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Comparative Anatomy: Andreas Vesalius
Observation and Natural Theology: William Harvey & William Paley
Fossils and the Birth of Paleontology: Nicholas Steno
Nested Hierarchies, the Order of Nature: Carolus Linnaeus
Old Earth, Ancient Life: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The Ecology of Human Populations: Thomas Malthus

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