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| Balfour, Francis Maitland |
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| 1851–82, Scottish embryologist; brother of A. J. Balfour. He was an early exponent of recapitulation. His Treatise on Comparative Embryology (2 vol., 1880–81) is a classic treatment of the evolution of the egg and embryo. Professor of animal morphology at Cambridge Univ., Balfour did research there and at the zoological station at Naples. |
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