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Word: endoderm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memory of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), who is probably better known to the average U.S. undergraduate today as a character in a ribald polysyllabic ditty beginning: Recent exhaustive researches By Darwin and Huxley and Hall . . . than as the biologist who first generalized upon the development of ectoderm and endoderm, who "freed British scientific thought from its vice of deductive reasoning," who interpreted, clarified, broadened the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Medal | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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