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Charles Darwin
English naturalist renowned for his documentation of evolution and
for his theory of its operation, known as Darwinism. His evolutionary
theories, propounded chiefly in two works—On the Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man, and
Selection in Relation to Sex (1871). [ more...
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Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Dogs that Know When
Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
(1999) a sequel to his best-selling Seven Experiments that Could
Change the World (1994). [ more...
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Christian René de Duve
Belgian cytologist and biochemist who discovered lysosomes (the
digestive organelles of the cell) and peroxisomes (organelles that
are the site of metabolic processes involving hydrogen peroxide).
For this work he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
in 1974 with Albert Claude and George Palade. [ more...
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