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Baer, Karl Ernst von
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A native of Esthonia; professor of zoology, first in Königsberg and then in St. Petersburg; the greatest of modern embryologists, styled the "father of comparative embryology"; the discoverer of the law, known by his name, that the embryo when developing resembles those of successively higher types (1792-1876).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Baer, Karl Ernst von'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/baer-karl-ernst-von.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.