiles.
A master of topographical anatomy, Christian Wilhelm Braune produced accurate colored lithographs from cross sections of the human body.
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Irving Geis’s revolutionary painting of sperm whale myoglobin illuminated the nascent field of protein structure.
The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
Early 20th century cross circulation experiments on dogs paved the way for milestones in human cardiac surgery.
From accounts of deformed animals to scratch-and-sniff technology, Robert Boyle's early contributions to the Royal Society of London were prolific and wide ranging.
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