biography
pronunciation:
[belõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1517–64)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, born near Le Mans, NW France. He travelled in Asia Minor, Egypt, and Arabia, and wrote valuable treatises on trees, herbs, birds, and fishes. He was one of the first to establish the homologies between the skeletons of different vertebrates. |
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