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Hugo de Vries was born in 1848 in the Netherlands.
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Hugo's father, Gerrit de Vries becomes Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
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Hugo majored botany at the Leiden University.
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de Vries Spent alot of his time at the University of Amserdam, where he carried out most of his work.
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de Vries finds out about Mendel's work, and changes some of his terminology to match Mendel's.
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de Vries was best known for his work on mutation. He published his work in The Mutation Theory. (1990-1903)
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De Vries dies in 1935.
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Richard Dawkins was born in Nairobi, Kenya, March 26th 1941.
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Dawkins graduated from Balliol Collage in 1962. He studied Zoology and was tutored by Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Vietnam war. Richard Dawkins was strongly opposed to this and was involved in serval anti-war demonstrations.
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Richard Dawkins carried out most of his major work at the University of Oxford.
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The Selfish Gene. "All life evolves by the differental survival of replicating entities".
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The Extended Phenotype. In this, Dawkins describes the process of Natural Selection as "The process whereby replicators out-propagate each other".
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Dawkins married Lalla Ward.
