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VolumeYearAuthorTitleReferences
1- Henry Fairfield Osborn From the Greeks to Darwin [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2- Arthur Willey Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates [6] [7]
3- Bashford Dean Fishes, Living and Fossil-
4- Edmund B. Wilson The Cell in Development and Heredity [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
5- William Keith Brooks The Foundations of Zoology [15] [16] [17]
6- Gary Nathan Calkins The Protozoa-
7- Thomas Hunt Morgan Regeneration-
8- Jacques Loeb The Dynamics of Living Matter [18] [19]

[20] [21] [22]

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9- William Morton Wheeler Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior [23] [24]

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