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Buffon, Georges, Comte de (1707-1788) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Buffon.html

French naturalist who became keeper of the French botanical gardens. At first, he believed in Leibniz's Law of Continuity and disagreed with Linnaeus's system of nomenclature, maintaining that a species was an artificial category. He changed his mind, however, when he found that the offspring of some plant hybridizations were sterile. He proposed identifying species through their reproductive histories, with two animals belonging to the same species if they can produce fertile offspring.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon - English
URL: http://www.turnpike.net/~mscott/buffon.htm

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"Born in 1707, Georges Buffon debunked many of the misguided and often mean-spirited views of his contemporaries. In the 20th century, a few holdouts still hotly debate the possibility that humans evolved from apes, yet in Buffon's day, people looked at the situation differently."

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Buffon - Italian
URL: http://www.emscuola.org/iti_lst/storia_della_scienza/personaggi/Bio/buffon.htm

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La biografia.

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